ClusterGAN: Latent Space Clustering in Generative Adversarial Networks

Authors

  • Sudipto Mukherjee University of Washington
  • Himanshu Asnani University of Washington
  • Eugene Lin University of Washington
  • Sreeram Kannan University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014610

Abstract

Generative Adversarial networks (GANs) have obtained remarkable success in many unsupervised learning tasks and unarguably, clustering is an important unsupervised learning problem. While one can potentially exploit the latent-space back-projection in GANs to cluster, we demonstrate that the cluster structure is not retained in the GAN latent space. In this paper, we propose ClusterGAN as a new mechanism for clustering using GANs. By sampling latent variables from a mixture of one-hot encoded variables and continuous latent variables, coupled with an inverse network (which projects the data to the latent space) trained jointly with a clustering specific loss, we are able to achieve clustering in the latent space. Our results show a remarkable phenomenon that GANs can preserve latent space interpolation across categories, even though the discriminator is never exposed to such vectors. We compare our results with various clustering baselines and demonstrate superior performance on both synthetic and real datasets.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Mukherjee, S., Asnani, H., Lin, E., & Kannan, S. (2019). ClusterGAN: Latent Space Clustering in Generative Adversarial Networks. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 4610-4617. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014610

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning