IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

<italic>l</italic><sub>2,<italic>p</italic></sub>-Norm Based Discriminant Subspace Clustering Algorithm

  • Xiaobin Zhi,
  • Longtao Bi,
  • Jiulun Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2988821
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 76043 – 76055

Abstract

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Discriminative subspace clustering (DSC) combines Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) with clustering algorithm, such as K-means (KM), to form a single framework to perform dimension reduction and clustering simultaneously. It has been verified to be effective for high-dimensional data. However, most existing DSC algorithms rigidly use the Frobenius norm (F-norm) to define model that may not always suitable for the given data. In this paper, DSC is extended in the sense of I2,p-norm, which is a general form of the F-norm, to obtain a family of DSC algorithms which provide more alternative models for practical applications. In order to achieve this goal. Firstly, an efficient algorithm for the Ip-norm based KM (KMp) clustering is proposed. Then, based on the equivalence of LDA and linear regression, a I2,p-norm based LDA (I2,p-LDA) is proposed, and an efficient Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares algorithm for I2,p-LDA is presented. Finally, KMp and I2,p-LDA are combined into a single framework to form an efficient generalized DSC algorithm: I2,p-norm based DSC clustering (I2,p-DSC). In addition, the effects of the parameters on the proposed algorithm are analyzed, and based on the theory of robust statistics, a special case of I2,p-DSC, which can show better robustness on the data sets with noise and outlier, is studied. Extensive experiments are performed to verify the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.

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