Feiping Nie

On the Global Solution of Soft k-Means

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper presents an algorithm to solve the Soft k-Means problem globally. Unlike Fuzzy c-Means, Soft k-Means (SkM) has a matrix factorization-type objective and has been shown to have a close relation with the popular …

S2-Boost: Synergistic Semantic Boosting for Coarse-to-Fine Ensemble Learning

2026 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientific evidence reveals that human visual recognition is not an instantaneous event but a hierarchical process, where the brain constructs a holistic perception by progressively integrating simple features like edges or texture into complex scenes. …