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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

Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis, with the $k$-means being one of the widely studied objectives due to its simplicity and broad applicability. In many practical scenarios, data points come with associated weights that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Akash Pareek , Supratim Shit

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

Uniform sampling is a highly efficient method for data summarization. However, its effectiveness in producing coresets for clustering problems is not yet well understood, primarily because it generally does not yield a strong coreset, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Amir Carmel , Robert Krauthgamer

Designing small-sized \emph{coresets}, which approximately preserve the costs of the solutions for large datasets, has been an important research direction for the past decade. We consider coreset construction for a variety of general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li , Pinyan Lu , Xuan Wu

Coresets are modern data-reduction tools that are widely used in data analysis to improve efficiency in terms of running time, space and communication complexity. Our main result is a fast algorithm to construct a small coreset for k-Median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Vladimir Braverman , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

An $\varepsilon$-coreset for Least-Mean-Squares (LMS) of a matrix $A\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n\times d}$ is a small weighted subset of its rows that approximates the sum of squared distances from its rows to every affine $k$-dimensional subspace of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Alaa Maalouf , Adiel Statman , Dan Feldman

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

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

$k$-means clustering is NP-hard in the worst case but previous work has shown efficient algorithms assuming the optimal $k$-means clusters are \emph{stable} under additive or multiplicative perturbation of data. This has two caveats. First,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis , Apoorv Vikram Singh

We study coresets for clustering with capacity and fairness constraints. Our main result is a near-linear time algorithm to construct $\tilde{O}(k^2\varepsilon^{-2z-2})$-sized $\varepsilon$-coresets for capacitated $(k,z)$-clustering which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Lingxiao Huang , Pinyan Lu , Xuan Wu

We study the data selection problem, whose aim is to select a small representative subset of data that can be used to efficiently train a machine learning model. We present a new data selection approach based on $k$-means clustering and…

In real world, our datasets often contain outliers. Moreover, the outliers can seriously affect the final machine learning result. Most existing algorithms for handling outliers take high time complexities (e.g. quadratic or cubic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hu Ding , Zixiu Wang

The classical center based clustering problems such as $k$-means/median/center assume that the optimal clusters satisfy the locality property that the points in the same cluster are close to each other. A number of clustering problems arise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

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

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

We study the power of uniform sampling for $k$-Median in various metric spaces. We relate the query complexity for approximating $k$-Median, to a key parameter of the dataset, called the balancedness $\beta \in (0, 1]$ (with $1$ being…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Jianing Lou

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

Centroid based clustering methods such as k-means, k-medoids and k-centers are heavily applied as a go-to tool in exploratory data analysis. In many cases, those methods are used to obtain representative centroids of the data manifold for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Randall Balestriero , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Richard Baraniuk