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In this paper, we study the problem of {\em $k$-center clustering with outliers}. The problem has many important applications in real world, but the presence of outliers can significantly increase the computational complexity. Though a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Hu Ding , Ruomin Huang , Kai Liu , Haikuo Yu , Zixiu Wang

We consider a generalization of the fundamental $k$-means clustering for data with incomplete or corrupted entries. When data objects are represented by points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, a data point is said to be incomplete when some of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Eduard Eiben , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , William Lochet , Fahad Panolan , Kirill Simonov

Traditional k-means clustering underperforms on non-convex shapes and requires the number of clusters k to be specified in advance. We propose a simple geometric enhancement: after standard k-means, each cluster center is assigned a radius…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Stefan Kober

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 construct near-optimal coresets for kernel density estimates for points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the kernel is positive definite. Specifically we show a polynomial time construction for a coreset of size $O(\sqrt{d}/\varepsilon\cdot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jeff M. Phillips , Wai Ming Tai

We devise $\epsilon$-coresets for robust $(k,z)$-Clustering with $m$ outliers through black-box reductions to vanilla case. Given an $\epsilon$-coreset construction for vanilla clustering with size $N$, we construct coresets of size $N\cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Jianing Lou

Center-based clustering is a pivotal primitive for unsupervised learning and data analysis. A popular variant is undoubtedly the k-means problem, which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric space and a parameter $k<|P|$, requires to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Enrico Dandolo , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance across domains but face scalability challenges in real-time or resource-constrained scenarios. To address this, we propose Correlation of Loss Differences (CLD), a simple and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Manish Nagaraj , Deepak Ravikumar , Kaushik Roy

Motivated by recent work in computational social choice, we extend the metric distortion framework to clustering problems. Given a set of $n$ agents located in an underlying metric space, our goal is to partition them into $k$ clusters,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jakob Burkhardt , Ioannis Caragiannis , Karl Fehrs , Matteo Russo , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Sudarshan Shyam

We present a $k$-means-based clustering algorithm, which optimizes the mean square error, for given cluster sizes. A straightforward application is balanced clustering, where the sizes of each cluster are equal. In the $k$-means assignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Mikko I. Malinen , Pasi Fränti

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

Motivated by the increasing availability of low- and mixed-precision arithmetic on modern hardware, we develop mixed-precision variants of Lloyd's algorithm for k-means clustering. The main ingredient is a family of mixed-precision kernels…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erin Carson , Xinye Chen , Xiaobo Liu

Clustering problems are well-studied in a variety of fields such as data science, operations research, and computer science. Such problems include variants of centre location problems, $k$-median, and $k$-means to name a few. In some cases,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Zachary Friggstad , Kamyar Khodamoradi , Mohsen Rezapour , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

We refine and generalize what is known about coresets for classification problems via the sensitivity sampling framework. Such coresets seek the smallest possible subsets of input data, so one can optimize a loss function on the coreset and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Meysam Alishahi , Jeff M. Phillips

The classical $k$-means algorithm for partitioning $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$ clusters is one of the most popular and widely spread clustering methods. The need to respect prescribed lower bounds on the cluster sizes has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Steffen Borgwardt , Andreas Brieden , Peter Gritzmann

In real world, our datasets often contain outliers. Moreover, the outliers can seriously affect the final machine learning result. Most existing algorithms for handling outliers take high time complexities (e.g. quadratic or cubic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hu Ding , Zixiu Wang

The analysis of continously larger datasets is a task of major importance in a wide variety of scientific fields. In this sense, cluster analysis algorithms are a key element of exploratory data analysis, due to their easiness in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-10 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , Jose A. Lozano

Recent years have witnessed an increasing popularity of algorithm design for distributed data, largely due to the fact that massive datasets are often collected and stored in different locations. In the distributed setting communication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Sudipto Guha , Yi Li , Qin Zhang

We define the notion of a well-clusterable data set combining the point of view of the objective of $k$-means clustering algorithm (minimising the centric spread of data elements) and common sense (clusters shall be separated by gaps). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

Given a set of points, clustering consists of finding a partition of a point set into $k$ clusters such that the center to which a point is assigned is as close as possible. Most commonly, centers are points themselves, which leads to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Matilde Fjeldsø Larsen , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Mads Bech Toftrup