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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

Coresets are among the most popular paradigms for summarizing data. In particular, there exist many high performance coresets for clustering problems such as $k$-means in both theory and practice. Curiously, there exists no work on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar

This paper provides new algorithms for distributed clustering for two popular center-based objectives, k-median and k-means. These algorithms have provable guarantees and improve communication complexity over existing approaches. Following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Maria Florina Balcan , Steven Ehrlich , Yingyu Liang

We study supervised learning problems using clustering constraints to impose structure on either features or samples, seeking to help both prediction and interpretation. The problem of clustering features arises naturally in text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Vincent Roulet , Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

In this work, we present a randomized coreset construction for projective clustering, which involves computing a set of $k$ closest $j$-dimensional linear (affine) subspaces of a given set of $n$ vectors in $d$ dimensions. Let $A \in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Rameshwar Pratap , Sandeep Sen

We study the problem of constructing $(1+\varepsilon)$-coresets for Euclidean $(k,z)$-clustering in the distributed setting, where $n$ data points are partitioned across $s$ sites. We focus on two prominent communication models: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Liudeng Wang , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

A coreset is a small set that can approximately preserve the structure of the original input data set. Therefore we can run our algorithm on a coreset so as to reduce the total computational complexity. Conventional coreset techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiaxiang Chen , Qingyuan Yang , Ruomin Huang , Hu Ding

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a set of objects with pairwise similarity information. Our aim is to partition these objects into clusters that match this information as closely as possible. More specifically, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jafar Jafarov

We introduce the concept of compressed convolution, a technique to convolve a given data set with a large number of non-orthogonal kernels. In typical applications our technique drastically reduces the effective number of computations. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-08 F. Elsner , B. D. Wandelt

We revisit the $(f,g)$-clustering problem that we introduced in a recent work [SODA'25], and which subsumes fundamental clustering problems such as $k$-Center, $k$-Median, Min-Sum of Radii, and Min-Load $k$-Clustering. This problem assigns…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Martin G. Herold , Evangelos Kipouridis , Joachim Spoerhase

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

This paper presents a neural network-based end-to-end clustering framework. We design a novel strategy to utilize the contrastive criteria for pushing data-forming clusters directly from raw data, in addition to learning a feature embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira

Recent work has proposed solving the k-means clustering problem on quantum computers via the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and coreset techniques. Although the current method demonstrates the possibility of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Canaan Yung , Muhammad Usman

We consider a novel clustering task in which clusters can have compositional relationships, e.g., one cluster contains images of rectangles, one contains images of circles, and a third (compositional) cluster contains images with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zeqian Li , Xinlu He , Jacob Whitehill

Quantum computing is anticipated to offer immense computational capabilities which could provide efficient solutions to many data science problems. However, the current generation of quantum devices are small and noisy, which makes it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Fanzhe Qu , Sarah M. Erfani , Muhammad Usman

We consider a weighted biasing scheme for galaxy clustering. This differs from previous treatments in the fact that the biased density field coincides with the background mass--density whenever the latter exceeds a given threshold value.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Catelan , P. Coles , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini

A coreset of a dataset with $n$ examples and $d$ features is a weighted subset of examples that is sufficient for solving downstream data analytic tasks. Nearly optimal constructions of coresets for least squares and $\ell_p$ linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

The article contains a preliminary glance at balanced clustering problems. Basic balanced structures and combinatorial balanced problems are briefly described. A special attention is targeted to various balance/unbalance indices (including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Mark Sh. Levin

In the Max-k-diameter problem, we are given a set of points in a metric space, and the goal is to partition the input points into k parts such that the maximum pairwise distance between points in the same part of the partition is minimized.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Henry Fleischmann , Kyrylo Karlov , Karthik C. S. , Ashwin Padaki , Stepan Zharkov

The input to the \emph{sets-$k$-means} problem is an integer $k\geq 1$ and a set $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1,\cdots,P_n\}$ of sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The goal is to compute a set $C$ of $k$ centers (points) in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Ibrahim Jubran , Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Dan Feldman