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With input sizes becoming massive, coresets -- small yet representative summary of the input -- are relevant more than ever. A weighted set $C_w$ that is a subset of the input is an $\varepsilon$-coreset if the cost of any feasible solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Monika Henzinger , Sagar Kale

Coreset (or core-set) is a small weighted \emph{subset} $Q$ of an input set $P$ with respect to a given \emph{monotonic} function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ that \emph{provably} approximates its fitting loss $\sum_{p\in P}f(p\cdot x)$ to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Elad Tolochinsky , Ibrahim Jubran , Dan Feldman

We give a new construction for a small space summary satisfying the coreset guarantee of a data set with respect to the $k$-means objective function. The number of points required in an offline construction is in $\tilde{O}(k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Coresets are among the most popular paradigms for summarizing data. In particular, there exist many high performance coresets for clustering problems such as $k$-means in both theory and practice. Curiously, there exists no work on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar

This paper considers coresets for the robust $k$-medians problem with $m$ outliers, and new constructions in various metric spaces are obtained. Specifically, for metric spaces with a bounded VC or doubling dimension $d$, the coreset size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingxiao Huang , Zhenyu Jiang , Yi Li , Xuan Wu

Kernel regression is an essential and ubiquitous tool for non-parametric data analysis, particularly popular among time series and spatial data. However, the central operation which is performed many times, evaluating a kernel on the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Yan Zheng , Jeff M. Phillips

The coresets approach, also called subsampling or subset selection, aims to select a subsample as a surrogate for the observed sample and has found extensive applications in large-scale data analysis. Existing coresets methods construct the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-09-17 Mengyu Li , Jun Yu , Tao Li , Cheng Meng

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

Coreset selection targets the challenge of finding a small, representative subset of a large dataset that preserves essential patterns for effective machine learning. Although several surveys have examined data reduction strategies before,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Brian B. Moser , Arundhati S. Shanbhag , Stanislav Frolov , Federico Raue , Joachim Folz , Andreas Dengel

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

Scaling clustering algorithms to massive data sets is a challenging task. Recently, several successful approaches based on data summarization methods, such as coresets and sketches, were proposed. While these techniques provide provably…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Silvio Lattanzi

We study the robust geometric median problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, with a focus on coreset construction.A coreset is a compact summary of a dataset $P$ of size $n$ that approximates the robust cost for all centers $c$ within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ziyi Fang , Lingxiao Huang , Runkai Yang

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

Balanced partitioning is often a crucial first step in solving large-scale graph optimization problems, e.g., in some cases, a big graph can be chopped into pieces that fit on one machine to be processed independently before stitching the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kevin Aydin , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

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 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

Coreset, which is a summary of the original dataset in the form of a small weighted set in the same sample space, provides a promising approach to enable machine learning over distributed data. Although viewed as a proxy of the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Hanlin Lu , Ming-Ju Li , Ting He , Shiqiang Wang , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Kevin S Chan

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

Coresets are small data summaries that are sufficient for model training. They can be maintained online, enabling efficient handling of large data streams under resource constraints. However, existing constructions are limited to simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zalán Borsos , Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause

Fair clustering is a constrained variant of clustering where the goal is to partition a set of colored points, such that the fraction of points of any color in every cluster is more or less equal to the fraction of points of this color in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Kirill Simonov