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Clustering traditionally aims to reveal a natural grouping structure within unlabeled data. However, this structure may not always align with users' preferences. In this paper, we propose a personalized clustering method that explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiwen Geng , Suyun Zhao , Yixin Yu , Borui Peng , Pan Du , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Mengdie Wang

Ensuring the reliability of automated decision-making based on neural networks will be crucial as Artificial Intelligence systems are deployed more widely in critical situations. This paper proposes a new approach for measuring confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Daniel Sikar , Artur d'Avila Garcez , Tillman Weyde

Clustered federated Multitask learning is introduced as an efficient technique when data is unbalanced and distributed amongst clients in a non-independent and identically distributed manner. While a similarity metric can provide client…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Abegaz Mohammed , Aiman Erbad , Octavia A. Dobre

Federated learning is a novel decentralized learning architecture. During the training process, the client and server must continuously upload and receive model parameters, which consumes a lot of network transmission resources. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yan-Ann Chen , Guan-Lin Chen

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

Many real world systems or web services can be represented as a network such as social networks and transportation networks. In the past decade, many algorithms have been developed to detect the communities in a network using connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Zhi Liu , Yan Huang

The increased quantity of data has led to a soaring use of networks to model relationships between different objects, represented as nodes. Since the number of nodes can be particularly large, the network information must be summarised…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-03 Rémi Boutin , Pierre Latouche , Charles Bouveyron

Correlation clustering is a technique for aggregating data based on qualitative information about which pairs of objects are labeled 'similar' or 'dissimilar.' Because the optimization problem is NP-hard, much of the previous literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , David F. Gleich

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Dekai Zhang , Matthew Williams , Francesca Toni

We consider the problem of personalized federated learning when there are known cluster structures within users. An intuitive approach would be to regularize the parameters so that users in the same cluster share similar model weights. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Boxiang Lyu , Filip Hanzely , Mladen Kolar

We revisit the recently developed framework of proportionally fair clustering, where the goal is to provide group fairness guarantees that become stronger for groups of data points (agents) that are large and cohesive. Prior work applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ioannis Caragiannis , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

In temporal ordered clustering, given a single snapshot of a dynamic network in which nodes arrive at distinct time instants, we aim at partitioning its nodes into $K$ ordered clusters $\mathcal{C}_1 \prec \cdots \prec \mathcal{C}_K$ such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Krzysztof Turowski , Jithin K. Sreedharan , Wojciech Szpankowski

Federated learning is a technique that enables the use of distributed datasets for machine learning purposes without requiring data to be pooled, thereby better preserving privacy and ownership of the data. While supervised FL research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Swier Garst , Marcel Reinders

Graph clustering has been studied extensively on both plain graphs and attributed graphs. However, all these methods need to partition the whole graph to find cluster structures. Sometimes, based on domain knowledge, people may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Wei Ye , Dominik Mautz , Christian Boehm , Ambuj Singh , Claudia Plant

Federated clustering (FC) aims to discover global cluster structures across decentralized clients without sharing raw data, making privacy preservation a fundamental requirement. There are two critical challenges: (1) privacy leakage during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Yan , Jing Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Higher-order structures of networks, namely, small subgraphs of networks (also called network motifs), are widely known to be crucial and essential to the organization of networks. There has been a few work studying the community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-14 Xiao Guo , Hai Zhang , Xiangyu Chang

Clustering is an unsupervised learning task that aims to partition data into a set of clusters. In many applications, these clusters correspond to real-world constructs (e.g. electoral districts) whose benefit can only be attained by groups…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Knowledge sharing and model personalization are essential components to tackle the non-IID challenge in federated learning (FL). Most existing FL methods focus on two extremes: 1) to learn a shared model to serve all clients with non-IID…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jie Ma , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

In this work, we analyse and predict the stability of communities in complex networks. We use a variant of closeness centrality, known as profile closeness, to measure the loyalty of a member towards its community. We show that the profile…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Sruthi K S , Divya Sindhu Lekha , A Sreekumar , Kannan Balakrishnan

We consider the problem of decentralized clustering and estimation over multi-task networks, where agents infer and track different models of interest. The agents do not know beforehand which model is generating their own data. They also do…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Sahar Khawatmi , Ali H. Sayed , Abdelhak M. Zoubir