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Finding a Cluster in Incomplete Data

Data Structures and Algorithms 2023-12-14 v1

Abstract

We study two variants of the fundamental problem of finding a cluster in incomplete data. In the problems under consideration, we are given a multiset of incomplete dd-dimensional vectors over the binary domain and integers kk and rr, and the goal is to complete the missing vector entries so that the multiset of complete vectors either contains (i) a cluster of kk vectors of radius at most rr, or (ii) a cluster of kk vectors of diameter at most rr. We give tight characterizations of the parameterized complexity of the problems under consideration with respect to the parameters kk, rr, and a third parameter that captures the missing vector entries.

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@article{arxiv.2312.07628,
  title  = {Finding a Cluster in Incomplete Data},
  author = {Eduard Eiben and Robert Ganian and Iyad Kanj and Sebastian Ordyniak and Stefan Szeider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07628},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Short version appeared at ESA 2022. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1911.01465

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