Federated Learning Based on OPTICS Clustering Optimization

Federated learning (FL) has emerged for solving the problem of data fragmentation and isolation in machine learning based on privacy protection. Each client node uploads the trained model parameter information to the central server based on the local training data, and the central server aggregates the parameter information to achieve the purpose of common training. In the real environment, the distribution of data among nodes is often inconsistent. By analyzing the influence of independent identically distributed data (non-IID) on the accuracy of FL, it is shown that the accuracy of the model obtained by the traditional FL method is low. Therefore, we proposed the diversified sampling strategies to simulate the non-IID data situation and came up with the OPTICS (ordering points to identify the clustering structure)-based clustering optimization federated learning method (OCFL), which solves the problem that the learning accuracy is reduced when the data of different nodes are non-IID in FL. Experiments indicate that OCFL greatly improves the model accuracy and training speed compared with the traditional FL algorithm.