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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 study the problem of constructing $\varepsilon$-coresets for the $(k, z)$-clustering problem in a doubling metric $M(X, d)$. An $\varepsilon$-coreset is a weighted subset $S\subseteq X$ with weight function $w : S \rightarrow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Jian Li , Xuan Wu

We study fair clustering problems as proposed by Chierichetti et al. (NIPS 2017). Here, points have a sensitive attribute and all clusters in the solution are required to be balanced with respect to it (to counteract any form of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Melanie Schmidt , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Christian Sohler

The present paper constructs coresets for weight-constrained anisotropic assignment and clustering. In contrast to the well-studied unconstrained least-squares clustering problem, approximating the centroids of the clusters no longer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Maximilian Fiedler , Peter Gritzmann

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

Missing values frequently arise in modern biomedical studies due to various reasons, including missing tests or complex profiling technologies for different omics measurements. Missing values can complicate the application of clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Shahin Boluki , Siamak Zamani Dadaneh , Xiaoning Qian , Edward R. Dougherty

Given a set of $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, the Euclidean $k$-means problem (resp. the Euclidean $k$-median problem) consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of squared distances (resp. sum of distances) from every point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Kasper Green Larsen , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar

Scaling clustering algorithms to massive data sets is a challenging task. Recently, several successful approaches based on data summarization methods, such as coresets and sketches, were proposed. While these techniques provide provably…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Silvio Lattanzi

In projective clustering we are given a set of n points in $R^d$ and wish to cluster them to a set $S$ of $k$ linear subspaces in $R^d$ according to some given distance function. An $\eps$-coreset for this problem is a weighted (scaled)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Adiel Statman , Liat Rozenberg , Dan Feldman

Specific data compression techniques, formalized by the concept of coresets, proved to be powerful for many optimization problems. In fact, while tightly controlling the approximation error, coresets may lead to significant speed up of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Maximilian Fiedler , Peter Gritzmann , Fabian Klemm

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

Centroid based clustering methods such as k-means, k-medoids and k-centers are heavily applied as a go-to tool in exploratory data analysis. In many cases, those methods are used to obtain representative centroids of the data manifold for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Randall Balestriero , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Richard Baraniuk

We present methods for k-means clustering on a stream with a focus on providing fast responses to clustering queries. Compared to the current state-of-the-art, our methods provide substantial improvement in the query time for cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yu Zhang , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura

Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Hoai-An Nguyen , Chen Wang , Yubo Zhang , Samson Zhou

We obtain the first strong coresets for the $k$-median and subspace approximation problems with sum of distances objective function, on $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, with a number of weighted points that is independent of both $n$ and $d$;…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Christian Sohler , David P. Woodruff

Clustering is a key task in machine learning, with $k$-means being widely used for its simplicity and effectiveness. While 1D clustering is common, existing methods often fail to exploit the structure of 1D data, leading to inefficiencies.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jake Hyun

We consider the $k$-means clustering problem in the dynamic streaming setting, where points from a discrete Euclidean space $\{1, 2, \ldots, \Delta\}^d$ can be dynamically inserted to or deleted from the dataset. For this problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Wei Hu , Zhao Song , Lin F. Yang , Peilin Zhong

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

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang