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In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

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We study the problem of clustering ranking vectors, where each vector represents preferences as an ordered list of distinct integers. Specifically, we focus on the k-centroids ranking vectors clustering problem (KRC), which aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ali Fattahi , Ali Eshragh , Babak Aslani , Meysam Rabiee

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in the artificial intelligence area, particularly in the pattern recognition and learning theory. In this paper, we propose a simple, but novel approach for variance-based k-clustering tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yicheng Xu , Vincent Chau , Chenchen Wu , Yong Zhang , Vassilis Zissimopoulos , Yifei Zou

Clustering algorithms are iterative and have complex data access patterns that result in many small random memory accesses. The performance of parallel implementations suffer from synchronous barriers for each iteration and skewed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Disa Mhembere , Da Zheng , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Randal Burns

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

The $k$-Means clustering problem on $n$ points is NP-Hard for any dimension $d\ge 2$, however, for the 1D case there exists exact polynomial time algorithms. Previous literature reported an $O(kn^2)$ time dynamic programming algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen , Alexander Mathiasen , Jesper Sindahl Nielsen , Stefan Schneider , Mingzhou Song

The diameter $k$-clustering problem is the problem of partitioning a finite subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $k$ subsets called clusters such that the maximum diameter of the clusters is minimized. One early clustering algorithm that computes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Marcel R. Ackermann , Johannes Blömer , Daniel Kuntze , Christian Sohler

Clustering algorithms are used in a large number of applications and play an important role in modern machine learning-- yet, adversarial attacks on clustering algorithms seem to be broadly overlooked unlike supervised learning. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Anshuman Chhabra , Abhishek Roy , Prasant Mohapatra

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

To leverage data and computation capabilities of mobile devices, machine learning algorithms are deployed at the network edge for training artificial intelligence (AI) models, resulting in the new paradigm of edge learning. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Dingzhu Wen , Mehdi Bennis , Kaibin Huang

We consider the problem of center-based clustering in low-dimensional Euclidean spaces under the perturbation stability assumption. An instance is $\alpha$-stable if the underlying optimal clustering continues to remain optimal even when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Hsien-Chih Chang , Kamesh Munagala , Erin Taylor , Emo Welzl

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Unsupervised clustering algorithm can effectively reduce the dimension of high-dimensional unlabeled data, thus reducing the time and space complexity of data processing. However, the traditional clustering algorithm needs to set the upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Zecang Gu , Xiaoqi Sun , Yuan Sun , Fuquan Zhang

In correlation clustering, we are given $n$ objects together with a binary similarity score between each pair of them. The goal is to partition the objects into clusters so to minimise the disagreements with the scores. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Marco Bressan , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Andrea Paudice , Fabio Vitale

$k$-means clustering is a well-studied problem due to its wide applicability. Unfortunately, there exist strong theoretical limits on the performance of any algorithm for the $k$-means problem on worst-case inputs. To overcome this barrier,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jon C. Ergun , Zhili Feng , Sandeep Silwal , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms is a challenging and essential task. We consider the problem of clustering a set of points while satisfying fairness constraints. While there have been several attempts to capture group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Debajyoti Kar , Mert Kosan , Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Palash Dey , Swagato Sanyal

Time series clustering is the act of grouping time series data without recourse to a label. Algorithms that cluster time series can be classified into two groups: those that employ a time series specific distance measure; and those that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Chris Holder , Matthew Middlehurst , Anthony Bagnall

Existing clustering methods are based on a single granularity of information, such as the distance and density of each data. This most fine-grained based approach is usually inefficient and susceptible to noise. Inspired by adaptive process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Shuyin Xia , Jiang Xie , Guoyin Wang

Given a set of data, biclustering aims at finding simultaneous partitions in biclusters of its samples and of the features which are used for representing the samples. Consistent biclusterings allow to obtain correct classifications of the…

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