Neighbor-Based Completion for Addressing Incomplete Multiview Clustering

Driven by the complementarity and consistency inherent in multiview data, multiview clustering (MVC) has garnered widespread attention in various domains. Real-world data often encounters the issue of missing information, leading to a surge of interest in the domain of incomplete MVC (IMVC). Despite existing approaches having made significant progress in addressing IMVC, two significant challenges persist: 1) many alignment-based methodologies tend to overlook the topological relationships among instances and 2) the view representations based on completion lack reconstructive properties, casting doubt on their alignment with the actual view representations. In response, we present a novel approach termed neighbor-based completion for addressing IMVC (NBIMVC), which capitalizes on the topological information among instances and the consistent information across views. Specifically, our method uses autoencoders to learn feature representations for each view and leverages nearest-neighbor relationships between unique and complete instances to complete missing features in missing views. Subsequently, we enforce hard negative alignment constraints on complete paired instances in the feature space. Finally, we ensure the consistency of views in the semantic space by employing cluster information and a shared clustering network, which facilitates the final multiview categories output and effectively resolves the IMVC problem. Extensive experimental evaluations validate the efficacy of our proposed method, showcasing comparable or superior performance to existing approaches.