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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

Given points from an arbitrary metric space and a sequence of point updates sent by an adversary, what is the minimum recourse per update (i.e., the minimum number of changes needed to the set of centers after an update), in order to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sebastian Forster , Antonis Skarlatos

This paper proposes a centroid-based clustering algorithm which is capable of clustering data-points with n-features, without having to specify the number of clusters to be formed. The core logic behind the algorithm is a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Rabindra Lamsal , Shubham Katiyar

In this paper, we study clustering with respect to the k-modes objective function, a natural formulation of clustering for categorical data. One of the main contributions of this paper is to establish the connection between k-modes and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He

The $k$-center problem is a canonical and long-studied facility location and clustering problem with many applications in both its symmetric and asymmetric forms. Both versions of the problem have tight approximation factors on worst case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Maria-Florina Balcan , Nika Haghtalab , Colin White

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

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

In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for well-known clustering problems, namely $k$-Median and $k$-Means. In $k$-Median, the input consists of a set $X$ of $n$ points belonging to a metric space, and the task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Nidhi Purohit , Saket Saurabh

We consider the approximability of center-based clustering problems where the points to be clustered lie in a metric space, and no candidate centers are specified. We call such problems "continuous", to distinguish from "discrete"…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Maryam Negahbani , Ankita Sarkar

We study discrete k-clustering problems in general metric spaces that are constrained by a combination of two different fairness conditions within the demographic fairness model. Given a metric space (P,d), where every point in P is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nicole Funk , Annika Hennes , Johanna Hillebrand , Sarah Sturm

$k$-Clustering in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (e.g., $k$-median and $k$-means) is a fundamental machine learning problem. While near-linear time approximation algorithms were known in the classical setting for a dataset with cardinality $n$, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yecheng Xue , Xiaoyu Chen , Tongyang Li , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

Capacitated fair-range $k$-clustering generalizes classical $k$-clustering by incorporating both capacity constraints and demographic fairness. In this setting, each facility has a capacity limit and may belong to one or more demographic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Ameet Gadekar , Suhas Thejaswi

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

In metric $k$-clustering, we are given as input a set of $n$ points in a general metric space, and we have to pick $k$ centers and cluster the input points around these chosen centers, so as to minimize an appropriate objective function. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Ermiya Farokhnejad

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, and has been studied widely both as a problem of learning mixture models and as an optimization problem. In this paper, we study clustering with respect the emph{k-median}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Ramgopal Mettu , Greg Plaxton

In this paper, we study the problem of fair clustering on the $k-$center objective. In fair clustering, the input is $N$ points, each belonging to at least one of $l$ protected groups, e.g. male, female, Asian, Hispanic. The objective is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Elfarouk Harb , Ho Shan Lam

We consider online $k$-means clustering where each new point is assigned to the nearest cluster center, after which the algorithm may update its centers. The loss incurred is the sum of squared distances from new points to their assigned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Robi Bhattacharjee , Jacob Imola , Michal Moshkovitz , Sanjoy Dasgupta

One key use of k-means clustering is to identify cluster prototypes which can serve as representative points for a dataset. However, a drawback of using k-means cluster centers as representative points is that such points distort the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-15 Arvind Krishna , Simon Mak , Roshan Joseph

We propose a novel clustering model encompassing two well-known clustering models: k-center clustering and k-median clustering. In the Hybrid k-Clusetring problem, given a set P of points in R^d, an integer k, and a non-negative real r, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

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