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Federated Graph Learning (FGL) is a fusion of Federated Learning (FL) and Graph Neural Network. It is well known that one of the major challenges that FL needs to address is the non-IID problem. However, FGL not only needs to address the non-IID problem at the data feature level but also at the structure feature level. In addition, addressing unbalanced engagement among different clients in global training is crucial for further advancing the FGL application. Aiming to address the aforementioned challenges, we propose a Soft Clustering Based Federated Graph Learning (SCFGL) on non-IID Graphs, which mitigates the non-IID problem of both data and structure feature levels while balancing the impact of clients with different levels of engagement. Firstly, to address the non-IID distribution of structural features among graph-structured data from different clients, we develop a Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (TSVD) based soft clustering method, which constructs principal vectors by applying TSVD to the structural embeddings and divides personalized clusters by structural similarity. Secondly, we design a model aggregation method that takes into account both the level of client engagement and the model quality to tackle unbalanced client engagement in real-world application scenarios. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments under various settings, such as cross-dataset and cross-domain. The results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing FGL state-of-the-art methods in terms of performance. © 2025 Elsevier Ltd
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Pattern Recognition
ISSN: 0031-3203
Year: 2026
Volume: 172
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JCR@2023
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