Robust Multi-Graph Contrastive Network for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

Food categorization is pivotal in numerous aspects of everyday life, assisting in the selection of food, managing diets, and addressing essential survival requirements. By leveraging the complementary information of various views, multi-view learning usually achieves superior performance compared to the single-view learning methods. However, characterized by the unrestrained openness of internet platforms and potential inconsistencies in food data collection processes, multi-view features often suffer from data loss, resulting in incomplete multi-view food data. Conventional multi-view clustering methods often falter in effectively capitalizing on the diverse correlations contained in food data, and exhibit limitations in dealing with the noise and irregularities pervading different views. Addressing these challenges, this paper presents the Robust Multi-Graph Contrastive network (RMGC) for multi-view food clustering. RMGC artfully combines multi-view representation learning with multi-graph contrastive regularization, creating a cohesive framework to manage incomplete multi-view data. By developing a multi-view encoding network, RMGC seamlessly blends various views into a cohesive representation, astutely assessing the significance of each view. More importantly, the proposed robust multi-graph contrastive regularization enhances the precision of the learned representation and successfully counteracts the noise and unreliability in multi-view data. The experiments conducted across several multi-view datasets manifest the effectiveness of RMGC, showing its superiority over existing methods. Our method not only making an advancement in food categorization but also contributes to the broader field of multi-view learning, offering innovative solutions for handling incomplete and noisy multi-view data.