DDCL: Deep Dual Competitive Learning: A Differentiable End-to-End Framework for Unsupervised Prototype-Based Representation Learning

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Source paper: DDCL: Deep Dual Competitive Learning: A Differentiable End-to-End Framework for Unsupervised Prototype-Based Representation Learning

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01740v1

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This paper introduces Deep Dual Competitive Learning (DDCL), the first fully differentiable end-to-end framework for unsupervised prototype-based representation learning.
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The external k-means is replaced by an internal Dual Competitive Layer (DCL) that generates prototypes as native differentiable outputs of the network.
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This single inversion makes the complete pipeline, from backbone feature extraction through prototype generation to soft cluster assignment, trainable by backpropagation through a single unified loss, with no Lloyd iterations, no pseudo-label discretisation, and no external clustering step.
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To ground the framework theoretically, the paper derives an exact algebraic decomposition of the soft quantisation loss into a simplex-constrained reconstruction error and a non-negative weighted prototype variance term.
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This identity reveals a self-regulating mechanism built into the loss geometry: the gradient of the variance term acts as an implicit separation force that resists prototype collapse without any auxiliary objective
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with a jointly trained backbone, DDCL outperforms its non-differentiable ablation by 65% in clustering accuracy
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and DeepCluster end-to-end by 122%
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The decomposition identity holds with zero violations across more than one hundred thousand training epochs
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