Multi-View Representation Learning with Manifold Smoothness

Abstract

Multi-view representation learning attempts to learn a representation from multiple views and most existing methods are unsupervised. However, representation learned only from unlabeled data may not be discriminative enough for further applications (e.g., clustering and classification). For this reason, semi-supervised methods which could use unlabeled data along with the labeled data for multi-view representation learning need to be developed. Manifold information plays an important role in semi-supervised learning, but it has not been considered for multi-view representation learning. In this paper, we introduce the manifold smoothness into multi-view representation learning and propose MvDGAT which learns the representation and the intrinsic manifold simultaneously with graph attention network. Experiments conducted on real-world datasets reveal that our MvDGAT can achieve better performance than state-of-the-art methods.