Direct Contrastive Learning for Incomplete Multi-view Clustering

Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) is a emerging research topic. Although several attempts to solve IMVC have been proposed, they suffered from the following problems: (1) Most existing methods usually solve the dimensional collapse problem by adding additional projection heads, whereby the latent features are only effective in low-dimensional subspaces. However this approach will increase the complexity of the model. (2) Most existing methods typically use consistent learning and reconstruction learning on the same feature, which can result in irrelevant private information affecting the learning of the common representation. In this paper, a novel incomplete multi-view clustering framework based on direct contrastive learning is proposed to solve the above problems. Specifically, our method prevents dimensionality collapse without adding additional projection heads by utilizing sub-vectors of learned feature vectors for consistency learning. Furthermore, this framework reduces the adverse effects of inconsistent and useless private information by performing reconstruction loss and contrastive loss on the feature vector and its sub-vectors respectively. To handle incomplete data, a cross-view prediction mechanism is adopted to recover missing information. Extensive experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method and obtain significant performance improvements on public datasets.