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We study the problem of minimizing a sum of convex objective functions where the components of the objective are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only communicate with their neighbors. The use of…

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The $k$-means problem is a classic objective for modeling clustering in a metric space. Given a set of points in a metric space, the goal is to find $k$ representative points so as to minimize the sum of the squared distances from each…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We introduce space-efficient plane-sweep algorithms for basic planar geometric problems. It is assumed that the input is in a read-only array of $n$ items and that the available workspace is $\Theta(s)$ bits, where $\lg n \leq s \leq n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Amr Elmasry , Frank Kammer

This paper develops an efficient algorithm for computing the Euclidean projection onto the top-k-sum constraint, a key operation in financial risk management and matrix optimization problems. Existing projection methods rely on sorting and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Jianting Pan , Ming Yan

We consider the following geometric optimization problem: find a convex polygon of maximum area contained in a given simple polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices. We give a randomized near-linear-time $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Sergio Cabello , Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Maria Saumell , Pavel Valtr

This paper presents a new extension of the classical Heron problem, termed the generalized $(k,m)$-Heron problem, which seeks an optimal configuration among $k$ feasible and $m$ target non-empty closed convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Triloki Nath , Manohar Choudhary , Ram K. Pandey

The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

In the Euclidean $k$-center problem in sliding window model, input points are given in a data stream and the goal is to find the $k$ smallest congruent balls whose union covers the $N$ most recent points of the stream. In this model, input…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Sang-Sub Kim

We consider a classical k-center problem in trees. Let T be a tree of n vertices and every vertex has a nonnegative weight. The problem is to find k centers on the edges of T such that the maximum weighted distance from all vertices to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Haitao Wang , Jingru Zhang

The Continuous p-Dispersion Problem (CpDP) with boundary constraints asks for the placement of a fixed number of points in a compact subset of Euclidean space such that the minimum distance between any two points, as well as the points and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Sanjay Manoj , Melkior Ornik

We study the problem of computing a convex region with bounded area and diameter that contains the maximum number of points from a given point set $P$. We show that this problem can be solved in $O(n^6k)$ time and $O(n^3k)$ space, where $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Gianmarco Picarella , Marc van Kreveld , Frank Staals , Sjoerd de Vries

This paper presents how to perform minimax optimal classification, regression, and density estimation based on fixed-$k$ nearest neighbor (NN) searches. We consider a distributed learning scenario, in which a massive dataset is split into…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-11 J. Jon Ryu , Young-Han Kim

We study the $k^-$-star partition problem that aims to find a minimum collection of vertex-disjoint stars, each having at most $k$ vertices to cover all vertices in a simple undirected graph $G = (V, E)$. Our main contribution is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Mingyang Gong , Guohui Lin , Brendan Mumey

We study the so-called distributed two-time-scale gradient method for solving convex optimization problems over a network of agents when the communication bandwidth between the nodes is limited, and so information that is exchanged between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Thinh T. Doan , Urbashi Mitra

We study the problem of minimum enclosing rectangle with outliers, which asks to find, for a given set of $n$ planar points, a rectangle with minimum area that encloses at least $(n-t)$ points. The uncovered points are regarded as outliers.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zhengyang Guo , Yi Li

This paper considers a movement minimization problem for mobile sensors. Given a set of $n$ point targets, the $k$-Sink Minimum Movement Target Coverage Problem is to schedule mobile sensors, initially located at $k$ base stations, to cover…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Nonthaphat Wongwattanakij , Nattawut Phetmak , Chaiporn Jaikaeo , Jittat Fakcharoenphol

We consider the planar Euclidean two-center problem in which given $n$ points in the plane we are to find two congruent disks of the smallest radius covering the points. We present a deterministic $O(n \log n)$-time algorithm for the case…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Jongmin Choi , Hee-Kap Ahn

For a set of n points in the plane, we consider the axis--aligned (p,k)-Box Covering problem: Find p axis-aligned, pairwise-disjoint boxes that together contain n-k points. In this paper, we consider the boxes to be either squares or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Hee-Kap Ahn , Sang Won Bae , Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Sang-Sub Kim , Matias Korman , Iris Reinbacher , Wanbin Son

The $K$-nearest neighbors is a basic problem in machine learning with numerous applications. In this problem, given a (training) set of $n$ data points with labels and a query point $p$, we want to assign a label to $p$ based on the labels…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Reza Fathi , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane and a multiset $W$ of $k$ weights with $k\leq n$, we assign each weight in $W$ to a distinct point in $P$ to minimize the maximum weighted distance from the weighted center of $P$ to any point in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Eunjin Oh , Hee-Kap Ahn