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Decentralized Clustering and Linking by Networked Agents

Khawatmi, Sahar
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Sayed, Ali H.  
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Zoubir, Abdelhak M.
2017
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

We consider the problem of decentralized clustering and estimation over multitask 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 not know which agents in their neighborhood belong to the same cluster. We propose a decentralized clustering algorithm aimed at identifying and forming clusters of agents of similar objectives, and at guiding cooperation to enhance the inference performance. One key feature of the proposed technique is the integration of the learning and clustering tasks into a single strategy. We analyze the performance of the procedure and show that the error probabilities of types I and II decay exponentially to zero with the step-size parameter. While links between agents following different objectives are ignored in the clustering process, we nevertheless show how to exploit these links to relay critical information across the network for enhanced performance. Simulation results illustrate the performance of the proposed method in comparison to other useful techniques.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TSP.2017.2692736
ArXiv ID

1610.09112

Author(s)
Khawatmi, Sahar
Sayed, Ali H.  
Zoubir, Abdelhak M.
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Volume

65

Issue

13

Start page

3526

End page

3537

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

EPFL units
ASL  
Available on Infoscience
December 19, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/143429
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