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The $k$-center problem is a classical clustering problem in which one is asked to find a partitioning of a point set $P$ into $k$ clusters such that the maximum radius of any cluster is minimized. It is well-studied. But what if we add up…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lukas Drexler , Annika Hennes , Abhiruk Lahiri , Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

We study the fair variant of the classic $k$-median problem introduced by Chierichetti et al. [2017]. In the standard $k$-median problem, given an input pointset $P$, the goal is to find $k$ centers $C$ and assign each input point to one of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk , Krzysztof Onak , Baruch Schieber , Ali Vakilian , Tal Wagner

We consider the $k$-min-sum-radii ($k$-MSR) clustering problem with fairness constraints. The $k$-min-sum-radii problem is a mixture of the classical $k$-center and $k$-median problems. We are given a set of points $P$ in a metric space and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lena Carta , Lukas Drexler , Annika Hennes , Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

In this work, we study pairwise fair clustering with $\ell \ge 2$ groups, where for every cluster $C$ and every group $i \in [\ell]$, the number of points in $C$ from group $i$ must be at most $t$ times the number of points in $C$ from any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Eden Chlamtáč , Zachary Friggstad , Mahya Jamshidian , Yury Makarychev , Ali Vakilian

Many approximation algorithms and heuristic algorithms to find a fair clustering have emerged. In this paper we define a new and natural variant of fair clustering problem and design a polynomial time algorithm to compute an optimal fair…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ayano Moritaka , Shin-ichi Nakano , Kento Tanaka , Noriaki Yoshida

We study the colorful sum of radii problem, where the input is a point set $P$ partitioned into classes $P_1, P_2, \dots, P_\omega$, along with per-class outlier bounds $m_1, m_2, \dots, m_\omega$, summing to $m$. The goal is to select a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shuilian Liu , Gregory Gutin , Yicheng Xu , Yong Zhang

Fair clustering is a constrained variant of clustering where the goal is to partition a set of colored points, such that the fraction of points of any color in every cluster is more or less equal to the fraction of points of this color in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Kirill Simonov

The sum of radii problem is a classical clustering problem in which, given a set $X$ of points and an integer $k$, the goal is to place $k$ balls that cover $X$ while minimizing the sum of their radii. Recent work has focused on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ameet Gadekar

Given a set of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane, the $k$-MinSumRadius problem asks to cover this point set using $k$ disks with the objective of minimizing the sum of the radii of the disks. After a long line of research on related…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sarita de Berg , Lucas Meijer , André Nusser , Leonidas Theocharous

We consider the capacitated clustering problem in general metric spaces where the goal is to identify $k$ clusters and minimize the sum of the radii of the clusters (we call this the Capacitated-$k$-sumRadii problem). We are interested in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar , Jatin Yadav

The sum of radii problem ($k$-MSR) asks, given a metric space on $n$ points, to place $k$ balls covering all points so as to minimize the sum of their radii. Despite extensive study from the perspectives of approximation and parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ameet Gadekar

We present a scalable algorithm for the individually fair ($p$, $k$)-clustering problem introduced by Jung et al. and Mahabadi et al. Given $n$ points $P$ in a metric space, let $\delta(x)$ for $x\in P$ be the radius of the smallest ball…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 MohammadHossein Bateni , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alessandro Epasto , Silvio Lattanzi

We study approximation algorithms for the socially fair $(\ell_p, k)$-clustering problem with $m$ groups, whose special cases include the socially fair $k$-median ($p=1$) and socially fair $k$-means ($p=2$) problems. We present (1) a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Mohit Singh , Santosh S. Vempala

Clustering with capacity constraints is a fundamental problem that attracted significant attention throughout the years. In this paper, we give the first FPT constant-factor approximation algorithm for the problem of clustering points in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , William Lochet , Saket Saurabh

In the standard planar $k$-center clustering problem, one is given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, and the goal is to select $k$ center points, so as to minimize the maximum distance over points in $P$ to their nearest center. Here we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Hongyao Huang , Georgiy Klimenko , Benjamin Raichel

In the Non-Uniform $k$-Center problem, a generalization of the famous $k$-center clustering problem, we want to cover the given set of points in a metric space by finding a placement of balls with specified radii. In $t$-NU$k$C Problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Tanmay Inamdar , Kasturi Varadarajan

A fair clustering instance is given a data set $A$ in which every point is assigned some color. Colors correspond to various protected attributes such as sex, ethnicity, or age. A fair clustering is an instance where membership of points in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Matteo Böhm , Adriano Fazzone , Stefano Leonardi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We study the problem of fair $k$-median where each cluster is required to have a fair representation of individuals from different groups. In the fair representation $k$-median problem, we are given a set of points $X$ in a metric space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Zhen Dai , Yury Makarychev , Ali Vakilian

We study the $k$-center problem in the context of individual fairness. Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in a metric space and $r_x$ be the distance between $x \in P$ and its $\lceil n/k \rceil$-th nearest neighbor. The problem asks to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Matthijs Ebbens , Nicole Funk , Jan Höckendorff , Christian Sohler , Vera Weil

In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for well-known clustering problems, namely $k$-Median and $k$-Means. In $k$-Median, the input consists of a set $X$ of $n$ points belonging to a metric space, and the task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Nidhi Purohit , Saket Saurabh
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