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Weighted Subspace Graph Learning for High-Dimensional Data

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Li, GJ
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Zhiwen Yu
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Fan, Ziwei
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Kaixiang Yang
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C. L. Philip Chen
DOI:10.1109/TKDE.2026.3656436delete
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Graph-based clustering has been extensively explored and applied due to its exceptional performance. However, most existing methods operate directly in the original high-dimensional space, where complex nonlinear structures and redundant noisy features often obscure the intrinsic data distribution. Consequently, constructing a reliable similarity graph in such a space is inherently challenging, as uncertainty and noise can significantly degrade clustering performance. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel graph-based clustering method, Weighted Subspace Graph Learning (WSGL). Specifically, WSGL leverages kernel principal component analysis (Kernel PCA) to construct multiple kernel-based subspaces, effectively capturing nonlinear structures while reducing redundancy and noise. This strategy enhances subspace features from different perspectives, providing a more comprehensive understanding of the data distribution. Next, WSGL learns pairwise relationships across these subspaces, fully exploiting their complementary information to mitigate the limitations of relying on a single original space for capturing the global data structure. Furthermore, to ensure that the learned similarity graph preserves the same number of connected components as the ground-truth clusters, we impose a low-rank constraint on the graph structure. Additionally, considering the varying quality of different subspaces, WSGL introduces a dynamic weighting mechanism that adaptively assigns weights to subspaces based on their contribution to clustering performance, allowing high-quality subspaces to play a more dominant role in the final clustering results. Extensive experiments on multiple high-dimensional datasets demonstrate that WSGL surpasses state-of-the-art methods, validating its effectiveness and superiority in complex clustering tasks.
Keywords:
Clustering
adaptive graph learning
high-dimensional data

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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering cover
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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south china university of technology
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