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Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

Coresets are small, weighted summaries of larger datasets, aiming at providing provable error bounds for machine learning (ML) tasks while significantly reducing the communication and computation costs. To achieve a better trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Hanlin Lu , Changchang Liu , Shiqiang Wang , Ting He , Vijay Narayanan , Kevin S. Chan , Stephen Pasteris

Accurate coresets are a weighted subset of the original dataset, ensuring a model trained on the accurate coreset maintains the same level of accuracy as a model trained on the full dataset. Primarily, these coresets have been studied for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sanskar Ranjan , Supratim Shit

A coreset is a subset of the training set, using which a machine learning algorithm obtains performances similar to what it would deliver if trained over the whole original data. Coreset discovery is an active and open line of research as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Pietro Barbiero , Giovanni Squillero , Alberto Tonda

We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Hoai-An Nguyen , Chen Wang , Yubo Zhang , Samson Zhou

We obtain the first strong coresets for the $k$-median and subspace approximation problems with sum of distances objective function, on $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, with a number of weighted points that is independent of both $n$ and $d$;…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Christian Sohler , David P. Woodruff

The proliferation of large data sets and Bayesian inference techniques motivates demand for better data sparsification. Coresets provide a principled way of summarizing a large dataset via a smaller one that is guaranteed to match the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sebastian Claici , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon

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

We present algorithms for the computation of $\varepsilon$-coresets for $k$-median clustering of point sequences in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the $p$-dynamic time warping (DTW) distance. Coresets under DTW have not been investigated before, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jacobus Conradi , Benedikt Kolbe , Ioannis Psarros , Dennis Rohde

An $\varepsilon$-coreset for a given set $D$ of $n$ points, is usually a small weighted set, such that querying the coreset \emph{provably} yields a $(1+\varepsilon)$-factor approximation to the original (full) dataset, for a given family…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Dan Feldman , Zahi Kfir , Xuan Wu

In projective clustering we are given a set of n points in $R^d$ and wish to cluster them to a set $S$ of $k$ linear subspaces in $R^d$ according to some given distance function. An $\eps$-coreset for this problem is a weighted (scaled)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Adiel Statman , Liat Rozenberg , Dan Feldman

We study the problem of constructing coresets for clustering problems with time series data. This problem has gained importance across many fields including biology, medicine, and economics due to the proliferation of sensors facilitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Lingxiao Huang , K. Sudhir , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We study fair clustering problems as proposed by Chierichetti et al. (NIPS 2017). Here, points have a sensitive attribute and all clusters in the solution are required to be balanced with respect to it (to counteract any form of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Melanie Schmidt , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Christian Sohler

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

We consider the problem of constructing small coresets for $k$-Median in Euclidean spaces. Given a large set of data points $P\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, a coreset is a much smaller set $S\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, so that the $k$-Median costs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lingxiao Huang , Ruiyuan Huang , Zengfeng Huang , Xuan Wu

Recent work has proposed solving the k-means clustering problem on quantum computers via the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and coreset techniques. Although the current method demonstrates the possibility of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Canaan Yung , Muhammad Usman

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

Constructing small-sized coresets for various clustering problems in different metric spaces has attracted significant attention for the past decade. A central problem in the coreset literature is to understand what is the best possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Xuan Wu

We present an algorithm for computing $\epsilon$-coresets for $(k, \ell)$-median clustering of polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the Fr\'echet distance. This type of clustering is an adaption of Euclidean $k$-median clustering: we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Maike Buchin , Dennis Rohde

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

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-03 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Andreas Krause