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One approach to studying the Fr\'echet distance is to consider curves that satisfy realistic assumptions. By now, the most popular realistic assumption for curves is $c$-packedness. Existing algorithms for computing the Fr\'echet distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Joachim Gudmundsson , Tiancheng Mai , Sampson Wong

We study the complexity of clustering curves under $k$-median and $k$-center objectives in the metric space of the Fr\'echet distance and related distance measures. Building upon recent hardness results for the minimum-enclosing-ball…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Martijn Struijs

We study the $k$-median clustering problem for high-dimensional polygonal curves with finite but unbounded number of vertices. We tackle the computational issue that arises from the high number of dimensions by defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Stefan Meintrup , Alexander Munteanu , Dennis Rohde

We investigate the fine-grained complexity of approximating the classical $k$-median / $k$-means clustering problems in general metric spaces. We show how to improve the approximation factors to $(1+2/e+\varepsilon)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

We study the shortcut Fr\'{e}chet distance, a natural variant of the Fr\'{e}chet distance, that allows us to take shortcuts from and to any point along one of the curves. The classic Fr\'echet distance is a bottle-neck distance measure and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Bettina Speckmann

Following recent advances in combining approximation algorithms with fixed-parameter tractability (FPT), we study FPT-time approximation algorithms for minimum-norm $k$-clustering problems, parameterized by the number $k$ of open…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Han Dai , Shi Li , Sijin Peng

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular metric for curves; however, its bottleneck character is a disadvantage in many applications. Here we introduce two variants of the Fr\'echet distance to cope with this problem and expand the work on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Maike Buchin , Lukas Plätz

Let $\tau$ and $\sigma$ be two polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for any fixed $d$. Suppose that $\tau$ and $\sigma$ have $n$ and $m$ vertices, respectively, and $m\le n$. While conditional lower bounds prevent approximating the Fr\'echet…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang , Shuo Zhang

We introduce a new distance measure for comparing polygonal chains: the $k$-Fr\'echet distance. As the name implies, it is closely related to the well-studied Fr\'echet distance but detects similarities between curves that resemble each…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Hugo A Akitaya , Maike Buchin , Leonie Ryvkin , Jérôme Urhausen

Recently there has been an increase in the studies on time-series data mining specifically time-series clustering due to the vast existence of time-series in various domains. The large volume of data in the form of time-series makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Hossein Kamalzadeh , Abbas Ahmadi , Saeed Mansour

The Fr\'echet distance is a computational mainstay for comparing polygonal curves. The Fr\'echet distance under translation, which is a translation invariant version, considers the similarity of two curves independent of their location in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lotte Blank , Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel , Benedikt Kolbe , André Nusser , Marena Richter

We study approximating the continuous Fr\'echet distance of two curves with complexity $n$ and $m$, under the assumption that only one of the two curves is $c$-packed. Driemel, Har{-}Peled and Wenk DCG'12 studied Fr\'echet distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Thijs van der Horst , Tim Ophelders

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure for curves which naturally lends itself to fundamental computational tasks, such as clustering, nearest-neighbor searching, and spherical range searching in the corresponding metric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Anne Driemel , Amer Krivošija

Given two polygonal curves $P$ and $Q$ defined by $n$ and $m$ vertices with $m\leq n$, we show that the discrete Fr\'echet distance in 1D cannot be approximated within a factor of $2-\varepsilon$ in $\mathcal{O}((nm)^{1-\delta})$ time for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lotte Blank

We give algorithms for computing coresets for $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate $k$-median clustering of polygonal curves (under the discrete and continuous Fr\'{e}chet distance) and point sets (under the Hausdorff distance), when the cluster…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Abhinandan Nath

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure between trajectories or curves in space, or between walks in graphs. We study computing the Fr\'echet distance between walks in the $d$-dimensional grid graphs, i.e. $\mathbb{Z}^d$ where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frederikke Uldahl , Eva Rotenberg

Clustering with capacity constraints is a fundamental problem that attracted significant attention throughout the years. In this paper, we give the first FPT constant-factor approximation algorithm for the problem of clustering points in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , William Lochet , Saket Saurabh

The Fr\'echet distance is a commonly used similarity measure between curves. It is known how to compute the continuous Fr\'echet distance between two polylines with $m$ and $n$ vertices in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in $O(mn (\log \log n)^2)$ time;…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

$k$-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

\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