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8 papers

cs.AI2026

GRACE: LLM-Grounded Semantic Metric Spaces for Scalable Mixed-Data Clustering

Zihua Yang, Zhencheng Xie, Junyang Chen +4

Clustering mixed tabular data requires a unified metric space to bridge the inherent heterogeneity between continuous numerical measurements and discrete categorical symbols. Tradi…

cs.CV2026

SECOS: Semantic Capture for Rigorous Classification in Open-World Semi-Supervised Learning

Hezhao Liu, Jiacheng Yang, Junlong Gao +4

In open-world semi-supervised learning (OWSSL), a model learns from labeled data and unlabeled data containing both known and novel classes. In practical OWSSL applications, models…

cs.CV2026

Learning from Imperfect Text Guidance: Robust Long-Tail Visual Recognition with High-Noise Label

Mengke Li, Haiquan Ling, Yiqun Zhang +2

Real-world data often exhibit long-tailed distributions with numerous noisy labels, substantially degrading the performance of deep models. While prior research has made progress i…

cs.LG2026

Learning Unified Distance Metric for Heterogeneous Attribute Data Clustering

Yiqun Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Yizhou Chen +2

Datasets composed of numerical and categorical attributes (also called mixed data hereinafter) are common in real clustering tasks. Differing from numerical attributes that indicat…

stat.ML2026

Learning Order Forest for Qualitative-Attribute Data Clustering

Mingjie Zhao, Sen Feng, Yiqun Zhang +3

Clustering is a fundamental approach to understanding data patterns, wherein the intuitive Euclidean distance space is commonly adopted. However, this is not the case for implicit…

cs.LG2025

Break the Tie: Learning Cluster-Customized Category Relationships for Categorical Data Clustering

Mingjie Zhao, Zhanpei Huang, Yang Lu +4

Categorical attributes with qualitative values are ubiquitous in cluster analysis of real datasets. Unlike the Euclidean distance of numerical attributes, the categorical attribute…