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In real-world application scenarios, the identification of groups poses a significant challenge due to possibly occurring outliers and existing noise variables. Therefore, there is a need for a clustering method which is capable of…

We present approximation algorithms for some variants of center-based clustering and related problems in the fully dynamic setting, where the pointset evolves through an arbitrary sequence of insertions and deletions. Specifically, we…

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From neuroscience and genomics to systems biology and ecology, researchers rely on clustering similarity data to uncover modular structure. Yet widely used clustering methods, such as hierarchical clustering, k-means, and WGCNA, lack…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Magnus Neuman , Jelena Smiljanić , Martin Rosvall

One of the most widely used techniques for data clustering is agglomerative clustering. Such algorithms have been long used across many different fields ranging from computational biology to social sciences to computer vision in part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Maria-Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang , Pramod Gupta

We present an efficient coresets-based neural network compression algorithm that sparsifies the parameters of a trained fully-connected neural network in a manner that provably approximates the network's output. Our approach is based on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

In this work, we study the $k$-median clustering problem with an additional equal-size constraint on the clusters, from the perspective of parameterized preprocessing. Our main result is the first lossy ($2$-approximate) polynomial kernel…

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Coreset selection targets the challenge of finding a small, representative subset of a large dataset that preserves essential patterns for effective machine learning. Although several surveys have examined data reduction strategies before,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Brian B. Moser , Arundhati S. Shanbhag , Stanislav Frolov , Federico Raue , Joachim Folz , Andreas Dengel

We study the problem of partitioning a set of $n$ objects in a metric space into $k$ clusters $V_1,\dots,V_k$. The quality of the clustering is measured by considering the vector of cluster costs and then minimizing some monotone symmetric…

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Clustering is one of the most fundamental problems in unsupervised learning with a large number of applications. However, classical clustering algorithms assume that the data is static, thus failing to capture many real-world applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Dariusz Leniowski , Christian Schulz , Alexander Svozil

Recent work has proposed solving the k-means clustering problem on quantum computers via the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and coreset techniques. Although the current method demonstrates the possibility of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Canaan Yung , Muhammad Usman

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

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Efficient and scalable non-parametric or semi-parametric regression analysis and density estimation are of crucial importance to the fields of statistics and machine learning. However, available methods are limited in their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zeyu Ding , Katja Ickstadt , Nadja Klein , Alexander Munteanu , Simon Omlor

We give relative error coresets for training linear classifiers with a broad class of loss functions, including the logistic loss and hinge loss. Our construction achieves $(1\pm \epsilon)$ relative error with $\tilde O(d \cdot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tung Mai , Anup B. Rao , Cameron Musco

Current hardware for quantum computing suffers from high levels of noise, and so to achieve practical fault-tolerant quantum computing will require powerful and efficient methods to correct for errors in quantum circuits. Here, we explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Aditya Jain , Pavithran Iyer , Stephen D. Bartlett , Joseph Emerson

Motivated by the fact that distances between data points in many real-world clustering instances are often based on heuristic measures, Bilu and Linial~\cite{BL} proposed analyzing objective based clustering problems under the assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Maria Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang

We give the motivation for scoring clustering algorithms and a metric $M : A \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ from the set of clustering algorithms to the natural numbers which we realize as \begin{equation} M(A) = \sum_i \alpha_i |f_i -…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Clark Alexander , Sofya Akhmametyeva

We present an efficient coreset construction algorithm for large-scale Support Vector Machine (SVM) training in Big Data and streaming applications. A coreset is a small, representative subset of the original data points such that a models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Murad Tukan , Cenk Baykal , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

Deep clustering is a deep neural network-based speech separation algorithm that first trains the mixed component of signals with high-dimensional embeddings, and then uses a clustering algorithm to separate each mixture of sources. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Soyeon Choe , Soo-Whan Chung , Youna Ji , Hong-Goo Kang