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We study a clustering problem where the goal is to maximize the coverage of the input points by $k$ chosen centers. Specifically, given a set of $n$ points $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, the goal is to pick $k$ centers $C \subseteq…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Arturs Backurs , Sariel Har-Peled

Clustering is an important technique for identifying structural information in large-scale data analysis, where the underlying dataset may be too large to store. In many applications, recent data can provide more accurate information and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-02 David P. Woodruff , Peilin Zhong , Samson Zhou

Clustering large, mixed data is a central problem in data mining. Many approaches adopt the idea of k-means, and hence are sensitive to initialisation, detect only spherical clusters, and require a priori the unknown number of clusters. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Joshua Tobin , Mimi Zhang

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

Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a simple polygon with $m$ vertices and let $P$ be a set of $n$ points inside $\mathcal{P}$. We prove that there exists, for any $\varepsilon>0$, a set $\mathcal{C} \subset P$ of size $O(1/\varepsilon^2)$ such that the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Mark de Berg , Leonidas Theocharous

Coreset is usually a small weighted subset of $n$ input points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, that provably approximates their loss function for a given set of queries (models, classifiers, etc.). Coresets become increasingly common in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Dan Feldman

The problem of automatically clustering data is an age old problem. People have created numerous algorithms to tackle this problem. The execution time of any of this algorithm grows with the number of input points and the number of cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Aditya AV Sastry , Kalyan Netti

We present an algorithm for computing $\epsilon$-coresets for $(k, \ell)$-median clustering of polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the Fr\'echet distance. This type of clustering is an adaption of Euclidean $k$-median clustering: we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Maike Buchin , Dennis Rohde

Many application areas collect unstructured trajectory data. In subtrajectory clustering, one is interested to find patterns in this data using a hybrid combination of segmentation and clustering. We analyze two variants of this problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel

Two important optimization problems in the analysis of geometric data sets are clustering and sketching. Here, clustering refers to the problem of partitioning some input metric measure space (mm-space) into k clusters, minimizing some…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Facundo Mémoli , Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Kritika Singhal

Clustering multi-dimensional points is a fundamental task in many fields, and density-based clustering supports many applications as it can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes. This paper addresses the problem of Density-Peaks Clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Daichi Amagata , Takahiro Hara

Max-k-Cut and correlation clustering are fundamental graph partitioning problems. For a graph with G=(V,E) with n vertices, the methods with the best approximation guarantees for Max-k-Cut and the Max-Agree variant of correlation clustering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

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

We design coresets for Ordered k-Median, a generalization of classical clustering problems such as k-Median and k-Center, that offers a more flexible data analysis, like easily combining multiple objectives (e.g., to increase fairness or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Vladimir Braverman , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

We study efficient algorithms for the Euclidean $k$-Center problem, focusing on the regime of large $k$. We take the approach of data reduction by considering $\alpha$-coreset, which is a small subset $S$ of the dataset $P$ such that any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Arnold Filtser , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yi Li , Anurag Murty Naredla , Ioannis Psarros , Qiaoyuan Yang , Qin Zhang

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

We introduce fast algorithms for correlation clustering with respect to the Min Max objective that provide constant factor approximations on complete graphs. Our algorithms are the first purely combinatorial approximation algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

We study the problem of constructing coresets for $(k, z)$-clustering when the input dataset is corrupted by stochastic noise drawn from a known distribution. In this setting, evaluating the quality of a coreset is inherently challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lingxiao Huang , Zhize Li , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi , Runkai Yang , Haoyu Zhao

Coresets are modern data-reduction tools that are widely used in data analysis to improve efficiency in terms of running time, space and communication complexity. Our main result is a fast algorithm to construct a small coreset for k-Median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Vladimir Braverman , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu