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The metric $k$-median problem is a textbook clustering problem. As input, we are given a metric space $V$ of size $n$ and an integer $k$, and our task is to find a subset $S \subseteq V$ of at most $k$ `centers' that minimizes the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Martín Costa , Ermiya Farokhnejad

We give the first near-linear time $(1+\eps)$-approximation algorithm for $k$-median clustering of polygonal trajectories under the discrete Fr\'{e}chet distance, and the first polynomial time $(1+\eps)$-approximation algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Abhinandan Nath , Erin Taylor

In this paper, we give a conditional lower bound of $n^{\Omega(k)}$ on running time for the classic k-median and k-means clustering objectives (where n is the size of the input), even in low-dimensional Euclidean space of dimension four,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Arnaud de Mesmay , Eva Rotenberg , Alan Roytman

We study approximation algorithms for the socially fair $(\ell_p, k)$-clustering problem with $m$ groups, whose special cases include the socially fair $k$-median ($p=1$) and socially fair $k$-means ($p=2$) problems. We present (1) a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Mohit Singh , Santosh S. Vempala

In general, the clustering problem is NP-hard, and global optimality cannot be established for non-trivial instances. For high-dimensional data, distance-based methods for clustering or classification face an additional difficulty, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Tsvetan Asamov , Adi Ben-Israel

We consider a variant of the $k$-center clustering problem in $\Re^d$, where the centers can be divided into two subsets, one, the red centers of size $p$, and the other, the blue centers of size $q$, where $p+q=k$, and such that each red…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-28 M. Eskandari , B. B. Khare , N. Kumar

We study (Euclidean) $k$-median and $k$-means with constraints in the streaming model. There have been recent efforts to design unified algorithms to solve constrained $k$-means problems without using knowledge of the specific constraint at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

The $(k, z)$-Clustering problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ has been extensively studied. Given the scale of data involved, compression methods for the Euclidean $(k, z)$-Clustering problem, such as data compression and dimension…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xiaoyi Zhu , Yuxiang Tian , Lingxiao Huang , Zengfeng Huang

We consider the problem of Gaussian mixture clustering in the high-dimensional limit where the data consists of $m$ points in $n$ dimensions, $n,m \rightarrow \infty$ and $\alpha = m/n$ stays finite. Using exact but non-rigorous methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-24 Thibault Lesieur , Caterina De Bacco , Jess Banks , Florent Krzakala , Cris Moore , Lenka Zdeborová

Correlation clustering is a widely studied framework for clustering based on pairwise similarity and dissimilarity scores, but its best approximation algorithms rely on impractical linear programming relaxations. We present faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nate Veldt

This paper studies the fair range clustering problem in which the data points are from different demographic groups and the goal is to pick $k$ centers with the minimum clustering cost such that each group is at least minimally represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Sèdjro S. Hotegni , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ali Vakilian

Clustering is a fundamental problem in machine learning where distance-based approaches have dominated the field for many decades. This set of problems is often tackled by partitioning the data into K clusters where the number of clusters…

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

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning. Previous research has focused on learning-augmented $k$-means in Euclidean metrics, limiting its applicability to complex data representations. In this paper, we generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglin Fan , Kijun Shin

The impact of an extreme climate event depends strongly on its geographical scale. Max-stable processes can be used for the statistical investigation of climate extremes and their spatial dependencies on a continuous area. Most existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-14 Justus Contzen , Thorsten Dickhaus , Gerrit Lohmann

We incorporate group fairness into the algorithmic centroid clustering problem, where $k$ centers are to be located to serve $n$ agents distributed in a metric space. We refine the notion of proportional fairness proposed in [Chen et al.,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Bo Li , Lijun Li , Ankang Sun , Chenhao Wang , Yingfan Wang

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

In real applications, database systems should be able to manage and process data with uncertainty. Any real dataset may have missing or rounded values, also the values of data may change by time. So, it becomes important to handle these…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Sharareh Alipour

We consider the Euclidean $k$-means clustering problem in a dynamic setting, where we have to explicitly maintain a solution (a set of $k$ centers) $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ subject to point insertions/deletions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yaonan Jin , Jianing Lou

Center-based clustering is a fundamental primitive for data analysis and becomes very challenging for large datasets. In this paper, we focus on the popular $k$-median and $k$-means variants which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Alessio Mazzetto , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci