arXiv:2601.18828cs.LGcs.AI2026-01

让人类通过调整视角和约束条件,实时优化高维数据的可视化聚类。

IPBC: An Interactive Projection-Based Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Semi-Supervised Clustering of High-Dimensional Data

  • 基于非线性投影与交互反馈,动态调整2D嵌入布局。
  • 少量交互步骤即可显著提升聚类质量,准确率明显改善。
  • 适合需要解释性、依赖人工经验的高维数据分析场景。

高维数据在科学与工业领域日益普遍,但因距离度量失效及降维后聚类坍缩或重叠,难以有效聚类。传统降维方法生成静态2D/3D嵌入,缺乏可解释性且无法融入分析者直觉。为此,我们提出交互式投影聚类(IPBC),将聚类重构为迭代的人机协同视觉分析过程。IPBC融合非线性投影模块与反馈环,允许用户通过调整视角、添加必须链接或不能链接约束来修改嵌入。这些约束重塑投影目标,逐步拉近语义相关点、推开无关点。随着嵌入结构化程度提高,基于优化后2D布局的传统聚类算法能更可靠地识别出清晰分组。额外可解释组件将每个聚类映射回原始特征空间,生成可解释规则或特征排序,揭示各簇差异。在多个基准数据集上的实验表明,仅需少量交互步骤即可显著提升聚类质量。总体而言,IPBC将聚类转变为机器表示与人类洞察相互强化的协作发现过程。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

High-dimensional datasets are increasingly common across scientific and industrial domains, yet they remain difficult to cluster effectively due to the diminishing usefulness of distance metrics and the tendency of clusters to collapse or overlap when projected into lower dimensions. Traditional dimensionality reduction techniques generate static 2D or 3D embeddings that provide limited interpretability and do not offer a mechanism to leverage the analyst's intuition during exploration. To address this gap, we propose Interactive Project-Based Clustering (IPBC), a framework that reframes clustering as an iterative human-guided visual analysis process. IPBC integrates a nonlinear projection module with a feedback loop that allows users to modify the embedding by adjusting viewing angles and supplying simple constraints such as must-link or cannot-link relationships. These constraints reshape the objective of the projection model, gradually pulling semantically related points closer together and pushing unrelated points further apart. As the projection becomes more structured and expressive through user interaction, a conventional clustering algorithm operating on the optimized 2D layout can more reliably identify distinct groups. An additional explainability component then maps each discovered cluster back to the original feature space, producing interpretable rules or feature rankings that highlight what distinguishes each cluster. Experiments on various benchmark datasets show that only a small number of interactive refinement steps can substantially improve cluster quality. Overall, IPBC turns clustering into a collaborative discovery process in which machine representation and human insight reinforce one another.

聚类人机交互可解释性降维

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