MC-H: Multi-Granularity Clustering with Hyperspherical Determinantal Point Process
Abstract
Deep clustering struggles when coarse-grained and fine-grained semantics coexist in the same dataset, as a unified partitioning strategy tends to either over-separate coarse categories or miss subtle fine-grained differences. To address this problem, we propose the adaptive multi-granularity clustering framework in a hyperspherical space (MC-H). The framework combines Dynamic Prototype-Center Assignment (DPCA), a Hyperspherical Determinantal Point Process (H-DPP) module that adaptively regulates repulsion according to local structure and promotes stronger separation in dense regions while preserving flexibility in sparse ones, and a Semantic Subspace Denoising (SSD) module that suppresses non-semantic variations and improves cluster compactness. Extensive experiments across datasets with different semantic granularities show that our method consistently outperforms existing approaches and effectively unifies clustering across the full granularity spectrum.