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Conventional approaches typically leverage this complementarity by projecting different views into a common embedding space using view-specific or shared non-linear neural networks. This unified embedding is then fed into standard single-view clustering algorithms to obtain the final clustering results. However, a single common embedding may be insufficient to capture the distinct or even contradictory characteristics of multi-view data, due to the divergent representational capacities of different views. To address this issue, we propose a mixture of experts (MoE) based embedding learning method that adaptively models inter-view relationships. This architecture employs a typical MoE module as a projection layer across all views, which uses shared expert and several groups of experts for consistency and complementarity mining. Furthermore, a Kullback-Leibler divergence based objective with over clustering is designed for clustering-oriented embedding learning. 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