A lower bound for metric 1-median selection
Data Structures and Algorithms
2014-01-13 v1
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Ching-Lueh Chang
Abstract
Consider the problem of finding a point in an n-point metric space with the minimum average distance to all points. We show that this problem has no deterministic o(n2)-query (4−Ω(1))-approximation algorithms.
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@article{arxiv.1401.2195,
title = {A lower bound for metric 1-median selection},
author = {Ching-Lueh Chang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2195},
year = {2014}
}
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