Summary of Asynchronous Federated Clustering with Unknown Number Of Clusters, by Yunfan Zhang et al.
Asynchronous Federated Clustering with Unknown Number of Clusters
by Yunfan Zhang, Yiqun Zhang, Yang Lu, Mengke Li, Xi Chen, Yiu-ming Cheung
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Asynchronous Federated Cluster Learning (AFCL) method addresses challenges in Federated Clustering (FC) by handling communication asynchrony and unknown cluster numbers among heterogeneous clients. The approach spreads seed points to clients, coordinating them for consensus formation, and incorporates a balancing mechanism to alleviate distribution imbalances caused by asynchronous uploads. AFCL demonstrates efficacy through extensive experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated clustering helps collect data from many sources while keeping it private. This paper improves how this works by considering that some sources have different communication speeds and the number of groups (or clusters) isn’t known. The method, called Asynchronous Federated Cluster Learning, spreads initial “seed” points to these sources and coordinates them to agree on a shared understanding of the clusters. To balance the differences in data quality between sources, it also adjusts the seed points accordingly. This method shows promising results in real-world scenarios. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering
