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From Representation to Clusters: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Attributed Hypergraph Clustering

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  • The paper introduces CAHC, an end-to-end contrastive learning method for attributed hypergraph clustering that jointly learns node embeddings and clustering assignments.
  • CAHC incorporates both node-level and hyperedge-level contrastive objectives to generate more effective node embeddings.
  • Unlike traditional two-step methods, CAHC integrates clustering supervision during embedding learning, reducing clustering-irrelevant information.
  • Experimental results across eight datasets show that CAHC outperforms existing state-of-the-art baselines in attributed hypergraph clustering tasks.
  • The approach advances the field by combining representation learning directly with clustering, improving clustering performance on complex hypergraph data.

Computer Science > Machine Learning

arXiv:2603.09370 (cs)
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2026]

Title:From Representation to Clusters: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Attributed Hypergraph Clustering

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Abstract:Contrastive learning has demonstrated strong performance in attributed hypergraph clustering. Typically, existing methods based on contrastive learning first learn node embeddings and then apply clustering algorithms, such as k-means, to these embeddings to obtain the clustering this http URL, these methods lack direct clustering supervision, risking the inclusion of clustering-irrelevant information in the learned this http URL this end, we propose a Contrastive learning approach for Attributed Hypergraph Clustering (CAHC), an end-to-end method that simultaneously learns node embeddings and obtains clustering results. CAHC consists of two main steps: representation learning and cluster assignment learning. The former employs a novel contrastive learning approach that incorporates both node-level and hyperedge-level objectives to generate node this http URL latter joint embedding and clustering optimization to refine these embeddings by clustering-oriented guidance and obtains clustering results this http URL experimental results demonstrate that CAHC outperforms baselines on eight datasets.
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Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.09370 [cs.LG]
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  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.09370
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