Xuewen Yang

Jiatai Wang, Zhiwei Xu, Xuewen Yang et al.

Incomplete Multi-View Clustering aims to enhance clustering performance by using data from multiple modalities. Despite the fact that several approaches for studying this issue have been proposed, the following drawbacks still persist: 1) It's difficult to learn latent representations that account for complementarity yet consistency without using label information; 2) and thus fails to take full advantage of the hidden information in incomplete data results in suboptimal clustering performance when complete data is scarce. In this paper, we propose Contrastive Incomplete Multi-View Image Clustering with Generative Adversarial Networks (CIMIC-GAN), which uses GAN to fill in incomplete data and uses double contrastive learning to learn consistency on complete and incomplete data. More specifically, considering diversity and complementary information among multiple modalities, we incorporate autoencoding representation of complete and incomplete data into double contrastive learning to achieve learning consistency. Integrating GANs into the autoencoding process can not only take full advantage of new features of incomplete data, but also better generalize the model in the presence of high data missing rates. Experiments conducted on \textcolor{black}{four} extensively-used datasets show that CIMIC-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art incomplete multi-View clustering methods.

Xuewen Yang

The interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications has seen unprecedented growth in the last few years. The success can be partly attributed to the advancements of deep neural networks made in the sub-fields of AI such as Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The promising research area that this dissertation focuses on is visual and language understanding which involves many challenging tasks, i.e., classification, detection, segmentation, machine translation and captioning, etc. The state-of-the-art methods for solving these problems usually involves only two parts: source data and target labels, which is rather insufficient especially when the dataset is small. Meanwhile, many external tools or sources can provide extra useful information (external knowledge) that can help improve the performance of these methods. For example, a detection model has been applied to provide better object features than state-of-the-art ResNet for image captioning models. Inspired by this observation, we developed a methodology that we can first extract external knowledge and then integrate it with the original models. The external knowledge has to be extracted from the dataset, or can directly come from external, e.g., grammar rules or scene graphs. We apply this methodology to different AI tasks, including machine translation and image captioning and improve the original state-of-the-art models by a large margin.