Gromov-Wasserstein Methods for Multi-View Relational Embedding and Clustering
This work addresses the challenge of learning a unified low-dimensional representation from multi-view relational data, where inconsistent underlying geometric structures across views hinder effective integration. To overcome this, the authors propose a consensus embedding framework based on the Gromov–Wasserstein (GW) distance, which operates directly on pairwise distance matrices to preserve relational structures shared across views. By fusing intrinsic distances from multiple views and incorporating a clustering-oriented low-support representation, they introduce two novel algorithms—Bary-GWMDS and Mean-GWMDS-C—that robustly handle nonlinear distortions and yield geometrically consistent embeddings. Experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed methods produce representations with clear geometric interpretability and achieve superior clustering performance.