Text-Guided Alternative Image Clustering

Andreas Stephan, Lukas Miklautz, Collin Leiber, Pedro Henrique Luz De Araujo, Dominik Répás, Claudia Plant, Benjamin Roth


Abstract
Traditional image clustering techniques only find a single grouping within visual data. In particular, they do not provide a possibility to explicitly define multiple types of clustering. This work explores the potential of large vision-language models to facilitate alternative image clustering. We propose Text-Guided Alternative Image Consensus Clustering (TGAICC), a novel approach that leverages user-specified interests via prompts to guide the discovery of diverse clusterings. To achieve this, it generates a clustering for each prompt, groups them using hierarchical clustering, and then aggregates them using consensus clustering. TGAICC outperforms image- and text-based baselines on four alternative image clustering benchmark datasets. Furthermore, using count-based word statistics, we are able to obtain text-based explanations of the alternative clusterings. In conclusion, our research illustrates how contemporary large vision-language models can transform explanatory data analysis, enabling the generation of insightful, customizable, and diverse image clusterings.
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2024.repl4nlp-1.13
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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2024)
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Chen Zhao, Marius Mosbach, Pepa Atanasova, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrent, Peter Hase, Arian Hosseini, Maha Elbayad, Sandro Pezzelle, Maximilian Mozes
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Andreas Stephan, Lukas Miklautz, Collin Leiber, Pedro Henrique Luz De Araujo, Dominik Répás, Claudia Plant, and Benjamin Roth. 2024. Text-Guided Alternative Image Clustering. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2024), pages 177–190, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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