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Balanced $k$-Center Clustering When $k$ Is A Constant

Computational Geometry 2017-04-11 v1

Abstract

The problem of constrained kk-center clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study balanced kk-center cluster where the size of each cluster is constrained by the given lower and upper bounds. The problem is motivated by the applications in processing and analyzing large-scale data in high dimension. We provide a simple nearly linear time 44-approximation algorithm when the number of clusters kk is assumed to be a constant. Comparing with existing method, our algorithm improves the approximation ratio and significantly reduces the time complexity. Moreover, our result can be easily extended to any metric space.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02515,
  title  = {Balanced $k$-Center Clustering When $k$ Is A Constant},
  author = {Hu Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02515},
  year   = {2017}
}
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