Metric-based auto-instructor for learning mixed data representation
- Publication Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018, 2018, pp. 3318 - 3325
- Issue Date:
- 2018-01-01
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Copyright © 2018, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Mixed data with both categorical and continuous features are ubiquitous in real-world applications. Learning a good representation of mixed data is critical yet challenging for further learning tasks. Existing methods for representing mixed data often overlook the heterogeneous coupling relationships between categorical and continuous features as well as the discrimination between objects. To address these issues, we propose an auto-instructive representation learning scheme to enable margin-enhanced distance metric learning for a discrimination-enhanced representation. Accordingly, we design a metric-based auto-instructor (MAI) model which consists of two collaborative instructors. Each instructor captures the feature-level couplings in mixed data with fully connected networks, and guides the infinite-margin metric learning for the peer instructor with a contrastive order. By feeding the learned representation into both partition-based and density-based clustering methods, our experiments on eight UCI datasets show highly significant learning performance improvement and much more distinguishable visualization outcomes over the baseline methods.
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