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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

We consider fairness in submodular maximization subject to a knapsack constraint, a fundamental problem with various applications in economics, machine learning, and data mining. In the model, we are given a set of ground elements, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lijun Li , Chenyang Xu , Liuyi Yang , Ruilong Zhang

In the Non-Uniform $k$-Center problem, a generalization of the famous $k$-center clustering problem, we want to cover the given set of points in a metric space by finding a placement of balls with specified radii. In $t$-NU$k$C Problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Tanmay Inamdar , Kasturi Varadarajan

The popular K-means clustering algorithm potentially suffers from a major weakness for further analysis or interpretation. Some cluster may have disproportionately more (or fewer) points from one of the subpopulations in terms of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guancheng Zhou , Haiping Xu , Hongkang Xu , Chenyu Li , Donghui Yan

The goal of fair clustering is to find clusters such that the proportion of sensitive attributes (e.g., gender, race, etc.) in each cluster is similar to that of the entire dataset. Various fair clustering algorithms have been proposed that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-26 Jinwon Park , Kunwoong Kim , Jihu Lee , Yongdai Kim

In this work, we study the socially fair $k$-median/$k$-means problem. We are given a set of points $P$ in a metric space $\mathcal{X}$ with a distance function $d(.,.)$. There are $\ell$ groups: $P_1,\dotsc,P_{\ell} \subseteq P$. We are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dishant Goyal , Ragesh Jaiswal

The $k$-center problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem which asks to find $k$ centers such that the maximum distance of any input point in a set $P$ to its assigned center is minimized. The problem allows for elegant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

We give a local search based algorithm for $k$-median and $k$-means (and more generally for any $k$-clustering with $\ell_p$ norm cost function) from the perspective of individual fairness. More precisely, for a point $x$ in a point set $P$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sepideh Mahabadi , Ali Vakilian

In discrete k-center and k-median clustering, we are given a set of points P in a metric space M, and the task is to output a set C \subseteq ? P, |C| = k, such that the cost of clustering P using C is as small as possible. For k-center,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Nirman Kumar , Benjamin Raichel

Ensuring fairness in computational problems has emerged as a $key$ topic during recent years, buoyed by considerations for equitable resource distributions and social justice. It $is$ possible to incorporate fairness in computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abolfazl Asudeh , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Bhaskar DasGupta , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

The classical center based clustering problems such as $k$-means/median/center assume that the optimal clusters satisfy the locality property that the points in the same cluster are close to each other. A number of clustering problems arise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

A set of points $P$ in a metric space and a constant integer $k$ are given. The $k$-center problem finds $k$ points as centers among $P$, such that the maximum distance of any point of $P$ to their closest centers $(r)$ is minimized.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Sepideh Aghamolaei , Mohammad Ghodsi

Motivated by an application from geodesy, we introduce a novel clustering problem which is a $k$-center (or k-diameter) problem with a side constraint. For the side constraint, we are given an undirected connectivity graph $G$ on the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lukas Drexler , Jan Eube , Kelin Luo , Dorian Reineccius , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

We consider the $k$-min-sum-radii ($k$-MSR) clustering problem with fairness constraints. The $k$-min-sum-radii problem is a mixture of the classical $k$-center and $k$-median problems. We are given a set of points $P$ in a metric space and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lena Carta , Lukas Drexler , Annika Hennes , Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

The fairness of clustering algorithms has gained widespread attention across various areas, including machine learning, In this paper, we study fair $k$-means clustering in Euclidean space. Given a dataset comprising several groups, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Qingyuan Yang , Hu Ding

When selecting locations for a set of facilities, standard clustering algorithms may place unfair burden on some individuals and neighborhoods. We formulate a fairness concept that takes local population densities into account. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Christopher Jung , Sampath Kannan , Neil Lutz

We study the maximization version of the fundamental graph coloring problem. Here the goal is to color the vertices of a k-colorable graph with k colors so that a maximum fraction of edges are properly colored (i.e. their endpoints receive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop

Color quantization is an important operation with numerous applications in graphics and image processing. Most quantization methods are essentially based on data clustering algorithms. However, despite its popularity as a general purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-11-02 M. Emre Celebi

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

We present a scalable algorithm for the individually fair ($p$, $k$)-clustering problem introduced by Jung et al. and Mahabadi et al. Given $n$ points $P$ in a metric space, let $\delta(x)$ for $x\in P$ be the radius of the smallest ball…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 MohammadHossein Bateni , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alessandro Epasto , Silvio Lattanzi