arXiv:2511.10915cs.LG2025-11

用局部图结构实现隐私保护的联邦聚类,兼顾效果与安全。

Towards Federated Clustering: A Client-wise Private Graph Aggregation Framework

  • 以客户端构建的结构图作为知识传递载体,避免直接传输嵌入或原型。
  • 单轮通信下提升聚类准确率最高达10%(NMI),优于现有基线。
  • 支持快速分析和迭代优化,适合图像等复杂数据场景。

联邦聚类致力于从分散的无标签数据中挖掘模式,但现有方法面临性能与隐私的权衡困境:传输嵌入可能泄露敏感信息,仅共享聚类原型则降低模型精度。为此,我们提出结构隐私保护联邦图聚类(SPP-FGC),创新性地将本地结构图作为隐私保护知识共享的核心媒介,突破传统技术局限。框架采用清晰的客户端-服务器逻辑:客户端构建捕捉数据内在关系的私有结构图,服务器安全聚合并对齐形成全局图,进而推导统一聚类结构。框架提供两种模式:SPP-FGC为高效单轮方法,适用于快速分析;SPP-FGC+通过客户端与服务器协作迭代优化特征表示,适用于图像等非结构化数据并取得更优下游性能。大量实验表明,该框架在保持可证明隐私保障的前提下,聚类准确率(NMI)相比联邦基线最高提升10%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated clustering addresses the critical challenge of extracting patterns from decentralized, unlabeled data. However, it is hampered by the flaw that current approaches are forced to accept a compromise between performance and privacy: \textit{transmitting embedding representations risks sensitive data leakage, while sharing only abstract cluster prototypes leads to diminished model accuracy}. To resolve this dilemma, we propose Structural Privacy-Preserving Federated Graph Clustering (SPP-FGC), a novel algorithm that innovatively leverages local structural graphs as the primary medium for privacy-preserving knowledge sharing, thus moving beyond the limitations of conventional techniques. Our framework operates on a clear client-server logic; on the client-side, each participant constructs a private structural graph that captures intrinsic data relationships, which the server then securely aggregates and aligns to form a comprehensive global graph from which a unified clustering structure is derived. The framework offers two distinct modes to suit different needs. SPP-FGC is designed as an efficient one-shot method that completes its task in a single communication round, ideal for rapid analysis. For more complex, unstructured data like images, SPP-FGC+ employs an iterative process where clients and the server collaboratively refine feature representations to achieve superior downstream performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance, improving clustering accuracy by up to 10\% (NMI) over federated baselines while maintaining provable privacy guarantees.

联邦学习图聚类隐私保护无监督

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