Structure-Aware Conditional Diffusion Generation for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

doi:10.1109/TKDE.2026.3673320

Structure-Aware Conditional Diffusion Generation for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

2026-03-12

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DOI：10.1109/TKDE.2026.3673320

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Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) has attracted increasing attention in recent years, owing to the prevalence of missing data in real-world multi-view scenarios. Existing imputation-based IMVC methods partially mitigate the impact of missing information but still face three key limitations: (i) overlooking latent structural relationships among samples, which leads to imputed representations deviating from the true distribution; (ii) decoupling imputation from clustering, which reduces the discriminability of the recovered representations; and (iii) exhibiting low efficiency, which makes it difficult to balance recovery quality and inference speed under complex missing scenarios. To address these issues, we propose a Structure-Aware Conditional Diffusion Generation (SACDG) framework. During training, SACDG first models local structural relationships via adaptive neighborhood graphs and injects them as conditional priors into the diffusion model, where a cross-attention mechanism integrates these priors into the noise prediction process to learn structure-aware generative capability. Meanwhile, a semantic distribution alignment module is introduced to leverage pseudo-labels for enforcing cross-view consistency, thereby enhancing semantic discriminability. During inference, SACDG integrates cross-view structural information through cross-view adjacency fusion to guide the reverse denoising trajectory, and employs deterministic DDIM sampling to efficiently and stably recover the representations of missing views. Extensive comparative experiments and ablation studies on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that SACDG achieves superior clustering performance and improved efficiency over state-of-the-art methods.

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Incomplete multi-view clustering

conditional diffusion model

structure-aware learning

Structure-Aware Conditional Diffusion Generation for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

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