Similarity-guided contrastive learning for deep multi-view clustering
摘要
A core challenge in deep multi-view clustering is the conflict between preserving view-specific features and enforcing global consistency, which risks representation degeneration. We propose a “protect-then-fuse” framework to resolve this conflict.Our method employs a staged, dual-contrastive architecture: a view-specific loss (LVSCL) first enhances individual view representations, which then guide a similarity-based loss (LSGCL) to learn a coherent global structure. Experiments show our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, with significant gains on complex datasets. Ablation studies further confirm the critical contributions of both the staged training and the dual-loss design. Our framework thus provides an effective solution to the consistency-specificity dilemma, successfully integrating diverse views while mitigating feature suppression. This validates the “protect-then-fuse” strategy as a robust paradigm for the field.