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Given two sets $R$ and $B$ of $n$ points in the plane, we present efficient algorithms to find a two-line linear classifier that best separates the "red" points in $R$ from the "blue" points in $B$ and is robust to outliers. More precisely,…
Let $\mathcal P$ be a simple polygonal environment with $k$ vertices in the plane. Assume that a set $B$ of $b$ blue points and a set $R$ of $r$ red points are distributed in $\mathcal P$. We study the problem of computing triangles that…
Given a set R of n red points and a set B of m blue points, we study the problem of finding a rectangle that contains all the red points, the minimum number of blue points and has the largest area. We call such rectangle a maximum…
We consider a bichromatic two-center problem for pairs of points. Given a set $S$ of $n$ pairs of points in the plane, for every pair, we want to assign a red color to one point and a blue color to the other, in such a way that the value…
We consider the problem of computing the largest-area bichromatic separating box among a set of $n$ red points and a set of $m$ blue points in three dimensions. Currently, the best-known algorithm to solve this problem takes $O(m^2 (m +…
Given a set R of red points and a set B of blue points in the plane, the Red-Blue point separation problem asks if there are at most k lines that separate R from B, that is, each cell induced by the lines of the solution is either empty or…
Change point detection plays a fundamental role in many real-world applications, where the goal is to analyze and monitor the behaviour of a data stream. In this paper, we study change detection in binary streams. To this end, we use a…
Classical separability problem involving multi-color point sets is an important area of study in computational geometry. In this paper, we study different separability problems for bichromatic point set P=P_r\cup P_b on a plane, where $P_r$…
We study the following geometric separation problem: Given a set $R$ of red points and a set $B$ of blue points in the plane, find a minimum-size set of lines that separate $R$ from $B$. We show that, in its full generality, parameterized…
Given two point sets $R$ and $B$ in the plane, with cardinalities $m$ and $n$, respectively, and each set stored in a separate R-tree, we present an algorithm to decide whether $R$ and $B$ are linearly separable. Our algorithm exploits the…
In online classification, a learner is presented with a sequence of examples and aims to predict their labels in an online fashion so as to minimize the total number of mistakes. In the self-directed variant, the learner knows in advance…
We provide approximation algorithms for two problems, known as NECKLACE SPLITTING and $\epsilon$-CONSENSUS SPLITTING. In the problem $\epsilon$-CONSENSUS SPLITTING, there are $n$ non-atomic probability measures on the interval $[0, 1]$ and…
This paper presents a novel online learning method that aims at finding a separator hyperplane between data points labelled as either positive or negative. Since weights and biases of artificial neurons can directly be related to…
Binary segmentation is the classic greedy algorithm which recursively splits a sequential data set by optimizing some loss or likelihood function. Binary segmentation is widely used for changepoint detection in data sets measured over space…
Given a bichromatic point set $P=\textbf{R} \cup \textbf{B}$ of red and blue points, a separator is an object of a certain type that separates $\textbf{R}$ and $\textbf{B}$. We study the geometric separability problem when the separator is…
Finding an exact maximum distance of two points in the given set is a fundamental computational problem which is solved in many applications. This paper presents a fast, simple to implement and robust algorithm for finding this maximum…
In this work, we present data stream algorithms to compute optimal splits for decision tree learning. In particular, given a data stream of observations \(x_i\) and their corresponding labels \(y_i\), without the i.i.d. assumption, the…
We obtain better algorithms for computing more balanced orientations and degree splits in LOCAL. Important to our result is a connection to the hypergraph sinkless orientation problem [BMNSU, SODA'25] We design an algorithm of complexity…
We study nonlinear regression of real valued data in an individual sequence manner, where we provide results that are guaranteed to hold without any statistical assumptions. We address the convergence and undertraining issues of…
We address the problem of computing the minimum number of triangles to separate a set of blue points from a set of red points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. A set of triangles is a \emph{separator} of one color from the other if every point of that…