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Recently, due to an increasing interest for transparency in artificial intelligence, several methods of explainable machine learning have been developed with the simultaneous goal of accuracy and interpretability by humans. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan

We consider the Euclidean $k$-means clustering problem in a dynamic setting, where we have to explicitly maintain a solution (a set of $k$ centers) $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ subject to point insertions/deletions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yaonan Jin , Jianing Lou

In this work, we study the $k$-means cost function. Given a dataset $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and an integer $k$, the goal of the Euclidean $k$-means problem is to find a set of $k$ centers $C \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ such that $\Phi(C, X)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Anup Bhattacharya , Yoav Freund , Ragesh Jaiswal

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

Over the last few years Explainable Clustering has gathered a lot of attention. Dasgupta et al. [ICML'20] initiated the study of explainable $k$-means and $k$-median clustering problems where the explanation is captured by a threshold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengyuan Deng , Surya Teja Gavva , Karthik C. S. , Parth Patel , Adarsh Srinivasan

The fuzzy $K$-means problem is a popular generalization of the well-known $K$-means problem to soft clusterings. We present the first coresets for fuzzy $K$-means with size linear in the dimension, polynomial in the number of clusters, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Johannes Blömer , Sascha Brauer , Kathrin Bujna

Coresets are compact representations of data sets such that models trained on a coreset are provably competitive with models trained on the full data set. As such, they have been successfully used to scale up clustering models to massive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-08 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Andreas Krause

We give a quantum approximation scheme (i.e., $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation for every $\varepsilon > 0$) for the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the QRAM model with a running time that has only polylogarithmic dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ragesh Jaiswal

Given a set of points, clustering consists of finding a partition of a point set into $k$ clusters such that the center to which a point is assigned is as close as possible. Most commonly, centers are points themselves, which leads to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Matilde Fjeldsø Larsen , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Mads Bech Toftrup

This paper investigates the following natural greedy procedure for clustering in the bi-criterion setting: iteratively grow a set of centers, in each round adding the center from a candidate set that maximally decreases clustering cost. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Daniel Hsu , Matus Telgarsky

Given points from an arbitrary metric space and a sequence of point updates sent by an adversary, what is the minimum recourse per update (i.e., the minimum number of changes needed to the set of centers after an update), in order to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sebastian Forster , Antonis Skarlatos

We design new differentially private algorithms for the Euclidean k-means problem, both in the centralized model and in the local model of differential privacy. In both models, our algorithms achieve significantly improved error guarantees…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Haim Kaplan , Uri Stemmer

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 the \LowerBoundedCenter (\lbc) problem, which is a clustering problem that can be viewed as a variant of the \kCenter problem. In the \lbc problem, we are given a set of points P in a metric space and a lower bound \lambda, and the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Alina Ene , Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

We study the $k$-means problem for a set $\mathcal{S} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ segments, aiming to find $k$ centers $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ that minimize $D(\mathcal{S},X) := \sum_{S \in \mathcal{S}} \min_{x \in X} D(S,x)$, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 David Denisov , Shlomi Dolev , Dan Felmdan , Michael Segal

Coresets for $k$-means and $k$-median problems yield a small summary of the data, which preserve the clustering cost with respect to any set of $k$ centers. Recently coresets have also been constructed for constrained $k$-means and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

The $k$-center problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem which asks to find $k$ centers such that the maximum distance of any input point in a set $P$ to its assigned center is minimized. The problem allows for elegant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

In all state-of-the-art sketching and coreset techniques for clustering, as well as in the best known fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithms, randomness plays a key role. For the classic $k$-median and $k$-means problems, there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis, with the $k$-means being one of the widely studied objectives due to its simplicity and broad applicability. In many practical scenarios, data points come with associated weights that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Akash Pareek , Supratim Shit

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$ We develop a general randomized technique for solving "implic it" linear programming problems, where the collection of constraints are defined implicitly by an underlying ground set of elements. In many…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Timothy M. Chan , Sariel Har-Peled , Mitchell Jones