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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Dekai, Williams, Matthew, Toni, Francesca
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07769
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author Zhang, Dekai
Williams, Matthew
Toni, Francesca
author_facet Zhang, Dekai
Williams, Matthew
Toni, Francesca
contents Federated learning (FL) is a widely used framework for machine learning in distributed data environments where clients hold data that cannot be easily centralised, such as for data protection reasons. FL, however, is known to be vulnerable to non-IID data. Clustered FL addresses this issue by finding more homogeneous clusters of clients. We propose a novel one-shot clustering method, EMD-CFL, using the Earth Mover's distance (EMD) between data distributions in embedding space. We theoretically motivate the use of EMDs using results from the domain adaptation literature and demonstrate empirically superior clustering performance in extensive comparisons against 16 baselines and on a range of challenging datasets.
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spellingShingle Clustered Federated Learning via Embedding Distributions
Zhang, Dekai
Williams, Matthew
Toni, Francesca
Machine Learning
Federated learning (FL) is a widely used framework for machine learning in distributed data environments where clients hold data that cannot be easily centralised, such as for data protection reasons. FL, however, is known to be vulnerable to non-IID data. Clustered FL addresses this issue by finding more homogeneous clusters of clients. We propose a novel one-shot clustering method, EMD-CFL, using the Earth Mover's distance (EMD) between data distributions in embedding space. We theoretically motivate the use of EMDs using results from the domain adaptation literature and demonstrate empirically superior clustering performance in extensive comparisons against 16 baselines and on a range of challenging datasets.
title Clustered Federated Learning via Embedding Distributions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07769