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Faster and Simpler Greedy Algorithm for $k$-Median and $k$-Means

arXiv:2407. 11217v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clustering problems such as $k$-means and $k$-median are staples of unsupervised learning, and many algorithmic techniques have been developed to tackle their numerous aspects.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Randomizing the Number of Centers in k-means++

arXiv:2607. 26202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The $k$-means++ algorithm is a standard and widely used seeding method for $k$-means clustering, but for a fixed number $k$ of centers its worst-case expected approximation ratio is $\Theta(\log k)$.

By Vaclav Rozhon
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

A Fast and Effective Method for Euclidean Anticlustering: The Assignment-Based-Anticlustering Algorithm

arXiv:2601. 06351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anticlustering is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that consists of partitioning a set of objects into equal-sized groups called anticlusters such that the objects in the same anticluster are as dissimilar as possible and thereby representative of the entire set of objects.

By Philipp Baumann, Olivier Goldschmidt, Dorit S. Hochbaum, Jason Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Incremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs

arXiv:2602. 08542v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given a weighted undirected graph, a number of clusters $k$, and an exponent $z$, the goal in the $(k, z)$-clustering problem on graphs is to select $k$ vertices as centers that minimize the sum of the distances raised to the power $z$ of each vertex to its closest center.

By Emilio Cruciani, Sebastian Forster, Antonis Skarlatos
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Learning Partition Trees for Nearest Neighbor Search

arXiv:2607. 09909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study nearest neighbor search from the perspective of data-driven algorithm design: given a dataset $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of size $n$ and sample access to a query distribution over $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal is to learn a data structure optimized for queries drawn from that specific distribution.

By Sanjeev Khanna, Ashwin Padaki, Erik Waingarten
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Hierarchical $\mathcal{F}$-Clustering: Approximation and Hardness of Clustering into Trees and Bounded Diameter Graphs

Consider the following variation on the Hierarchical Clustering problem: Usually, while building a hierarchical clustering, one recursively partitions the data until each cluster becomes a singleton. We relax the halting condition of the recursive process to stop whenever the remaining cluster is a graph belonging to a class $\mathcal{F}$.