  We investigate the high-dimensional data clustering problem by proposing a
novel and unsupervised representation learning model called Robust Flexible
Auto-weighted Local-coordinate Concept Factorization (RFA-LCF). RFA-LCF
integrates the robust flexible CF, robust sparse local-coordinate coding and
the adaptive reconstruction weighting learning into a unified model. The
adaptive weighting is driven by including the joint manifold preserving
constraints on the recovered clean data, basis concepts and new representation.
Specifically, our RFA-LCF uses a L2,1-norm based flexible residue to encode the
mismatch between clean data and its reconstruction, and also applies the robust
adaptive sparse local-coordinate coding to represent the data using a few
nearby basis concepts, which can make the factorization more accurate and
robust to noise. The robust flexible factorization is also performed in the
recovered clean data space for enhancing representations. RFA-LCF also
considers preserving the local manifold structures of clean data space, basis
concept space and the new coordinate space jointly in an adaptive manner way.
Extensive comparisons show that RFA-LCF can deliver enhanced clustering
results.
