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Fitting a Graph to One-Dimensional Data

Computational Geometry 2020-10-01 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Given n data points in R^d, an appropriate edge-weighted graph connecting the data points finds application in solving clustering, classification, and regresssion problems. The graph proposed by Daitch, Kelner and Spielman (ICML~2009) can be computed by quadratic programming and hence in polynomial time. While a more efficient algorithm would be preferable, replacing quadratic programming is challenging even for the special case of points in one dimension. We develop a dynamic programming algorithm for this case that runs in O(n^2) time.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02948,
  title  = {Fitting a Graph to One-Dimensional Data},
  author = {Siu-Wing Cheng and Otfried Cheong and Taegyoung Lee and Zhengtong Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02948},
  year   = {2020}
}
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