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In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangke Cheng , Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Hu Ding

In the Euclidean $k$-traveling salesman problem ($k$-TSP), we are given $n$ points in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, for some fixed constant $d\geq 2$, and a positive integer $k$. The goal is to find a shortest tour visiting at least…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Ernest van Wijland , Hang Zhou

For a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the Euclidean $k$-means problems consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of distances squared from each data point to its closest center is minimized. Coresets are one the main tools…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic , Leonhard Sidl

We give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the (not necessarily metric) $k$-Median problem. The algorithm is an $\alpha$-size-approximation algorithm for $\alpha < 1 + 2 \ln(n/k)$. That is, it guarantees a solution having size at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Neal E. Young

We study $k$-clustering problems with lower bounds, including $k$-median and $k$-means clustering with lower bounds. In addition to the point set $P$ and the number of centers $k$, a $k$-clustering problem with (uniform) lower bounds gets a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Anna Arutyunova , Melanie Schmidt

The connected $k$-median problem is a constrained clustering problem that combines distance-based $k$-clustering with connectivity information. The problem allows to input a metric space and an unweighted undirected connectivity graph that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jan Eube , Kelin Luo , Dorian Reineccius , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt

We consider a generalization of $k$-median and $k$-center, called the {\em ordered $k$-median} problem. In this problem, we are given a metric space $(\mathcal{D},\{c_{ij}\})$ with $n=|\mathcal{D}|$ points, and a non-increasing weight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chaitanya Swamy

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

The k-means++ algorithm due to Arthur and Vassilvitskii has become the most popular seeding method for Lloyd's algorithm. It samples the first center uniformly at random from the data set and the other $k-1$ centers iteratively according to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Anup Bhattacharya , Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt

We study Ward's method for the hierarchical $k$-means problem. This popular greedy heuristic is based on the \emph{complete linkage} paradigm: Starting with all data points as singleton clusters, it successively merges two clusters to form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Anna Großwendt , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt

Many real-world applications pose challenges in incorporating fairness constraints into the $k$-center clustering problem, where the dataset consists of $m$ demographic groups, each with a specified upper bound on the number of centers to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Longkun Guo , Zeyu Lin , Chaoqi Jia , Chao Chen

We study Euclidean $k$-Means under the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, focusing on the \emph{fully-scalable} setting. Our main result is a fully-scalable $O((\log n/\log\log n)^2)$-approximation in $O(1)$ rounds. Previously,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yaonan Jin , Jianing Lou , Weicheng Wang

We study the problem of $k$-means clustering in the space of straight-line segments in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ under the Hausdorff distance. For this problem, we give a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm that, for an input of $n$ segments, for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sergio Cabello , Panos Giannopoulos

The aim of the k-means is to minimize squared sum of Euclidean distance from the mean (SSEDM) of each cluster. The k-means can effectively optimize this function, but it is too sensitive for initial centers (seeds). This paper proposed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Hassan Ismkhan

This paper presents universal algorithms for clustering problems, including the widely studied $k$-median, $k$-means, and $k$-center objectives. The input is a metric space containing all potential client locations. The algorithm must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Arun Ganesh , Bruce M. Maggs , Debmalya Panigrahi

Spherical k-Means is frequently used to cluster document collections because it performs reasonably well in many settings and is computationally efficient. However, the time complexity increases linearly with the number of clusters k, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Johannes Knittel , Steffen Koch , Thomas Ertl

Bateni et al. has recently introduced the weak-strong distance oracle model to study clustering problems in settings with limited distance information. Given query access to the strong-oracle and weak-oracle in the weak-strong oracle model,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Pinki Pradhan , Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal

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 this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

Clustering of data points in metric space is among the most fundamental problems in computer science with plenty of applications in data mining, information retrieval and machine learning. Due to the necessity of clustering of large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Peilin Zhong