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Convex clustering is a well-regarded clustering method, resembling the similar centroid-based approach of Lloyd's $k$-means, without requiring a predefined cluster count. It starts with each data point as its centroid and iteratively merges…

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Coresets have emerged as a powerful tool to summarize data by selecting a small subset of the original observations while retaining most of its information. This approach has led to significant computational speedups but the performance of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Paxton Turner , Jingbo Liu , Philippe Rigollet

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform is a fundamental method for dimension reduction in Euclidean spaces, that can map any dataset of $n$ points into dimension $O(\log n)$ with low distortion of their distances. This dimension bound is tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Shay Sapir , Sandeep Silwal , Di Yue

Coreset selection targets the challenge of finding a small, representative subset of a large dataset that preserves essential patterns for effective machine learning. Although several surveys have examined data reduction strategies before,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Brian B. Moser , Arundhati S. Shanbhag , Stanislav Frolov , Federico Raue , Joachim Folz , Andreas Dengel

We introduce a novel problem for diversity-aware clustering. We assume that the potential cluster centers belong to a set of groups defined by protected attributes, such as ethnicity, gender, etc. We then ask to find a minimum-cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Suhas Thejaswi , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Aristides Gionis

Performance of clustering algorithms is evaluated with the help of accuracy metrics. There is a great diversity of clustering algorithms, which are key components of many data analysis and exploration systems. However, there exist only few…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Artem Lutov , Mourad Khayati , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

Over the last few years Explainable Clustering has gathered a lot of attention. Dasgupta et al. [ICML'20] initiated the study of explainable $k$-means and $k$-median clustering problems where the explanation is captured by a threshold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengyuan Deng , Surya Teja Gavva , Karthik C. S. , Parth Patel , Adarsh Srinivasan

Coreset is usually a small weighted subset of $n$ input points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, that provably approximates their loss function for a given set of queries (models, classifiers, etc.). Coresets become increasingly common in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Dan Feldman

Coreset (or core-set) is a small weighted \emph{subset} $Q$ of an input set $P$ with respect to a given \emph{monotonic} function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ that \emph{provably} approximates its fitting loss $\sum_{p\in P}f(p\cdot x)$ to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Elad Tolochinsky , Ibrahim Jubran , Dan Feldman

Recent work on deep clustering has found new promising methods also for constrained clustering problems. Their typically pairwise constraints often can be used to guide the partitioning of the data. Many problems however, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

In fully-dynamic consistent clustering, we are given a finite metric space $(M,d)$, and a set $F\subseteq M$ of possible locations for opening centers. Data points arrive and depart, and the goal is to maintain an approximately optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Niv Buchbinder , Roie Levin , Yue Yang

Many geometric optimization problems can be reduced to finding points in space (centers) minimizing an objective function which continuously depends on the distances from the centers to given input points. Examples are $k$-Means, Geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Vladimir Shenmaier

In this paper, we study correlation clustering under fairness constraints. Fair variants of $k$-median and $k$-center clustering have been studied recently, and approximation algorithms using a notion called fairlet decomposition have been…

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With the dramatic growth in the number of application domains that generate probabilistic, noisy and uncertain data, there has been an increasing interest in designing algorithms for geometric or combinatorial optimization problems over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Jeff M. Phillips , Haitao Wang

We study the problem of constructing $(1+\varepsilon)$-coresets for Euclidean $(k,z)$-clustering in the distributed setting, where $n$ data points are partitioned across $s$ sites. We focus on two prominent communication models: the…

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Many quantum algorithms for machine learning require access to classical data in superposition. However, for many natural data sets and algorithms, the overhead required to load the data set in superposition can erase any potential quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-01 Teague Tomesh , Pranav Gokhale , Eric R. Anschuetz , Frederic T. Chong

A coreset is a small set that can approximately preserve the structure of the original input data set. Therefore we can run our algorithm on a coreset so as to reduce the total computational complexity. Conventional coreset techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiaxiang Chen , Qingyuan Yang , Ruomin Huang , Hu Ding

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

Clustering stands as one of the most prominent challenges in unsupervised machine learning. Among centroid-based methods, the classic $k$-means algorithm, based on Lloyd's heuristic, is widely used. Nonetheless, it is a well-known fact that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-30 Supratik Basu , Jyotishka Ray Choudhury , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das

We introduce and study the $k$-center clustering problem with set outliers, a natural and practical generalization of the classical $k$-center clustering with outliers. Instead of removing individual data points, our model allows discarding…

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