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We present an algorithm for computing $\epsilon$-coresets for $(k, \ell)$-median clustering of polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the Fr\'echet distance. This type of clustering is an adaption of Euclidean $k$-median clustering: we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Maike Buchin , Dennis Rohde

Recent work on deep clustering has found new promising methods also for constrained clustering problems. Their typically pairwise constraints often can be used to guide the partitioning of the data. Many problems however, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

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

In this paper we consider two metric covering/clustering problems - \textit{Minimum Cost Covering Problem} (MCC) and $k$-clustering. In the MCC problem, we are given two point sets $X$ (clients) and $Y$ (servers), and a metric on $X \cup…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Kasturi Varadarajan

This paper proposes a variant of the normalized cut algorithm for spectral clustering. Although the normalized cut algorithm applies the K-means algorithm to the eigenvectors of a normalized graph Laplacian for finding clusters, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Tomohiko Mizutani

We study the $k$-median with discounts problem, wherein we are given clients with non-negative discounts and seek to open at most $k$ facilities. The goal is to minimize the sum of distances from each client to its nearest open facility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Shichuan Deng

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

The $k$-center problem is a central optimization problem with numerous applications for machine learning, data mining, and communication networks. Despite extensive study in various scenarios, it surprisingly has not been thoroughly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Leyla Biabani , Ami Paz

This paper studies clustering of data sequences using the k-medoids algorithm. All the data sequences are assumed to be generated from \emph{unknown} continuous distributions, which form clusters with each cluster containing a composite set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Tiexing Wang , Qunwei Li , Donald J. Bucci , Yingbin Liang , Biao Chen , Pramod K. Varshney

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

With the aggressive scaling of VLSI technology, the explosion of layout patterns creates a critical bottleneck for DFM applications like OPC. Pattern clustering is essential to reduce data complexity, yet existing methods struggle with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuo Liu

Clustering non-Euclidean data is difficult, and one of the most used algorithms besides hierarchical clustering is the popular algorithm Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM), also simply referred to as k-medoids. In Euclidean geometry the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Erich Schubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

The input to the $k$-median for lines problem is a set $L$ of $n$ lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and the goal is to compute a set of $k$ centers (points) in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the sum of squared distances over every line in $L$ and its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yair Marom , Dan Feldman

Designing efficient, effective, and consistent metric clustering algorithms is a significant challenge attracting growing attention. Traditional approaches focus on the stability of cluster centers; unfortunately, this neglects the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diptarka Chakraborty , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Bernhard Haeupler , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson

k-medoids algorithm is a partitional, centroid-based clustering algorithm which uses pairwise distances of data points and tries to directly decompose the dataset with $n$ points into a set of $k$ disjoint clusters. However, k-medoids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Amin Aghaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

In a geometric $k$-clustering problem the goal is to partition a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$ subsets such that a certain cost function of the clustering is minimized. We present data structures for orthogonal range-clustering…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Mark de Berg , Kevin Buchin , Mehran Mehr , Ali D. Mehrabi

Spectral-based subspace clustering methods have proved successful in many challenging applications such as gene sequencing, image recognition, and motion segmentation. In this work, we first propose a novel spectral-based subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

Convex clustering is a well-regarded clustering method, resembling the similar centroid-based approach of Lloyd's $k$-means, without requiring a predefined cluster count. It starts with each data point as its centroid and iteratively merges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Shubhayan Pan , Kushal Bose , Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das

We develop constrained Bayesian estimation methods for small area problems: those requiring smoothness with respect to similarity across areas, such as geographic proximity or clustering by covariates; and benchmarking constraints,…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-28 Rebecca C. Steorts

Existing approaches remain largely constrained by traditional distance metrics, limiting their effectiveness in handling random data. In this work, we introduce the first k-means variant in the literature that operates within a…