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Federated learning (FL) underpins advancements in privacy-preserving distributed computing by collaboratively training neural networks without exposing clients' raw data. Current FL paradigms primarily focus on uni-modal data, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Jiaqi Zhu , Song Guo

Segmentation partitions an image into different regions containing pixels with similar attributes. A standard non-contextual variant of Fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm (FCM), considering its simplicity is generally used in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Narayana Reddy A , Ranjita Das

Generalized Class Discovery (GCD) aims to dynamically assign labels to unlabelled data partially based on knowledge learned from labelled data, where the unlabelled data may come from known or novel classes. The prevailing approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Yujiao Wu , Bingchen Zhao , Xueming Qian

Federated Learning (FL) is currently the most widely adopted framework for collaborative training of (deep) machine learning models under privacy constraints. Albeit it's popularity, it has been observed that Federated Learning yields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Felix Sattler , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

We address the problem of federated learning (FL) where users are distributed and partitioned into clusters. This setup captures settings where different groups of users have their own objectives (learning tasks) but by aggregating their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Avishek Ghosh , Jichan Chung , Dong Yin , Kannan Ramchandran

Driven by the growth of Web-scale decentralized services, Federated Clustering (FC) aims to extract knowledge from heterogeneous clients in an unsupervised manner while preserving the clients' privacy, which has emerged as a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shenghong Cai , Zihua Yang , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yuzhu Ji , Yiqun Zhang , Yiu-Ming Cheung

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

Distributional (or distribution-valued) data are a new type of data arising from several sources and are considered as realizations of distributional variables. A new set of fuzzy c-means algorithms for data described by distributional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-03 Antonio Irpino , Francisco De Carvalho , Rosanna Verde

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its performance deteriorates under statistical heterogeneity. Clustered Federated Learning addresses this challenge by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mahad Ali , Laura J. Brattain

Unsupervised clustering under domain shift (UCDS) studies how to transfer the knowledge from abundant unlabeled data from multiple source domains to learn the representation of the unlabeled data in a target domain. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Korawat Tanwisuth , Shujian Zhang , Pengcheng He , Mingyuan Zhou

The research interest of this paper is focused on the efficient clustering task for an arbitrary color data. In order to tackle this problem, we have tried to model the inherent uncertainty and vagueness of color data using fuzzy color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Dae-Won Kim , Kwang H. Lee

Federated learning (FL) allows collaborative machine learning training without sharing private data. While most FL methods assume identical data domains across clients, real-world scenarios often involve heterogeneous data domains.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Lei Wang , Jieming Bian , Letian Zhang , Chen Chen , Jie Xu

We propose a novel method for building fuzzy clusters of large data sets, using a smoothing numerical approach. The usual sum-of-squares criterion is relaxed so the search for good fuzzy partitions is made on a continuous space, rather than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-12 David Masis , Esteban Segura , Javier Trejos , Adilson Xavier

We propose Few-Example Clustering (FEC), a novel algorithm that performs contrastive learning to cluster few examples. Our method is composed of the following three steps: (1) generation of candidate cluster assignments, (2) contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Minguk Jang , Sae-Young Chung

Clustering is an important research topic for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A large variety of approaches has been presented focusing on different performance metrics. Even though all of them have many practical applications, an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Dimitrios Amaxilatis , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Christos Koninis , Apostolos Pyrgelis

Most of the research on clustering ensemble focuses on designing practical consistency learning algorithms.To solve the problems that the quality of base clusters varies and the low-quality base clusters have an impact on the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jianwen Gan , Yan Chen , Peng Zhou , Liang Du

A current assumption of most clustering methods is that the training data and future data are taken from the same distribution. However, this assumption may not hold in most real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose an information…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Jiangshe Zhang , Lizhen Ji , Meng Wang

Time series clustering is an essential machine learning task with applications in many disciplines. While the majority of the methods focus on time series taking values on the real line, very few works consider time series defined on the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-15 Ángel López-Oriona , Ying Sun , Rosa M. Crujeiras

The conventional clustering algorithms have difficulties in handling the challenges posed by the collection of natural data which is often vague and uncertain. Fuzzy clustering methods have the potential to manage such situations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Satendra kumar , Mamta kathuria , Alok Kumar Gupta , Monika Rani

Process discovery algorithms automatically extract process models from event logs, but high variability often results in complex and hard-to-understand models. To mitigate this issue, trace clustering techniques group process executions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jari Peeperkorn , Johannes De Smedt , Jochen De Weerdt