Federated K-Means Clustering
Swier Garst (TU Delft - Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics)
Marcel J.T. Reinders (TU Delft - Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics)
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Abstract
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 grown substantially over the last years, unsupervised FL methods remain scarce. This work introduces an algorithm which implements K-means clustering in a federated manner, addressing the challenges of varying number of clusters between centers, as well as convergence on less separable datasets.