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Given a sequence of adversarial point insertions and point deletions, is it possible to simultaneously optimize the approximation ratio, update time, and recourse for a $k$-clustering problem? If so, can this be achieved with worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mara Grilnberger , Antonis Skarlatos

The problem of constrained clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study the balanced $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means clustering problems where the size of each cluster is constrained by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hu Ding

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

We consider the $k$-means clustering problem in the dynamic streaming setting, where points from a discrete Euclidean space $\{1, 2, \ldots, \Delta\}^d$ can be dynamically inserted to or deleted from the dataset. For this problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Wei Hu , Zhao Song , Lin F. Yang , Peilin Zhong

In this paper we give the first efficient algorithms for the $k$-center problem on dynamic graphs undergoing edge updates. In this problem, the goal is to partition the input into $k$ sets by choosing $k$ centers such that the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Emilio Cruciani , Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yasamin Nazari , Antonis Skarlatos

In this paper we introduce and study the online consistent $k$-clustering with outliers problem, generalizing the non-outlier version of the problem studied in [Lattanzi-Vassilvitskii, ICML17]. We show that a simple local-search based…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Xiangyu Guo , Janardhan Kulkarni , Shi Li , Jiayi Xian

The diameter $k$-clustering problem is the problem of partitioning a finite subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$ subsets called clusters such that the maximum diameter of the clusters is minimized. One early clustering algorithm that computes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Marcel R. Ackermann , Johannes Blömer , Daniel Kuntze , Christian Sohler

$k$-Clustering in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (e.g., $k$-median and $k$-means) is a fundamental machine learning problem. While near-linear time approximation algorithms were known in the classical setting for a dataset with cardinality $n$, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yecheng Xue , Xiaoyu Chen , Tongyang Li , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

In the dynamic set cover (SC) problem, the input is a dynamic universe of at most $n$ elements and a fixed collection of $m$ sets, where each element belongs to at most $f$ sets and each set has cost in $[1/C, 1]$. The objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shay Solomon , Amitai Uzrad

$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Qifa Ke , Gang Zeng , Shipeng Li

Maximizing a monotone submodular function under cardinality constraint $k$ is a core problem in machine learning and database with many basic applications, including video and data summarization, recommendation systems, feature extraction,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

We study the classic problem of correlation clustering in dynamic node streams. In this setting, nodes are either added or randomly deleted over time, and each node pair is connected by a positive or negative edge. The objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Andreas Maggiori , Nikos Parotsidis

We present approximation algorithms for some variants of center-based clustering and related problems in the fully dynamic setting, where the pointset evolves through an arbitrary sequence of insertions and deletions. Specifically, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Paolo Pellizzoni , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

We propose a novel clustering model encompassing two well-known clustering models: k-center clustering and k-median clustering. In the Hybrid k-Clusetring problem, given a set P of points in R^d, an integer k, and a non-negative real r, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

The $k$-median and $k$-means clustering objectives are classic objectives for modeling clustering in a metric space. Given a set of points in a metric space, the goal of the $k$-median (resp. $k$-means) problem is to find $k$ representative…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Recently, due to an increasing interest for transparency in artificial intelligence, several methods of explainable machine learning have been developed with the simultaneous goal of accuracy and interpretability by humans. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan

Clustering is a fundamental tool for analyzing large data sets. A rich body of work has been devoted to designing data-stream algorithms for the relevant optimization problems such as $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kook Jin Ahn , Graham Cormode , Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

We study the classical metric $k$-median clustering problem over a set of input rankings (i.e., permutations), which has myriad applications, from social-choice theory to web search and databases. A folklore algorithm provides a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Robert Krauthgamer

Let $P$ be a set of points in some metric space. The approximate furthest neighbor problem is, given a second point set $C,$ to find a point $p \in P$ that is a $(1+\epsilon)$ approximate furthest neighbor from $C.$ The dynamic version is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jinxiang Gan , Mordecai Jay Golin

We study k-median clustering under the sequential no-substitution setting. In this setting, a data stream is sequentially observed, and some of the points are selected by the algorithm as cluster centers. However, a point can be selected as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tom Hess , Michal Moshkovitz , Sivan Sabato