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For an integer $k\geq 1$, the objective of \textsc{$k$-Geodesic Center} is to find a set $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ isometric paths such that the maximum distance between any vertex $v$ and $\mathcal{C}$ is minimised. Introduced by Gromov,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Yann Vaxès

In the $k$-cut problem, we are given an edge-weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and have to remove a set of edges with minimum total weight so that $G$ has at least $k$ connected components. The current best algorithms are an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

The $k$-center problem is a classic facility location problem, where given an edge-weighted graph $G = (V,E)$ one is to find a subset of $k$ vertices $S$, such that each vertex in $V$ is "close" to some vertex in $S$. The approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Tomasz Kociumaka , Marek Cygan

We study the Euclidean minimum weight perfect matching problem for $n$ points in the plane. It is known that any deterministic approximation algorithm whose approximation ratio depends only on $n$ requires at least $\Omega(n \log n)$ time.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Stefan Hougardy , Karolina Tammemaa

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 fair $k$-median problem is one of the important clustering problems. The current best approximation ratio is 4.675 for this problem with 1-fair violation, which was proposed by Bercea et al. [APPROX-RANDOM'2019]. As far as we know,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Di Wu , Qilong Feng , Jianxin Wang

The $k$-center problem is to choose a subset of size $k$ from a set of $n$ points such that the maximum distance from each point to its nearest center is minimized. Let $Q=\{Q_1,\ldots,Q_n\}$ be a set of polygons or segments in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Vahideh Keikha , Sepideh Aghamolaei , Ali Mohades , Mohammad Ghodsi

In the Densest $k$-Subgraph problem, given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the goal is to find a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices that contains maximum number of edges. Even though the state-of-the-art algorithm for the problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Pasin Manurangsi

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

Point location problems for $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space (and $\ell_p$ spaces more generally) have typically had two kinds of running-time solutions: * (Nearly-Linear) less than $d^{poly(d)} \cdot n \log^{O(d)} n$ time, or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Ryan Williams

The $k$-center problem for a point set~$P$ asks for a collection of $k$ congruent balls (that is, balls of equal radius) that together cover all the points in $P$ and whose radius is minimized. The $k$-center problem with outliers is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Mark de Berg , Morteza Monemizadeh , Yu Zhong

Constrained clustering problems generalize classical clustering formulations, e.g., $k$-median, $k$-means, by imposing additional constraints on the feasibility of clustering. There has been significant recent progress in obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma introduced the concept of dimension reduction via a random linear map, which has become a fundamental technique in many computational settings. For a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and any fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Shay Sapir

Clustering is a basic task in data analysis and machine learning, and the optimization of clustering objectives are well-studied optimization problems; amongst these, the $k$-Means objective is arguably the most well known. Given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Moses Charikar , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Ruiquan Gao , Fabrizio Grandoni , Euiwoong Lee , Ernest van Wijland

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

This paper considers the well-studied algorithmic regime of designing a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for a $k$-clustering problem that runs in time $f(k,\epsilon)poly(n)$ (sometimes called an efficient parameterized approximation…

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 study the k nearest neighbors problem in the plane for general, convex, pairwise disjoint sites of constant description complexity such as line segments, disks, and quadrilaterals and with respect to a general family of distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chih-Hung Liu

The input to the $k$-median for lines problem is a set $L$ of $n$ lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and the goal is to compute a set of $k$ centers (points) in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the sum of squared distances over every line in $L$ and its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yair Marom , Dan Feldman

In fully dynamic clustering problems, a clustering of a given data set in a metric space must be maintained while it is modified through insertions and deletions of individual points. In this paper, we resolve the complexity of fully…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-22 MohammadHossein Bateni , Hossein Esfandiari , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Andreas Wiese