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Current unsupervised time series clustering methods often struggle to fully exploit the inherent characteristics of time series data and commonly adopt a two-stage training strategy that separates feature learning from the clustering process. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a novel deep clustering framework, \textbf{T}ime-\textbf{F}requency augmented \textbf{M}ulti-level \textbf{C}ontrastive \textbf{C}lustering (TFMCC). TFMCC employs a multi-scale time-frequency augmentation strategy, where each training iteration stochastically selects time and frequency scales to generate diverse augmented views, enhancing the model’s ability to learn robust and generalizable representations. In addition, a multi-level contrastive learning mechanism is introduced to jointly capture temporal dependencies, inter-sample similarities, and cluster structures. By jointly optimizing these components, TFMCC enables the learning of temporally-aware and clustering-friendly representations. Experimental results on 40 benchmark datasets demonstrate that TFMCC outperforms six existing methods in clustering accuracy.
