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We consider the classic Euclidean $k$-median and $k$-means objective on data streams, where the goal is to provide a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation to the optimal $k$-median or $k$-means solution, while using as little memory as possible.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

We study streaming algorithms for Correlation Clustering. Given a graph as an arbitrary-order stream of edges, with each edge labeled as positive or negative, the goal is to partition the vertices into disjoint clusters, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinhao Dong , Shan Jiang , Shi Li , Pan Peng

We generalise the results of Bhattacharya et al. (Journal of Computing Systems, 62(1):93-115, 2018) for the list-$k$-means problem defined as -- for a (unknown) partition $X_1, ..., X_k$ of the dataset $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Dishant Goyal , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

We study a variant of classical clustering formulations in the context of algorithmic fairness, known as diversity-aware clustering. In this variant we are given a collection of facility subsets, and a solution must contain at least a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Suhas Thejaswi , Ameet Gadekar , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Michal Osadnik

We provide the first streaming algorithm for computing a provable approximation to the $k$-means of sparse Big data. Here, sparse Big Data is a set of $n$ vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where each vector has $O(1)$ non-zeroes entries, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Artem Barger , Dan Feldman

Clustering is a fundamental tool in data mining. It partitions points into groups (clusters) and may be used to make decisions for each point based on its group. However, this process may harm protected (minority) classes if the clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioana O. Bercea , Martin Groß , Samir Khuller , Aounon Kumar , Clemens Rösner , Daniel R. Schmidt , Melanie Schmidt

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

We study the classical metric $k$-median clustering problem over a set of input rankings (i.e., permutations), which has myriad applications, from social-choice theory to web search and databases. A folklore algorithm provides a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Robert Krauthgamer

We study k-median clustering under the sequential no-substitution setting. In this setting, a data stream is sequentially observed, and some of the points are selected by the algorithm as cluster centers. However, a point can be selected as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tom Hess , Michal Moshkovitz , Sivan Sabato

In a recent work, [19] studied the following "fair" variants of classical clustering problems such as $k$-means and $k$-median: given a set of $n$ data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and a binary type associated to each data point, the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

In recent years, the problem of computing the frequencies of the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs of a graph, or \emph{$k$-graphlets}, has become central. One approach for this problem is to sample $k$-graphlets randomly. Classic algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Marco Bressan , T-H. Hubert Chan , Qipeng Kuang , Mauro Sozio

We present data streaming algorithms for the $k$-median problem in high-dimensional dynamic geometric data streams, i.e. streams allowing both insertions and deletions of points from a discrete Euclidean space $\{1, 2, \ldots \Delta\}^d$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Vladimir Braverman , Gereon Frahling , Harry Lang , Christian Sohler , Lin F. Yang

We consider the $k$-means clustering problem in the dynamic streaming setting, where points from a discrete Euclidean space $\{1, 2, \ldots, \Delta\}^d$ can be dynamically inserted to or deleted from the dataset. For this problem, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Wei Hu , Zhao Song , Lin F. Yang , Peilin Zhong

Given a point set $P \subseteq X$ of size $n$ in a metric space $(X,dist)$ of doubling dimension $d$ and two parameters $k \in N$ and $z \in N$, the $k$-center problem with $z$ outliers asks to return a set $C^\ast \subseteq X$ of $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Mark de Berg , Leyla Biabani , Morteza Monemizadeh

Grouping together similar elements in datasets is a common task in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we study streaming algorithms for correlation clustering, where each pair of elements is labeled either similar or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mélanie Cambus , Fabian Kuhn , Etna Lindy , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

In this work, we study diversity-aware clustering problems where the data points are associated with multiple attributes resulting in intersecting groups. A clustering solution needs to ensure that the number of chosen cluster centers from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Suhas Thejaswi , Ameet Gadekar , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Aristides Gionis

The clustering problem, in its many variants, has numerous applications in operations research and computer science (e.g., in applications in bioinformatics, image processing, social network analysis, etc.). As sizes of data sets have grown…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Tanmay Inamdar , Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

The problem of constrained clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study the balanced $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means clustering problems where the size of each cluster is constrained by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hu Ding

Clustering is a well-studied unsupervised learning task that aims to partition data points into a number of clusters. In many applications, these clusters correspond to real-world constructs (e.g., electoral districts, playlists, TV…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

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