An active three-way clustering method via low-rank matrices for multi-view data

In recent years, multi-view clustering algorithms have shown promising performance by combining multiple sources or views of datasets. A problem that has not been addressed satisfactorily is the uncertain relationship between an object and a cluster. Thus, this paper investigates an active three-way clustering method via low-rank matrices that can improve clustering accuracy as clustering proceeds for the multi-view data of high dimensionality. We adopt a three-way clustering representation to reflect the three types of relationships between an object and a cluster, namely, belong-to definitely, uncertain and not belong to definitely. We construct the consensus low-rank matrix from each weighted low-rank matrix by taking account of the diversity of views, and give the method to solve the optimization problem of objective function based on the improved augmented Lagrangian multiplier algorithm. We suggest an active learning strategy to learn important informative pairwise constraints after measuring the uncertainty of an object based on the entropy concept. The experimental results conducted on real-world datasets have validated the effectiveness of the proposed method. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.