Deep Learning with Nonparametric Clustering

Understand

Clustering is an essential problem in machine learning and data mining.

• One vital factor that impacts clustering performance is how to learn or design the data representation (or features).
• Fortunately, recent advances in deep learning can learn unsupervised features effectively, and have yielded state of the art performance in many classification problems, such as character recognition, object recognition and document categorization.
• However, little attention has been paid to the potential of deep learning for unsupervised clustering problems.