用确定性路径替代随机扩散,提升缺失视角聚类效果
Straight-Path Flow Matching for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

- 设计线性路径流匹配,直接连接可观测与缺失视图表示
- 在多个基准上达到新最优,显著优于现有生成式方法
- 适合处理视图缺失的多模态数据聚类任务
不完整多视图聚类(IMVC)旨在处理部分视图缺失的多模态数据聚类问题。现有端到端生成方法利用扩散模型通过随机噪声到数据的轨迹恢复缺失视图,但这类方法未显式考虑聚类目标,因从无关聚类的噪声初始化并依赖随机去噪过程。本文重新审视端到端生成式IMVC中的概率路径设计,提出一种基于直线路径流匹配的框架,以观测视图与缺失视图之间的线性插值路径替代扩散过程。理论分析表明,确定性微分方程流在传输机制上更契合聚类目标,尤其在有限步数下能更好保持类别条件分布和聚类一致性。基于此,构建端到端的IMVC架构,集成直线路径流匹配视图补全与层级聚类及熵对齐,强化跨视图聚类一致性。在标准IMVC基准上的大量实验表明,该框架取得新的最先进性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Incomplete Multi-View Clustering addresses the problem of clustering multi-modal data when certain views are missing. Recent end-to-end generative approaches leverage diffusion models to recover missing views via stochastic noise-to-data trajectories. While expressive, such mechanisms are not explicitly designed for clustering, as they initialize from cluster-agnostic noise and rely on stochastic denoising dynamics. In this work, we revisit probability path design in end-to-end generative IMVC. We introduce a flow-matching framework with a linear interpolation path between paired view representations, that replaces diffusion with probability flows between observed and missing views. We provide a formal analysis showing that deterministic ODE flows are inherently better aligned with clustering objectives than diffusion-based stochastic trajectories, especially in terms of transport mechanisms that respect class-conditional data distributions and maintain cluster consistency in finite-step regimes. Building upon this insight, we develop an end-to-end IMVC architecture that integrates straight-path flow-matching view completion with cluster-level and entropy-based alignment to enforce cross-view clustering consistency. Extensive experiments on standard IMVC benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed framework establishes new state-of-the-art performance.
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