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Constructing small-sized coresets for various clustering problems in different metric spaces has attracted significant attention for the past decade. A central problem in the coreset literature is to understand what is the best possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Xuan Wu

Given a set of points in a metric space, the $(k,z)$-clustering problem consists of finding a set of $k$ points called centers, such that the sum of distances raised to the power of $z$ of every data point to its closest center is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Kasper Green Larsen , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We consider the problem of constructing small coresets for $k$-Median in Euclidean spaces. Given a large set of data points $P\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, a coreset is a much smaller set $S\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, so that the $k$-Median costs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lingxiao Huang , Ruiyuan Huang , Zengfeng Huang , Xuan Wu

In this work, we study the $k$-means cost function. Given a dataset $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and an integer $k$, the goal of the Euclidean $k$-means problem is to find a set of $k$ centers $C \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ such that $\Phi(C, X)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Anup Bhattacharya , Yoav Freund , Ragesh Jaiswal

Coresets are arguably the most popular compression paradigm for center-based clustering objectives such as $k$-means. Given a point set $P$, a coreset $\Omega$ is a small, weighted summary that preserves the cost of all candidate solutions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Nikhil Bansal , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Milind Prabhu , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

This paper considers coresets for the robust $k$-medians problem with $m$ outliers, and new constructions in various metric spaces are obtained. Specifically, for metric spaces with a bounded VC or doubling dimension $d$, the coreset size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingxiao Huang , Zhenyu Jiang , Yi Li , Xuan Wu

The $k$-median and $k$-means clustering objectives are classic objectives for modeling clustering in a metric space. Given a set of points in a metric space, the goal of the $k$-median (resp. $k$-means) problem is to find $k$ representative…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We consider coresets for $k$-clustering problems, where the goal is to assign points to centers minimizing powers of distances. A popular example is the $k$-median objective $\sum_{p}\min_{c\in C}dist(p,C)$. Given a point set $P$, a coreset…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Andrew Draganov , Matteo Russo , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

The Euclidean $k$-median problem is defined in the following manner: given a set $\mathcal{X}$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, and an integer $k$, find a set $C \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ of $k$ points (called centers) such that the cost…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Anup Bhattacharya , Dishant Goyal , Ragesh Jaiswal

We obtain the first strong coresets for the $k$-median and subspace approximation problems with sum of distances objective function, on $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, with a number of weighted points that is independent of both $n$ and $d$;…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Christian Sohler , David P. Woodruff

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

Given a collection of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the $(k,z)$-clustering problem is to find a subset of $k$ "centers" that minimizes the sum of the $z$-th powers of the Euclidean distance of each point to the closest center.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Lingxiao Huang , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

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

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

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

$\renewcommand{\Re}{{\rm I\!\hspace{-0.025em} R}} \newcommand{\eps}{{\varepsilon}} \newcommand{\Coreset}{{\mathcal{S}}} $ In this paper, we show the existence of small coresets for the problems of computing $k$-median and $k$-means…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Sariel Har-Peled , Soham Mazumdar

The Euclidean $k$-means problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in the theoretical computer science, machine learning and the computational geometry communities. In this problem, we are given a set of $n$ points in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Pranjal Awasthi , Moses Charikar , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Ali Kemal Sinop

The input to the $k$-median for lines problem is a set $L$ of $n$ lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and the goal is to compute a set of $k$ centers (points) in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the sum of squared distances over every line in $L$ and its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yair Marom , Dan Feldman

Given a metric space, the $(k,z)$-clustering problem consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of the of distances raised to the power $z$ of every point to its closest center is minimized. This encapsulates the famous $k$-median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

In the (continuous) Euclidean $k$-center problem, given $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and an integer $k$, the goal is to find $k$ center points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimize the maximum Euclidean distance from any input point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Lotte Blank , Karl Bringmann , Parinya Chalermsook , Karthik C. S. , Benedikt Kolbe , Hung Le , Geert van Wordragen
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