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Recently, deep matrix factorization has been established as a powerful model for unsupervised tasks, achieving promising results, especially for multi-view clustering. However, existing methods often lack effective feature selection mechanisms and rely on empirical hyperparameter selection. To address these issues, we introduce a novel Deep Matrix Factorization with Adaptive Weights for Multi-View Clustering (DMFAW). Our method simultaneously incorporates feature selection and generates local partitions, enhancing clustering results. Notably, the features weights are controlled and adjusted by a parameter that is dynamically updated using Control Theory inspired mechanism, which not only improves the model’s stability and adaptability to diverse datasets but also accelerates convergence. A late fusion approach is then proposed to align the weighted local partitions with the consensus partition. Finally, the optimization problem is solved via an alternating optimization algorithm with theoretically guaranteed convergence. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets highlight that DMFAW outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of clustering performance.

The increasing availability and diversity of multimodal data in recommender systems offer new avenues for enhancing recommendation accuracy and user satisfaction. However, these systems must contend with high-dimensional, sparse user-item rating matrices, where reconstructing the matrix with only small subsets of preferred items for each user poses a significant challenge. To address this, we propose CADMR, a novel autoencoder-based multimodal recommender system framework. CADMR leverages multi-head cross-attention mechanisms and Disentangled Learning to effectively integrate and utilize heterogeneous multimodal data in reconstructing the rating matrix. Our approach first disentangles modality-specific features while preserving their interdependence, thereby learning a joint latent representation. The multi-head cross-attention mechanism is then applied to enhance user-item interaction representations with respect to the learned multimodal item latent representations. We evaluate CADMR on three benchmark datasets, demonstrating significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods.

By combining related objects, unsupervised machine learning techniques aim to reveal the underlying patterns in a data set. Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a data mining technique that splits data matrices by imposing restrictions on the elements’ non-negativity into two matrices: one representing the data partitions and the other to represent the cluster prototypes of the data set. This method has attracted a lot of attention and is used in a wide range of applications, including text mining, clustering, language modeling, music transcription, and neuroscience (gene separation). The interpretation of the generated matrices is made simpler by the absence of negative values. In this article, we propose a study on multi-modal clustering algorithms and present a novel method called multi-modal multi-view non-negative matrix factorization, in which we analyze the collaboration of several local NMF models. The experimental results show the value of the proposed approach, which was evaluated using a variety of data sets, and the obtained results are very promising compared to state of art methods.

Chatbots allow computer programs to interact naturally with a user. However, they remain limited due to their lack of sensitivity to the user’s state of mind and emotions. This sensitivity will allow the chatbots to provide more accurate answers. Text-based emotion detection has already been explored for the english language (Chatterjee et al., 2019), yet no satisfying french dataset is available. We propose to translate the emotion corpus of multi-party conversation EmotionLines, which is based on the Friends TV show, by exploiting its french broadcasting. Our translation-based dataset generation method is adaptable to any dataset deriving from foreign movies, or TV shows broadcasted in french. Using this translated dataset, we propose a classifier based on BERT, able to detect the user’s emotion from text. It takes into account the context of the discussion to improve its inferences.