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We study the problem of graph clustering under a broad class of objectives in which the quality of a cluster is defined based on the ratio between the number of edges in the cluster, and the total weight of vertices in the cluster. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Christian Sohler

The learning of mixture models can be viewed as a clustering problem. Indeed, given data samples independently generated from a mixture of distributions, we often would like to find the {\it correct target clustering} of the samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-26 Zhaoqiang Liu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Clustering, a fundamental activity in unsupervised learning, is notoriously difficult when the feature space is high-dimensional. Fortunately, in many realistic scenarios, only a handful of features are relevant in distinguishing clusters.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Zhiyue Zhang , Kenneth Lange , Jason Xu

We study k-median clustering under the sequential no-substitution setting. In this setting, a data stream is sequentially observed, and some of the points are selected by the algorithm as cluster centers. However, a point can be selected as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tom Hess , Michal Moshkovitz , Sivan Sabato

Constrained clustering problems generalize classical clustering formulations, e.g., $k$-median, $k$-means, by imposing additional constraints on the feasibility of clustering. There has been significant recent progress in obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

Following recent advances in combining approximation algorithms with fixed-parameter tractability (FPT), we study FPT-time approximation algorithms for minimum-norm $k$-clustering problems, parameterized by the number $k$ of open…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Han Dai , Shi Li , Sijin Peng

We present a scalable algorithm for the individually fair ($p$, $k$)-clustering problem introduced by Jung et al. and Mahabadi et al. Given $n$ points $P$ in a metric space, let $\delta(x)$ for $x\in P$ be the radius of the smallest ball…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 MohammadHossein Bateni , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alessandro Epasto , Silvio Lattanzi

We consider clustering in group decision making where the opinions are given by pairwise comparison matrices. In particular, the k-medoids model is suggested to classify the matrices since it has a linear programming problem formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Kolos Csaba Ágoston , Sándor Bozóki , László Csató

We investigate $k$-means clustering in the online no-substitution setting when the input arrives in \emph{arbitrary} order. In this setting, points arrive one after another, and the algorithm is required to instantly decide whether to take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Robi Bhattacharjee , Michal Moshkovitz

Clustering algorithms remain valuable tools for grouping and summarizing the most important aspects of data. Example areas where this is the case include image segmentation, dimension reduction, signals analysis, model order reduction,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Guy B. Oldaker , Maria Emelianenko

Clustering algorithms are ubiquitous in modern data science pipelines, and are utilized in numerous fields ranging from biology to facility location. Due to their widespread use, especially in societal resource allocation problems, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anshuman Chhabra , Adish Singla , Prasant Mohapatra

In this work, we study a range of constrained versions of the $k$-supplier and $k$-center problems such as: capacitated, fault-tolerant, fair, etc. These problems fall under a broad framework of constrained clustering. A unified framework…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Dishant Goyal , Ragesh Jaiswal

The study of fair algorithms has become mainstream in machine learning and artificial intelligence due to its increasing demand in dealing with biases and discrimination. Along this line, researchers have considered fair versions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Kirill Simonov

We address general-shaped clustering problems under very weak parametric assumptions with a two-step hybrid robust clustering algorithm based on trimmed k-means and hierarchical agglomeration. The algorithm has low computational complexity…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Luca Insolia , Domenico Perrotta

We study coresets for clustering with capacity and fairness constraints. Our main result is a near-linear time algorithm to construct $\tilde{O}(k^2\varepsilon^{-2z-2})$-sized $\varepsilon$-coresets for capacitated $(k,z)$-clustering which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Lingxiao Huang , Pinyan Lu , Xuan Wu

Clustering is one of the most fundamental problems in unsupervised learning with a large number of applications. However, classical clustering algorithms assume that the data is static, thus failing to capture many real-world applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Dariusz Leniowski , Christian Schulz , Alexander Svozil

Hierarchical clustering is a popular unsupervised data analysis method. For many real-world applications, we would like to exploit prior information about the data that imposes constraints on the clustering hierarchy, and is not captured by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Moses Charikar

We consider the online $k$-median clustering problem in which $n$ points arrive online and must be irrevocably assigned to a cluster on arrival. As there are lower bound instances that show that an online algorithm cannot achieve a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman , Kirk Pruhs

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…

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