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In projective clustering we are given a set of n points in $R^d$ and wish to cluster them to a set $S$ of $k$ linear subspaces in $R^d$ according to some given distance function. An $\eps$-coreset for this problem is a weighted (scaled)…

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Scanning devices often produce point clouds exhibiting highly uneven distributions of point samples across the surfaces being captured. Different point cloud subsampling techniques have been proposed to generate more evenly distributed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Marc Comino-Trinidad , Antonio Chica , Carlos andújar

We give a quantum approximation scheme (i.e., $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation for every $\varepsilon > 0$) for the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the QRAM model with a running time that has only polylogarithmic dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ragesh Jaiswal

Center-based clustering techniques are fundamental in some areas of machine learning such as data summarization. Generic $k$-center algorithms can produce biased cluster representatives so there has been a recent interest in fair $k$-center…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jinxiang Gan , Mordecai Golin , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for well-known clustering problems, namely $k$-Median and $k$-Means. In $k$-Median, the input consists of a set $X$ of $n$ points belonging to a metric space, and the task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Nidhi Purohit , Saket Saurabh

The $k$-center problem is to choose a subset of size $k$ from a set of $n$ points such that the maximum distance from each point to its nearest center is minimized. Let $Q=\{Q_1,\ldots,Q_n\}$ be a set of polygons or segments in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Vahideh Keikha , Sepideh Aghamolaei , Ali Mohades , Mohammad Ghodsi

We refine and generalize what is known about coresets for classification problems via the sensitivity sampling framework. Such coresets seek the smallest possible subsets of input data, so one can optimize a loss function on the coreset and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Meysam Alishahi , Jeff M. Phillips

In this paper, we first propose a new iterative algorithm, called the K-sets+ algorithm for clustering data points in a semi-metric space, where the distance measure does not necessarily satisfy the triangular inequality. We show that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Cheng-Shang Chang , Chia-Tai Chang , Duan-Shin Lee , Li-Heng Liou

We devise $\epsilon$-coresets for robust $(k,z)$-Clustering with $m$ outliers through black-box reductions to vanilla case. Given an $\epsilon$-coreset construction for vanilla clustering with size $N$, we construct coresets of size $N\cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Jianing Lou

Clustering is one of the most important unsupervised problems in machine learning and statistics. Among many existing algorithms, kernel k-means has drawn much research attention due to its ability to find non-linear cluster boundaries and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Bowei Yan , Purnamrita Sarkar

Coreset selection is powerful in reducing computational costs and accelerating data processing for deep learning algorithms. It strives to identify a small subset from large-scale data, so that training only on the subset practically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xiaobo Xia , Jiale Liu , Shaokun Zhang , Qingyun Wu , Hongxin Wei , Tongliang Liu

Scaling clustering algorithms to massive data sets is a challenging task. Recently, several successful approaches based on data summarization methods, such as coresets and sketches, were proposed. While these techniques provide provably…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Silvio Lattanzi

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

We consider a network of binary-valued sensors with a fusion center. The fusion center has to perform K-means clustering on the binary data transmitted by the sensors. In order to reduce the amount of data transmitted within the network,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Elsa Dupraz

Kernel means are frequently used to represent probability distributions in machine learning problems. In particular, the well known kernel density estimator and the kernel mean embedding both have the form of a kernel mean. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-03 E. Cruz Cortés , C. Scott

The classical $k$-means algorithm for partitioning $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$ clusters is one of the most popular and widely spread clustering methods. The need to respect prescribed lower bounds on the cluster sizes has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Steffen Borgwardt , Andreas Brieden , Peter Gritzmann

Clustering is a fundamental primitive in unsupervised learning. However, classical algorithms for $k$-clustering (such as $k$-median and $k$-means) assume access to exact pairwise distances -- an unrealistic requirement in many modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Rahul Raychaudhury , Aryan Esmailpour , Sainyam Galhotra , Stavros Sintos

k-means has recently been recognized as one of the best algorithms for clustering unsupervised data. Since k-means depends mainly on distance calculation between all data points and the centers, the time cost will be high when the size of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Raied Salman , Vojislav Kecman , Qi Li , Robert Strack , Erik Test

Fair clustering is a constrained variant of clustering where the goal is to partition a set of colored points, such that the fraction of points of any color in every cluster is more or less equal to the fraction of points of this color in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Kirill Simonov

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

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