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Fast and high quality document clustering is an important task in organizing information, search engine results obtaining from user query, enhancing web crawling and information retrieval. With the large amount of data available and with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Alok Ranjan , Harish Verma , Eatesh Kandpal , Joydip Dhar

We consider the problem of subspace clustering: given points that lie on or near the union of many low-dimensional linear subspaces, recover the subspaces. To this end, one first identifies sets of points close to the same subspace and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-03 Dohyung Park , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

We study the consistent k-center clustering problem. In this problem, the goal is to maintain a constant factor approximate $k$-center solution during a sequence of $n$ point insertions and deletions while minimizing the recourse, i.e., the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jakub Łącki , Bernhard Haeupler , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň , Rajesh Jayaram

Fairness of decision-making algorithms is an increasingly important issue. In this paper, we focus on spectral clustering with group fairness constraints, where every demographic group is represented in each cluster proportionally as in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Francesco Tonin , Alex Lambert , Johan A. K. Suykens , Volkan Cevher

Clustering can be defined as the process of assembling objects into a number of groups whose elements are similar to each other in some manner. As a technique that is used in many domains, such as face clustering, plant categorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mehmet F. Demirel , Enrico Au-Yeung

People are always in search of matters for which they are prone to use internet, but again it has huge assemblage of data due to which it becomes difficult for the reader to get the most accurate data. To make it easier for people to gather…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Monica Jha

We revisit the $(f,g)$-clustering problem that we introduced in a recent work [SODA'25], and which subsumes fundamental clustering problems such as $k$-Center, $k$-Median, Min-Sum of Radii, and Min-Load $k$-Clustering. This problem assigns…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Martin G. Herold , Evangelos Kipouridis , Joachim Spoerhase

Correlation clustering is a widely studied framework for clustering based on pairwise similarity and dissimilarity scores, but its best approximation algorithms rely on impractical linear programming relaxations. We present faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nate Veldt

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

Many clustering problems in computer vision and other contexts are also classification problems, where each cluster shares a meaningful label. Subspace clustering algorithms in particular are often applied to problems that fit this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 John Lipor , Laura Balzano

In this paper, we describe versions of triclustering algorithms adapted for efficient calculations in distributed environments with MapReduce model or parallelisation mechanism provided by modern programming languages. OAC-family of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Dmitry Egurnov , Dmitry I. Ignatov , Dmitry Tochilkin

When dealing with massive data sorting, we usually use Hadoop which is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. A common approach in implement of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Zhuo Wang , Longlong Tian , Dianjie Guo , Xiaoming Jiang

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

We study a variant of classical clustering formulations in the context of algorithmic fairness, known as diversity-aware clustering. In this variant we are given a collection of facility subsets, and a solution must contain at least a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Suhas Thejaswi , Ameet Gadekar , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Michal Osadnik

As a kind of basic machine learning method, clustering algorithms group data points into different categories based on their similarity or distribution. We present a clustering algorithm by finding hyper-planes to distinguish the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Luhong Diao , Jinying Gao1 , Manman Deng

The Map-Reduce computing framework rose to prominence with datasets of such size that dozens of machines on a single cluster were needed for individual jobs. As datasets approach the exabyte scale, a single job may need distributed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Riley Murray , Samir Khuller , Megan Chao

Many algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional spaces partition the data into clusters. At query time, in order to avoid exhaustive search, an index selects the few (or a single) clusters nearest to the query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Romain Tavenard , Laurent Amsaleg , Hervé Jégou

MapReduce is becoming the de facto framework for storing and processing massive data, due to its excellent scalability, reliability, and elasticity. In many MapReduce applications, obtaining a compact accurate summary of data is essential.…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Jeffrey Jestes , Ke Yi , Feifei Li

Due to the progressive growth of the amount of data available in a wide variety of scientific fields, it has become more difficult to ma- nipulate and analyze such information. Even though datasets have grown in size, the K-means algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-11 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , José Antonio Lozano

One of the most widely used techniques for data clustering is agglomerative clustering. Such algorithms have been long used across many different fields ranging from computational biology to social sciences to computer vision in part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Maria-Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang , Pramod Gupta