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We study the computational problem of computing a fair means clustering of discrete vectors, which admits an equivalent formulation as editing a colored matrix into one with few distinct color-balanced rows by changing at most $k$ values.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Robert Ganian , Hung P. Hoang , Simon Wietheger

Due to the growing concern about unsavory behaviors of machine learning models toward certain demographic groups, the notion of 'fairness' has recently drawn much attention from the community, thereby motivating the study of fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Minh Phu Vuong , Young-Ju Lee , Iván Ojeda-Ruiz , Chul-Ho Lee

A clustering may be considered as fair on pre-specified sensitive attributes if the proportions of sensitive attribute groups in each cluster reflect that in the dataset. In this paper, we consider the task of fair clustering for scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Savitha Sam Abraham , Deepak P , Sowmya S Sundaram

Duplicate detection is the problem of identifying whether a given item has previously appeared in a (possibly infinite) stream of data, when only a limited amount of memory is available. Unfortunately the infinite stream setting is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rémi Géraud-Stewart , Marius Lombard-Platet , David Naccache

We introduce a novel algorithm to perform graph clustering in the edge streaming setting. In this model, the graph is presented as a sequence of edges that can be processed strictly once. Our streaming algorithm has an extremely low memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Fair clustering has gained increasing attention in recent years, especially in applications involving socially sensitive attributes. However, existing fair clustering methods often lack interpretability, limiting their applicability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mudi Jiang , Jiahui Zhou , Xinying Liu , Zengyou He , Zhikui Chen

The Hierarchical Clustering (HC) problem consists of building a hierarchy of clusters to represent a given dataset. Motivated by the modern large-scale applications, we study the problem in the \streaming model, in which the memory is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Sepehr Assadi , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Chen Wang

Fair clustering under the disparate impact doctrine requires that population of each protected group should be approximately equal in every cluster. Previous work investigated a difficult-to-scale pre-processing step for $k$-center and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Bokun Wang , Ian Davidson

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning, and fair variants of it have recently received significant attention due to its societal implications. In this work we introduce a novel definition of individual fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Darshan Chakrabarti , John P. Dickerson , Seyed A. Esmaeili , Aravind Srinivasan , Leonidas Tsepenekas

Individual fairness guarantees are often desirable properties to have, but they become hard to formalize when the dataset contains outliers. Here, we investigate the problem of developing an individually fair $k$-means clustering algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Binita Maity , Shrutimoy Das , Anirban Dasgupta

Clustering problems are fundamental to unsupervised learning. There is an increased emphasis on fairness in machine learning and AI; one representative notion of fairness is that no single demographic group should be over-represented among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 David G. Harris , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

Submodular maximization subject to matroid constraints is a central problem with many applications in machine learning. As algorithms are increasingly used in decision-making over datapoints with sensitive attributes such as gender or race,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sepideh Mahabadi , Sherry Sarkar , Jakub Tarnawski

Data summarization tasks are often modeled as $k$-clustering problems, where the goal is to choose $k$ data points, called cluster centers, that best represent the dataset by minimizing a clustering objective. A popular objective is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ameet Gadekar , Aristides Gionis , Suhas Thejaswi

Many clustering problems in computer vision and other contexts are also classification problems, where each cluster shares a meaningful label. Subspace clustering algorithms in particular are often applied to problems that fit this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 John Lipor , Laura Balzano

Clustered cell-free networking has emerged as a promising architecture to balance the high performance of cell-free massive MIMO and the scalability of traditional cellular systems. However, achieving fairness across subnetworks remains a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaowen Deng , Jie Fan , Boxiang Ren , Ziyuan Lyu , Jingchen Peng , Hao Wu , Junyuan Wang

The fairness of clustering algorithms has gained widespread attention across various areas, including machine learning, In this paper, we study fair $k$-means clustering in Euclidean space. Given a dataset comprising several groups, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Qingyuan Yang , Hu Ding

The study of fair algorithms has become mainstream in machine learning and artificial intelligence due to its increasing demand in dealing with biases and discrimination. Along this line, researchers have considered fair versions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Kirill Simonov

Capacitated fair-range $k$-clustering generalizes classical $k$-clustering by incorporating both capacity constraints and demographic fairness. In this setting, each facility has a capacity limit and may belong to one or more demographic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Ameet Gadekar , Suhas Thejaswi

Clustering algorithms are widely utilized for many modern data science applications. This motivates the need to make outputs of clustering algorithms fair. Traditionally, new fair algorithmic variants to clustering algorithms are developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anshuman Chhabra , Adish Singla , Prasant Mohapatra

In this paper we study the extraction of representative elements in the data stream model in the form of submodular maximization. Different from the previous work on streaming submodular maximization, we are interested only in the recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Jiecao Chen , Huy L. Nguyen , Qin Zhang
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