Federated Clustering with Unknown Local and Global Cluster Cardinalities
Federated clustering methods that do not require the global number of clusters $K$ still assume that each client knows its local number $K_g$. This assumption is hard to justify when clients know no more about their data than the server does, as in fault diagnosis across independently operated industrial sites. We propose a two-phase framework in which neither count is known: each client first estimates $K_g$ from its own data, and an aggregator that requires local counts, such as FedGEM, then uses these estimates in place of the true values. For the first phase we introduce Adaptive Split--Merge (ASM), which grows a spherical Gaussian mixture by BIC-driven splitting and then merges exces...
| Authors | Mitushi Goyal, Tarun S., Riddhanya Senapathi et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 29 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 29 September 2026 |
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