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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 consider the classic Euclidean $k$-median and $k$-means objective on data streams, where the goal is to provide a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation to the optimal $k$-median or $k$-means solution, while using as little memory as possible.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

The k-means algorithm is a well-known method for partitioning n points that lie in the d-dimensional space into k clusters. Its main features are simplicity and speed in practice. Theoretically, however, the best known upper bound on its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-12-03 Andrea Vattani

We consider robust clustering problems in $\mathbb{R}^d$, specifically $k$-clustering problems (e.g., $k$-Median and $k$-Means with $m$ outliers, where the cost for a given center set $C \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ aggregates the distances from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Jianing Lou , Xuan Wu

We devise coresets for kernel $k$-Means with a general kernel, and use them to obtain new, more efficient, algorithms. Kernel $k$-Means has superior clustering capability compared to classical $k$-Means, particularly when clusters are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Jianing Lou , Yubo Zhang

The Euclidean $k$-center problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in computer science. Given a set $\mathcal{G}$ of $n$ points in Euclidean space, the problem is to determine a set $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ centers (not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Irina Kostitsyna , Maarten Löffler , Martijn Struijs

In a recent work, [19] studied the following "fair" variants of classical clustering problems such as $k$-means and $k$-median: given a set of $n$ data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and a binary type associated to each data point, the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We study Ward's method for the hierarchical $k$-means problem. This popular greedy heuristic is based on the \emph{complete linkage} paradigm: Starting with all data points as singleton clusters, it successively merges two clusters to form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Anna Großwendt , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt

The $(k, z)$-Clustering problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ has been extensively studied. Given the scale of data involved, compression methods for the Euclidean $(k, z)$-Clustering problem, such as data compression and dimension…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xiaoyi Zhu , Yuxiang Tian , Lingxiao Huang , Zengfeng Huang

Coresets for $k$-means and $k$-median problems yield a small summary of the data, which preserve the clustering cost with respect to any set of $k$ centers. Recently coresets have also been constructed for constrained $k$-means and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

The $k$-center problem is a fundamental optimization problem with numerous applications in machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and communication networks. The $k$-center problem has been extensively studied in the classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Artur Czumaj , Guichen Gao , Mohsen Ghaffari , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

We design coresets for Ordered k-Median, a generalization of classical clustering problems such as k-Median and k-Center, that offers a more flexible data analysis, like easily combining multiple objectives (e.g., to increase fairness or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Vladimir Braverman , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

We consider a generalization of $k$-median and $k$-center, called the {\em ordered $k$-median} problem. In this problem, we are given a metric space $(\mathcal{D},\{c_{ij}\})$ with $n=|\mathcal{D}|$ points, and a non-increasing weight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chaitanya Swamy

The problem of constrained clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study the balanced $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means clustering problems where the size of each cluster is constrained by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hu Ding

We develop and analyze a method to reduce the size of a very large set of data points in a high dimensional Euclidean space R d to a small set of weighted points such that the result of a predetermined data analysis task on the reduced set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Dan Feldman , Melanie Schmidt , Christian Sohler

Designing coresets--small-space sketches of the data preserving cost of the solutions within $(1\pm \epsilon)$-approximate factor--is an important research direction in the study of center-based $k$-clustering problems, such as $k$-means or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar

We provide the first coreset for clustering points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that have multiple missing values (coordinates). Previous coreset constructions only allow one missing coordinate. The challenge in this setting is that objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Vladimir Braverman , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

We consider the problem of estimating the Attention mechanism in small space, and prove the existence of coresets for it of nearly optimal size. Specifically, we show that for any set of unit-norm keys and values $(K,V)$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Edo Liberty , Alexandr Andoni , Eldar Kleiner

We give a new construction for a small space summary satisfying the coreset guarantee of a data set with respect to the $k$-means objective function. The number of points required in an offline construction is in $\tilde{O}(k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We present data streaming algorithms for the $k$-median problem in high-dimensional dynamic geometric data streams, i.e. streams allowing both insertions and deletions of points from a discrete Euclidean space $\{1, 2, \ldots \Delta\}^d$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Vladimir Braverman , Gereon Frahling , Harry Lang , Christian Sohler , Lin F. Yang