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The clustering problem, in its many variants, has numerous applications in operations research and computer science (e.g., in applications in bioinformatics, image processing, social network analysis, etc.). As sizes of data sets have grown…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Tanmay Inamdar , Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

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

We present a scalable algorithm for the individually fair ($p$, $k$)-clustering problem introduced by Jung et al. and Mahabadi et al. Given $n$ points $P$ in a metric space, let $\delta(x)$ for $x\in P$ be the radius of the smallest ball…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 MohammadHossein Bateni , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alessandro Epasto , Silvio Lattanzi

Capacitated k-median is one of the few outstanding optimization problems for which the existence of a polynomial time constant factor approximation algorithm remains an open problem. In a series of recent papers algorithms producing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Marek Adamczyk , Jarosław Byrka , Jan Marcinkowski , Syed M. Meesum , Michał Włodarczyk

Clustering with outliers is one of the most fundamental problems in Computer Science. Given a set $X$ of $n$ points and two integers $k$ and $m$, the clustering with outliers aims to exclude $m$ points from $X$ and partition the remaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Akanksha Agrawal , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning with many applications in data analysis. Popular clustering algorithms such as Lloyd's algorithm and $k$-means++ can take $\Omega(ndk)$ time when clustering $n$ points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Lunjia Hu , Maxmilian Vötsch , Erik Waingarten

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

Center-based clustering is a pivotal primitive for unsupervised learning and data analysis. A popular variant is undoubtedly the k-means problem, which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric space and a parameter $k<|P|$, requires to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Enrico Dandolo , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

In this paper we consider a generalization of the classical k-center problem with capacities. Our goal is to select k centers in a graph, and assign each node to a nearby center, so that we respect the capacity constraints on centers. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Marek Cygan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Samir Khuller

In this paper, we consider the Minimum-Load $k$-Clustering/Facility Location (MLkC) problem where we are given a set $P$ of $n$ points in a metric space that we have to cluster and an integer $k$ that denotes the number of clusters.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Nidhi Purohit , Kirill Simonov

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 study the task of differentially private clustering. For several basic clustering problems, including Euclidean DensestBall, 1-Cluster, k-means, and k-median, we give efficient differentially private algorithms that achieve essentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, and has been studied widely both as a problem of learning mixture models and as an optimization problem. In this paper, we study clustering with respect the emph{k-median}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Ramgopal Mettu , Greg Plaxton

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 consider the classic $k$-center problem {in the constant dimensional Euclidean space} under a parallel setting, on the low-local-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, with local space per machine of ${O}(n^{\delta})$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra

We revisit the $(f,g)$-clustering problem that we introduced in a recent work [SODA'25], and which subsumes fundamental clustering problems such as $k$-Center, $k$-Median, Min-Sum of Radii, and Min-Load $k$-Clustering. This problem assigns…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Martin G. Herold , Evangelos Kipouridis , Joachim Spoerhase

This paper presents universal algorithms for clustering problems, including the widely studied $k$-median, $k$-means, and $k$-center objectives. The input is a metric space containing all potential client locations. The algorithm must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Arun Ganesh , Bruce M. Maggs , Debmalya Panigrahi

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

We present a unified framework that yields EPASes for constrained $(k,z)$-clustering in metric spaces of bounded (algorithmic) scatter dimension, a notion introduced by Abbasi et al. (FOCS 2023). They showed that several well known metric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sujoy Bhore , Ameet Gadekar , Tanmay Inamdar

In the Priority $k$-Center problem, the input consists of a metric space $(X,d)$, an integer $k$, and for each point $v \in X$ a priority radius $r(v)$. The goal is to choose $k$-centers $S \subseteq X$ to minimize $\max_{v \in X}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tanvi Bajpai , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chandra Chekuri , Maryam Negahbani