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We investigate the complexity of solving stable or perturbation-resilient instances of $k$-Means and $k$-Median clustering in fixed dimension Euclidean metrics (more generally doubling metrics). The notion of stable (perturbation resilient)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zachary Friggstad , Kamyar Khodamoradi , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

In this paper, we first propose a new iterative algorithm, called the K-sets+ algorithm for clustering data points in a semi-metric space, where the distance measure does not necessarily satisfy the triangular inequality. We show that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Cheng-Shang Chang , Chia-Tai Chang , Duan-Shin Lee , Li-Heng Liou

Clustering is an important tool in data analysis, with K-means being popular for its simplicity and versatility. However, it cannot handle non-linearly separable clusters. Kernel K-means addresses this limitation but requires a large kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Julian Bellavita , Matthew Rubino , Nakul Iyer , Andrew Chang , Aditya Devarakonda , Flavio Vella , Giulia Guidi

Clustering, a fundamental activity in unsupervised learning, is notoriously difficult when the feature space is high-dimensional. Fortunately, in many realistic scenarios, only a handful of features are relevant in distinguishing clusters.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Zhiyue Zhang , Kenneth Lange , Jason Xu

The $k$-median and $k$-means clustering objectives are classic objectives for modeling clustering in a metric space. Given a set of points in a metric space, the goal of the $k$-median (resp. $k$-means) problem is to find $k$ representative…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

The $k$-means algorithm is arguably the most popular nonparametric clustering method but cannot generally be applied to datasets with incomplete records. The usual practice then is to either impute missing values under an assumed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Andrew Lithio , Ranjan Maitra

Convex clustering has recently garnered increasing interest due to its attractive theoretical and computational properties, but its merits become limited in the face of high-dimensional data. In such settings, pairwise affinity terms that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Jason Xu

Identifying a set of homogeneous clusters in a heterogeneous dataset is one of the most important classes of problems in statistical modeling. In the realm of unsupervised partitional clustering, k-means is a very important algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 J. Andrew Howe

This work presents a novel variant of the Firefly Algorithm (FA) for data clustering, addressing limitations of traditional methods like K-Means that struggle with non-uniform cluster shapes, densities, and the need for pre-defining the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 MKA Ariyaratne , Azwirman Gusrialdi , Yury Nikulin , Jaakko Peltonen

Big Data is a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is too large and it also difficult to process using traditional techniques. Clustering algorithms have developed as a powerful learning tool that can exactly analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Y. A. Joarder , Mosabbir Ahmed

The k-means problem consists of finding k centers in the d-dimensional Euclidean space that minimize the sum of the squared distances of all points in an input set P to their closest respective center. Awasthi et. al. recently showed that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Euiwoong Lee , Melanie Schmidt , John Wright

$K$-means clustering is one of the most widely-used partitioning algorithm in cluster analysis due to its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, $K$-means does not provide an appropriate clustering result when applying to data…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-18 Bingling Wang , Yinxing Li , Wolfgang Karl Härdle

The $k$-means algorithm is one of the most widely used clustering heuristics. Despite its simplicity, analyzing its running time and quality of approximation is surprisingly difficult and can lead to deep insights that can be used to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Johannes Blömer , Christiane Lammersen , Melanie Schmidt , Christian Sohler

The purpose of this paper is to improve the traditional K-means algorithm. In the traditional K mean clustering algorithm, the initial clustering centers are generated randomly in the data set. It is easy to fall into the local minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Su Chang , Xu Zhenzong , Gao Xuan

Density peaks clustering has become a nova of clustering algorithm because of its simplicity and practicality. However, there is one main drawback: it is time-consuming due to its high computational complexity. Herein, a density peaks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-21 Yunxiao Shan , Shu Li , Fuxiang Li , Yuxin Cui , Shuai Li , Ming Zhou , Xiang Li

Clustering is one of the most important tools for analysis of large datasets, and perhaps the most popular clustering algorithm is Lloyd's algorithm for $k$-means. This algorithm takes $n$ vectors $V=[v_1,\dots,v_n]\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Arjan Cornelissen , Joao F. Doriguello , Alessandro Luongo , Ewin Tang

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 k-means algorithm is one of the well-known and most popular clustering algorithms. K-means seeks an optimal partition of the data by minimizing the sum of squared error with an iterative optimization procedure, which belongs to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Ehsan Saboori , Shafigh Parsazad , Anoosheh Sadeghi

In the past few years powerful generalizations to the Euclidean k-means problem have been made, such as Bregman clustering [7], co-clustering (i.e., simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of an input matrix) [9,18], and tensor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-09 Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra , Arindam Banerjee

Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms is a challenging and essential task. We consider the problem of clustering a set of points while satisfying fairness constraints. While there have been several attempts to capture group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Debajyoti Kar , Mert Kosan , Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Palash Dey , Swagato Sanyal