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We present the first algorithm for fully dynamic $k$-centers clustering in an arbitrary metric space that maintains an optimal $2+\epsilon$ approximation in $O(k \cdot \operatorname{polylog}(n,\Delta))$ amortized update time. Here, $n$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 MohammadHossein Bateni , Hossein Esfandiari , Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a fundamental unsupervised learning primitive whose strongest LP-based approximation guarantees require $\Theta(n^3)$ triangle inequality constraints and are prohibitive at scale. We initiate the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Clustering is an important task with applications in many fields of computer science. We study the fully dynamic setting in which we want to maintain good clusters efficiently when input points (from a metric space) can be inserted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Andreas Wiese

Clustering aims to group unlabelled samples based on their similarities. It has become a significant tool for the analysis of high-dimensional data. However, most of the clustering methods merely generate pseudo labels and thus are unable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tianyi Huang , Shenghui Cheng , Stan Z. Li , Zhengjun Zhang

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

In fully dynamic clustering problems, a clustering of a given data set in a metric space must be maintained while it is modified through insertions and deletions of individual points. In this paper, we resolve the complexity of fully…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-22 MohammadHossein Bateni , Hossein Esfandiari , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Andreas Wiese

We present new results for LambdaCC and MotifCC, two recently introduced variants of the well-studied correlation clustering problem. Both variants are motivated by applications to network analysis and community detection, and have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth

Identifying clusters of similar elements in a set is a common task in data analysis. With the immense growth of data and physical limitations on single processor speed, it is necessary to find efficient parallel algorithms for clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Mélanie Cambus , Davin Choo , Havu Miikonen , Jara Uitto

Crowdsourced, or human computation based clustering algorithms usually rely on relative distance comparisons, as these are easier to elicit from human workers than absolute distance information. A relative distance comparison is a statement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Antti Ukkonen

In the dynamic metric $k$-median problem, we wish to maintain a set of $k$ centers $S \subseteq V$ in an input metric space $(V, d)$ that gets updated via point insertions/deletions, so as to minimize the objective $\sum_{x \in V} \min_{y…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Naveen Garg , Silvio Lattanzi , Nikos Parotsidis

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a set of objects with pairwise similarity information. Our aim is to partition these objects into clusters that match this information as closely as possible. More specifically, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jafar Jafarov

We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by machine learning and data mining applications where the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nate Veldt

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a task in computer vision that aims to detect the position of various objects in videos and to associate them to a unique identity. We propose an approach based on Constraint Programming (CP) whose goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Rémi Nahon , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Gilles Pesant

Correlation clustering is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem arising in many contexts and applications that has been the subject of dozens of papers in the literature. In this problem we are given a general weighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Samir Khuller , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

We revisit the simultaneous approximation model for the correlation clustering problem introduced by Davies, Moseley, and Newman[DMN24]. The objective is to find a clustering that minimizes given norms of the disagreement vector over all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nairen Cao , Shi Li , Jia Ye

The interest in 3D dynamical tracking is growing in fields such as robotics, biology and fluid dynamics. Recently, a major source of progress in 3D tracking has been the study of collective behaviour in biological systems, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Andrea Cavagna , Chiara Creato , Lorenzo Del Castello , Stefania Melillo , Leonardo Parisi , Massimiliano Viale

We consider the problem of maintaining a hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) in the dynamic setting, when the input is subject to point insertions and deletions. We introduce DynHAC - the first dynamic HAC algorithm for the popular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shangdi Yu , Laxman Dhulipala , Jakub Łącki , Nikos Parotsidis

We develop data structures for dynamic closest pair problems with arbitrary distance functions, that do not necessarily come from any geometric structure on the objects. Based on a technique previously used by the author for Euclidean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-21 David Eppstein

The $k$-center problem is a fundamental clustering variant with applications in learning systems and data summarization. In several real-world scenarios, the dataset to be clustered is not static, but evolves over time, as new data points…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Simone Moretti , Paolo Pellizzoni , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

Clustering temporal and dynamically changing multivariate time series from real-world fields, called temporal clustering for short, has been a major challenge due to inherent complexities. Although several deep temporal clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhi Wang , Yanni Li , Pingping Zheng , Yiyuan Jiao