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Unsupervised Continual Learning in Streaming Environments

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Andri Ashfahani *
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Mahardhika Pratama
DOI:10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3163362delete
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Abstract

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A deep clustering network (DCN) is desired for data streams because of its aptitude in extracting natural features thus bypassing the laborious feature engineering step. While automatic construction of deep networks in streaming environments remains an open issue, it is also hindered by the expensive labeling cost of data streams rendering the increasing demand for unsupervised approaches. This article presents an unsupervised approach of DCN construction on the fly via simultaneous deep learning and clustering termed autonomous DCN (ADCN). It combines the feature extraction layer and autonomous fully connected layer in which both network width and depth are self-evolved from data streams based on the bias-variance decomposition of reconstruction loss. The self-clustering mechanism is performed in the deep embedding space of every fully connected layer, while the final output is inferred via the summation of cluster prediction score. Furthermore, a latent-based regularization is incorporated to resolve the catastrophic forgetting issue. A rigorous numerical study has shown that ADCN produces better performance compared with its counterparts while offering fully autonomous construction of ADCN structure in streaming environments in the absence of any labeled samples for model updates. To support the reproducible research initiative, codes, supplementary material, and raw results of ADCN are made available in https://github.com/andriash001/AutonomousDCN.git
Keywords:
Labeling
Feature extraction
Costs
Task analysis
Clustering algorithms
Training
Delays
Continual learning
data streams
evolving intelligent systems
online clustering
unsupervised learning

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IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems cover
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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Nanyang Technological University
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University of South Australia
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