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Theoretical Analysis of the $k$-Means Algorithm - A Survey

Data Structures and Algorithms 2016-02-29 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

The kk-means algorithm is one of the most widely used clustering heuristics. Despite its simplicity, analyzing its running time and quality of approximation is surprisingly difficult and can lead to deep insights that can be used to improve the algorithm. In this paper we survey the recent results in this direction as well as several extension of the basic kk-means method.

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@article{arxiv.1602.08254,
  title  = {Theoretical Analysis of the $k$-Means Algorithm - A Survey},
  author = {Johannes Blömer and Christiane Lammersen and Melanie Schmidt and Christian Sohler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08254},
  year   = {2016}
}
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