English
Related papers

Related papers: LocalKMeans: Convergence of Lloyd's Algorithm with…

200 papers

Locally-biased graph algorithms are algorithms that attempt to find local or small-scale structure in a large data graph. In some cases, this can be accomplished by adding some sort of locality constraint and calling a traditional graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Kimon Fountoulakis , David Gleich , Michael Mahoney

Clustering analysis has received considerable attention in spatial data mining for several years. With the rapid development of the geospatial information technologies, the size of spatial information data is growing exponentially which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Xia Yue , Wang Man , Jun Yue , Guangcao Liu

We present a unified framework for the construction of localized exponential integrators that bypasses the traditional trade-off between the accuracy of global spectral methods and the efficiency of sparse finite differences. By evaluating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Víctor Bayona

One of the cornerstones of the distributed complexity theory is the derandomization result by Chang, Kopelowitz, and Pettie [FOCS 2016]: any randomized LOCAL algorithm that solves a locally checkable labeling problem (LCL) can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sameep Dahal , Francesco d'Amore , Henrik Lievonen , Timothé Picavet , Jukka Suomela

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

The k-means method is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms, drawing its popularity from its speed in practice. Recently, however, it was shown to have exponential worst-case running time. In order to close the gap between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-07 David Arthur , Bodo Manthey , Heiko Röglin

We provide an approximation algorithm for k-means clustering in the one-round (aka non-interactive) local model of differential privacy (DP). This algorithm achieves an approximation ratio arbitrarily close to the best non private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Alisa Chang , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

We study sampling from posterior distributions in Bayesian linear inverse problems where $A$, the parameters to observables operator, is computationally expensive. In many applications, $A$ can be factored in a manner that facilitates the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Youguang Chen , George Biros

The distributed optimization problem has become increasingly relevant recently. It has a lot of advantages such as processing a large amount of data in less time compared to non-distributed methods. However, most distributed approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Daniil Medyakov , Gleb Molodtsov , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, a distributed stochastic approximation algorithm is studied. Applications of such algorithms include decentralized estimation, optimization, control or computing. The algorithm consists in two steps: a local step, where each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Pascal Bianchi , Gersende Fort , Walid Hachem

We study the Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) algorithm for non-convex optimization. The algorithm performs stochastic gradient descent, where in each step it injects appropriately scaled Gaussian noise to the update. We analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yuchen Zhang , Percy Liang , Moses Charikar

Decentralized optimization has emerged as a critical paradigm for distributed learning, enabling scalable training while preserving data privacy through peer-to-peer collaboration. However, existing methods often suffer from communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yijie Zhou , Shi Pu

Large-scale distributed optimization is of great importance in various applications. For data-parallel based distributed learning, the inter-node gradient communication often becomes the performance bottleneck. In this paper, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Jiaxiang Wu , Weidong Huang , Junzhou Huang , Tong Zhang

Inspired by the success of performing multiple local optimization steps between communication rounds in federated learning, incorporating such local updates into distributed optimization has recently attracted growing interest. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Zuang Wang , Yongqiang Wang

Recent progress in the development of quantum technologies has enabled the direct investigation of dynamics of increasingly complex quantum many-body systems. This motivates the study of the complexity of classical algorithms for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Dominik S. Wild , Álvaro M. Alhambra

This thesis aims to invent new approaches for making inferences with the k-means algorithm. k-means is an iterative clustering algorithm that randomly assigns k centroids, then assigns data points to the nearest centroid, and updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alfred K. Adzika , Prudence Djagba

We present methods to compute least fixed points of multiple monotone inflationary functions in parallel and distributed settings. While the classic Knaster-Tarski theorem addresses a single function with sequential iteration, modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vijay K. Garg , Rohan Garg

We consider the popular $k$-means problem in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Recently Friggstad, Rezapour, Salavatipour [FOCS'16] and Cohen-Addad, Klein, Mathieu [FOCS'16] showed that the standard local search algorithm yields a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Vincent Cohen-Addad

Quantum low-density parity-check codes are a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computing with considerably reduced overhead compared to the surface code. However, the lack of a practical decoding algorithm remains a barrier to…

Recently, several claims have been made that certain fundamental problems of distributed computing, including Leader Election and Distributed Consensus, begin to admit feasible and efficient solutions when the model of distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 Cyril Gavoille , Adrian Kosowski , Marcin Markiewicz