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We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Hoai-An Nguyen , Chen Wang , Yubo Zhang , Samson Zhou

In the past few years powerful generalizations to the Euclidean k-means problem have been made, such as Bregman clustering [7], co-clustering (i.e., simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of an input matrix) [9,18], and tensor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-09 Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra , Arindam Banerjee

The Euclidean $k$-center problem is a classical problem that has been extensively studied in computer science. Given a set $\mathcal{G}$ of $n$ points in Euclidean space, the problem is to determine a set $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ centers (not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Irina Kostitsyna , Maarten Löffler , Martijn Struijs

The $(k, z)$-Clustering problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ has been extensively studied. Given the scale of data involved, compression methods for the Euclidean $(k, z)$-Clustering problem, such as data compression and dimension…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xiaoyi Zhu , Yuxiang Tian , Lingxiao Huang , Zengfeng Huang

The k-means objective is arguably the most widely-used cost function for modeling clustering tasks in a metric space. In practice and historically, k-means is thought of in a continuous setting, namely where the centers can be located…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , Euiwoong Lee

We introduce and study the $k$-center clustering problem with set outliers, a natural and practical generalization of the classical $k$-center clustering with outliers. Instead of removing individual data points, our model allows discarding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Vaishali Surianarayanan , Neeraj Kumar , Stavros Sintos

We initiate the study of coresets for clustering in graph metrics, i.e., the shortest-path metric of edge-weighted graphs. Such clustering problems are essential to data analysis and used for example in road networks and data visualization.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Daniel Baker , Vladimir Braverman , Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

In optimization or machine learning problems we are given a set of items, usually points in some metric space, and the goal is to minimize or maximize an objective function over some space of candidate solutions. For example, in clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Dan Feldman

The $k$-$\mathtt{means}$++ seeding algorithm (Arthur & Vassilvitskii, 2007) is widely used in practice for the $k$-means clustering problem where the goal is to cluster a dataset $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R} ^d$ into $k$ clusters. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Poojan Shah , Shashwat Agrawal , Ragesh Jaiswal

Algorithms often carry out equally many computations for "easy" and "hard" problem instances. In particular, algorithms for finding nearest neighbors typically have the same running time regardless of the particular problem instance. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk , Reinhard Heckel

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

We show how to approximate a data matrix $\mathbf{A}$ with a much smaller sketch $\mathbf{\tilde A}$ that can be used to solve a general class of constrained k-rank approximation problems to within $(1+\epsilon)$ error. Importantly, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Michael B. Cohen , Sam Elder , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Madalina Persu

In fully-dynamic consistent clustering, we are given a finite metric space $(M,d)$, and a set $F\subseteq M$ of possible locations for opening centers. Data points arrive and depart, and the goal is to maintain an approximately optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Niv Buchbinder , Roie Levin , Yue Yang

Motivated by practical generalizations of the classic $k$-median and $k$-means objectives, such as clustering with size constraints, fair clustering, and Wasserstein barycenter, we introduce a meta-theorem for designing coresets for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vladimir Braverman , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Mads Bech Toftrup , Xuan Wu

Spherical k-Means is frequently used to cluster document collections because it performs reasonably well in many settings and is computationally efficient. However, the time complexity increases linearly with the number of clusters k, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Johannes Knittel , Steffen Koch , Thomas Ertl

To study the question under which circumstances small solutions can be found faster than by exhaustive search (and by how much), we study the fine-grained complexity of Boolean constraint satisfaction with size constraint exactly $k$. More…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Marvin Künnemann , Dániel Marx

In this paper, we present a linear-time approximation scheme for $k$-means clustering of \emph{incomplete} data points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. An \emph{incomplete} data point with $\Delta>0$ unspecified entries is represented as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kyungjin Cho , Eunjin Oh

We study the problem of constructing coresets for clustering problems with time series data. This problem has gained importance across many fields including biology, medicine, and economics due to the proliferation of sensors facilitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Lingxiao Huang , K. Sudhir , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We design new parallel algorithms for clustering in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. These algorithms run in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, and are fully scalable, meaning that the local memory in each machine may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Artur Czumaj , Guichen Gao , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý

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