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We study beyond worst case analysis for the $k$-means problem where the goal is to model typical instances of $k$-means arising in practice. Existing theoretical approaches provide guarantees under certain assumptions on the optimal…

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Reduced k-means clustering is a method for clustering objects in a low-dimensional subspace. The advantage of this method is that both clustering of objects and low-dimensional subspace reflecting the cluster structure are simultaneously…

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Projective clustering is a problem with both theoretical and practical importance and has received a great deal of attentions in recent years. Given a set of points $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ space, projective clustering is to find a set…

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