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The most well known and ubiquitous clustering problem encountered in nearly every branch of science is undoubtedly $k$-means: given a set of data points and a parameter $k$, select $k$ centres and partition the data points into $k$ clusters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Zachary Friggstad , Mohsen Rezapour , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

In the classic $k$-center problem, we are given a metric graph, and the objective is to open $k$ nodes as centers such that the maximum distance from any vertex to its closest center is minimized. In this paper, we consider two important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Danny Z. Chen , Jian Li , Hongyu Liang , Haitao Wang

Given a stream of points in a metric space, is it possible to maintain a constant approximate clustering by changing the cluster centers only a small number of times during the entire execution of the algorithm? This question received…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson

We design replicable algorithms in the context of statistical clustering under the recently introduced notion of replicability from Impagliazzo et al. [2022]. According to this definition, a clustering algorithm is replicable if, with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hossein Esfandiari , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni , Grigoris Velegkas , Felix Zhou

The k-means++ seeding algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms that is used for finding the initial $k$ centers when using the k-means heuristic. The algorithm is a simple sampling procedure and can be described as follows: {quote}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Ragesh Jaiswal , Prachi Jain , Saumya Yadav

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning. Previous research has focused on learning-augmented $k$-means in Euclidean metrics, limiting its applicability to complex data representations. In this paper, we generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglin Fan , Kijun Shin

$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Qifa Ke , Gang Zeng , Shipeng Li

The $k$-Facility Location problem is a generalization of the classical problems $k$-Median and Facility Location. The goal is to select a subset of at most $k$ facilities that minimizes the total cost of opened facilities and established…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jarosław Byrka , Krzysztof Fleszar , Bartosz Rybicki , Joachim Spoerhase

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

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 original k-means clustering method works only if the exact vectors representing the data points are known. Therefore calculating the distances from the centroids needs vector operations, since the average of abstract data points is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Balázs Szalkai

We show how to approximate a data matrix $\mathbf{A}$ with a much smaller sketch $\mathbf{\tilde A}$ that can be used to solve a general class of constrained k-rank approximation problems to within $(1+\epsilon)$ error. Importantly, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Michael B. Cohen , Sam Elder , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Madalina Persu

Spherical k-means is a widely used clustering algorithm for sparse and high-dimensional data such as document vectors. While several improvements and accelerations have been introduced for the original k-means algorithm, not all easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Erich Schubert , Andreas Lang , Gloria Feher

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

We consider a robust variant of the classical $k$-median problem, introduced by Anthony et al. \cite{AnthonyGGN10}. In the \emph{Robust $k$-Median problem}, we are given an $n$-vertex metric space $(V,d)$ and $m$ client sets $\set{S_i…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Sayan Bhattacharya , Parinya Chalermsook , Kurt Mehlhorn , Adrian Neumann

We design a new algorithm for the Euclidean $k$-means problem that operates in the local model of differential privacy. Unlike in the non-private literature, differentially private algorithms for the $k$-means objective incur both additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Uri Stemmer

We introduce a new $(\epsilon_p, \delta_p)$-differentially private algorithm for the $k$-means clustering problem. Given a dataset in Euclidean space, the $k$-means clustering problem requires one to find $k$ points in that space such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Anamay Chaturvedi , Huy Nguyen , Eric Xu

In this article, we consider the following capacitated covering problem. We are given a set $P$ of $n$ points and a set $\mathcal{B}$ of balls from some metric space, and a positive integer $U$ that represents the capacity of each of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Santanu Bhowmick , Tanmay Inamdar , Kasturi Varadarajan

In this paper we initiate the study of the heterogeneous capacitated $k$-center problem: given a metric space $X = (F \cup C, d)$, and a collection of capacities. The goal is to open each capacity at a unique facility location in $F$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Amit Kumar

Center-based clustering techniques are fundamental in some areas of machine learning such as data summarization. Generic $k$-center algorithms can produce biased cluster representatives so there has been a recent interest in fair $k$-center…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jinxiang Gan , Mordecai Golin , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang