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We present approximation algorithms for some variants of center-based clustering and related problems in the fully dynamic setting, where the pointset evolves through an arbitrary sequence of insertions and deletions. Specifically, we…

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The $k$-Center problem is one of the most popular clustering problems. After decades of work, the complexity of most of its variants on general metrics is now well understood. Surprisingly, this is not the case for a natural setting that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Haris Angelidakis , Ivan Sergeev , Pontus Westermark

We investigate the complexity of solving stable or perturbation-resilient instances of $k$-Means and $k$-Median clustering in fixed dimension Euclidean metrics (more generally doubling metrics). The notion of stable (perturbation resilient)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zachary Friggstad , Kamyar Khodamoradi , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

We study the $k$-center problem in the context of individual fairness. Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in a metric space and $r_x$ be the distance between $x \in P$ and its $\lceil n/k \rceil$-th nearest neighbor. The problem asks to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Matthijs Ebbens , Nicole Funk , Jan Höckendorff , Christian Sohler , Vera Weil

The $k$-center problem is a central optimization problem with numerous applications for machine learning, data mining, and communication networks. Despite extensive study in various scenarios, it surprisingly has not been thoroughly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Leyla Biabani , Ami Paz

In fully-dynamic consistent clustering, we are given a finite metric space $(M,d)$, and a set $F\subseteq M$ of possible locations for opening centers. Data points arrive and depart, and the goal is to maintain an approximately optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Niv Buchbinder , Roie Levin , Yue Yang

The $k$-center problem is a classic facility location problem, where given an edge-weighted graph $G = (V,E)$ one is to find a subset of $k$ vertices $S$, such that each vertex in $V$ is "close" to some vertex in $S$. The approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Tomasz Kociumaka , Marek Cygan

In the standard planar $k$-center clustering problem, one is given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, and the goal is to select $k$ center points, so as to minimize the maximum distance over points in $P$ to their nearest center. Here we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Hongyao Huang , Georgiy Klimenko , Benjamin Raichel

In this paper we consider a generalization of the classical k-center problem with capacities. Our goal is to select k centers in a graph, and assign each node to a nearby center, so that we respect the capacity constraints on centers. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Marek Cygan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Samir Khuller

Data analysis often involves an iterative process, where solutions must be continuously refined in response to new data. Typically, as new data becomes available, an existing solution must be updated to incorporate the latest information.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ameet Gadekar , Aristides Gionis , Thibault Marette

We study discrete k-clustering problems in general metric spaces that are constrained by a combination of two different fairness conditions within the demographic fairness model. Given a metric space (P,d), where every point in P is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nicole Funk , Annika Hennes , Johanna Hillebrand , Sarah Sturm

The k-means objective is arguably the most widely-used cost function for modeling clustering tasks in a metric space. In practice and historically, k-means is thought of in a continuous setting, namely where the centers can be located…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , Euiwoong Lee

$k$-Clustering in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (e.g., $k$-median and $k$-means) is a fundamental machine learning problem. While near-linear time approximation algorithms were known in the classical setting for a dataset with cardinality $n$, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yecheng Xue , Xiaoyu Chen , Tongyang Li , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

In discrete k-center and k-median clustering, we are given a set of points P in a metric space M, and the task is to output a set C \subseteq ? P, |C| = k, such that the cost of clustering P using C is as small as possible. For k-center,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Nirman Kumar , Benjamin Raichel

We study the complexity of the classic capacitated k-median and k-means problems parameterized by the number of centers, k. These problems are notoriously difficult since the best known approximation bound for high dimensional Euclidean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Jason Li

We incorporate group fairness into the algorithmic centroid clustering problem, where $k$ centers are to be located to serve $n$ agents distributed in a metric space. We refine the notion of proportional fairness proposed in [Chen et al.,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Bo Li , Lijun Li , Ankang Sun , Chenhao Wang , Yingfan Wang

Offline k-means clustering was studied extensively, and algorithms with a constant approximation are available. However, online clustering is still uncharted. New factors come into play: the ordering of the dataset and whether the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Michal Moshkovitz

Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms is a challenging and essential task. We consider the problem of clustering a set of points while satisfying fairness constraints. While there have been several attempts to capture group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Debajyoti Kar , Mert Kosan , Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Palash Dey , Swagato Sanyal

\textit{Clustering problems} often arise in the fields like data mining, machine learning etc. to group a collection of objects into similar groups with respect to a similarity (or dissimilarity) measure. Among the clustering problems,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Kasturi Varadarajan

We consider the online $k$-median clustering problem in which $n$ points arrive online and must be irrevocably assigned to a cluster on arrival. As there are lower bound instances that show that an online algorithm cannot achieve a…

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