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We present approximation algorithms for some variants of center-based clustering and related problems in the fully dynamic setting, where the pointset evolves through an arbitrary sequence of insertions and deletions. Specifically, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Paolo Pellizzoni , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

In a number of situations, collecting a function value for every data point may be prohibitively expensive, and random sampling ignores any structure in the underlying data. We introduce a scalable optimization algorithm with no correction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Saeed Vahidian , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Alexander Cloninger

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\Re^2$. For a parameter $\varepsilon\in (0,1)$, a subset $C\subseteq P$ is an \emph{$\varepsilon$-kernel} of $P$ if the projection of the convex hull of $C$ approximates that of $P$ within…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Sariel Har-Peled

Coreset Selection (CS) aims to identify a subset of the training dataset that achieves model performance comparable to using the entire dataset. Many state-of-the-art CS methods select coresets using scores whose computation requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Akshay Mehra , Trisha Mittal , Subhadra Gopalakrishnan , Joshua Kimball

We investigate coresets - succinct, small summaries of large data sets - so that solutions found on the summary are provably competitive with solution found on the full data set. We provide an overview over the state-of-the-art in coreset…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-06 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Andreas Krause

As machine learning tasks continue to evolve, the trend has been to gather larger datasets and train increasingly larger models. While this has led to advancements in accuracy, it has also escalated computational costs to unsustainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Mohammad Jafari , Yimeng Zhang , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu

We construct near-optimal coresets for kernel density estimates for points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the kernel is positive definite. Specifically we show a polynomial time construction for a coreset of size $O(\sqrt{d}/\varepsilon\cdot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jeff M. Phillips , Wai Ming Tai

We consider robust clustering problems in $\mathbb{R}^d$, specifically $k$-clustering problems (e.g., $k$-Median and $k$-Means with $m$ outliers, where the cost for a given center set $C \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ aggregates the distances from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Jianing Lou , Xuan Wu

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

In (fully) dynamic set cover, the goal is to maintain an approximately optimal solution to a dynamically evolving instance of set cover, where in each step either an element is added to or removed from the instance. The two main desiderata…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sayan Bhattacharya , Ruoxu Cen , Debmalya Panigrahi

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

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

With the dramatic growth in the number of application domains that generate probabilistic, noisy and uncertain data, there has been an increasing interest in designing algorithms for geometric or combinatorial optimization problems over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Jeff M. Phillips , Haitao Wang

Coresets have emerged as a powerful tool to summarize data by selecting a small subset of the original observations while retaining most of its information. This approach has led to significant computational speedups but the performance of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Paxton Turner , Jingbo Liu , Philippe Rigollet

\emph{Coresets} are important tools to generate concise summaries of massive datasets for approximate analysis. A coreset is a small subset of points extracted from the original point set such that certain geometric properties are preserved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yanhao Wang , Yuchen Li , Kian-Lee Tan

Given a set of $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, the Euclidean $k$-means problem (resp. the Euclidean $k$-median problem) consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of squared distances (resp. sum of distances) from every point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Kasper Green Larsen , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar

Designing small-sized \emph{coresets}, which approximately preserve the costs of the solutions for large datasets, has been an important research direction for the past decade. We consider coreset construction for a variety of general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Pinyan Lu , Xuan Wu

We design and mathematically analyze sampling-based algorithms for regularized loss minimization problems that are implementable in popular computational models for large data, in which the access to the data is restricted in some way. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ryan R. Curtin , Sungjin Im , Ben Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Alireza Samadian

A coreset of a dataset with $n$ examples and $d$ features is a weighted subset of examples that is sufficient for solving downstream data analytic tasks. Nearly optimal constructions of coresets for least squares and $\ell_p$ linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

How can we train a statistical mixture model on a massive data set? In this work we show how to construct coresets for mixtures of Gaussians. A coreset is a weighted subset of the data, which guarantees that models fitting the coreset also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-17 Mario Lucic , Matthew Faulkner , Andreas Krause , Dan Feldman