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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

We study core-set construction algorithms for the task of Diversity Maximization under fairness/partition constraint. Given a set of points $P$ in a metric space partitioned into $m$ groups, and given $k_1,\ldots,k_m$, the goal of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Sepideh Mahabadi , Stojan Trajanovski

Coresets are one of the central methods to facilitate the analysis of large data sets. We continue a recent line of research applying the theory of coresets to logistic regression. First, we show a negative result, namely, that no strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alexander Munteanu , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Christian Sohler , David P. Woodruff

In sketched clustering, a dataset of $T$ samples is first sketched down to a vector of modest size, from which the centroids are subsequently extracted. Advantages include i) reduced storage complexity and ii) centroid extraction complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Evan Byrne , Antoine Chatalic , Remi Gribonval , Philip Schniter

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

Center-based clustering is a fundamental primitive for data analysis and becomes very challenging for large datasets. In this paper, we focus on the popular $k$-median and $k$-means variants which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Alessio Mazzetto , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

An $\varepsilon$-coreset for Least-Mean-Squares (LMS) of a matrix $A\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n\times d}$ is a small weighted subset of its rows that approximates the sum of squared distances from its rows to every affine $k$-dimensional subspace of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Alaa Maalouf , Adiel Statman , Dan Feldman

The proliferation of large data sets and Bayesian inference techniques motivates demand for better data sparsification. Coresets provide a principled way of summarizing a large dataset via a smaller one that is guaranteed to match the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sebastian Claici , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon

For a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the Euclidean $k$-means problems consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of distances squared from each data point to its closest center is minimized. Coresets are one the main tools…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic , Leonhard Sidl

We consider the problem of subspace clustering: given points that lie on or near the union of many low-dimensional linear subspaces, recover the subspaces. To this end, one first identifies sets of points close to the same subspace and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-03 Dohyung Park , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model we assume that we have access to one versus all queries that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Konstantin Voevodski , Maria-Florina Balcan , Heiko Roglin , Shang-Hua Teng , Yu Xia

We study in this paper the problem of maintaining a solution to $k$-median and $k$-means clustering in a fully dynamic setting. To do so, we present an algorithm to efficiently maintain a coreset, a compressed version of the dataset, that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Max Dupré la Tour , Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic

We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Hoai-An Nguyen , Chen Wang , Yubo Zhang , Samson Zhou

In a geometric $k$-clustering problem the goal is to partition a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$ subsets such that a certain cost function of the clustering is minimized. We present data structures for orthogonal range-clustering…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Mark de Berg , Kevin Buchin , Mehran Mehr , Ali D. Mehrabi

Multiple-view triangulation by $\ell_{\infty}$ minimisation has become established in computer vision. State-of-the-art $\ell_{\infty}$ triangulation algorithms exploit the quasiconvexity of the cost function to derive iterative update…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Qianggong Zhang , Tat-Jun Chin

The present paper constructs coresets for weight-constrained anisotropic assignment and clustering. In contrast to the well-studied unconstrained least-squares clustering problem, approximating the centroids of the clusters no longer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Maximilian Fiedler , Peter Gritzmann

Metric magnitude is a measure of the "size" of point clouds with many desirable geometric properties. It has been adapted to various mathematical contexts and recent work suggests that it can enhance machine learning and optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Rayna Andreeva , James Ward , Primoz Skraba , Jie Gao , Rik Sarkar

We present novel bounds for coreset construction, feature selection, and dimensionality reduction for logistic regression. All three approaches can be thought of as sketching the logistic regression inputs. On the coreset construction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gregory Dexter , Rajiv Khanna , Jawad Raheel , Petros Drineas

In the standard planar $k$-center clustering problem, one is given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, and the goal is to select $k$ center points, so as to minimize the maximum distance over points in $P$ to their nearest center. Here we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Hongyao Huang , Georgiy Klimenko , Benjamin Raichel

We study the robust geometric median problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, with a focus on coreset construction.A coreset is a compact summary of a dataset $P$ of size $n$ that approximates the robust cost for all centers $c$ within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ziyi Fang , Lingxiao Huang , Runkai Yang