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EPTAS for $k$-means Clustering of Affine Subspaces

Eduard Eiben·Fedor V. Fomin·Petr A. Golovach·William Lochet·Fahad Panolan·Kirill Simonov
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We consider a generalization of the fundamental $k$-means clustering for data with incomplete or corrupted entries. When data objects are represented by points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, a data point is said to be incomplete when some of its entries are missing or unspecified. An incomplete data point with at most $Δ$ unspecified entries corresponds to an axis-parallel affine subspace of dimension at most $Δ$, called a $Δ$-point. Thus we seek a partition of $n$ input $Δ$-points into $k$ clusters minimizing the $k$-means objective. For $Δ=0$, when all coordinates of each point are specified, this is the usual $k$-means clustering. We give an algorithm that finds an $(1+ ε)$-approximate solution in time $f(k,ε, Δ) \cdot n^2 \cdot d$ for some function $f$ of $k,ε$, and $Δ$ only.

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Eduard Eiben, Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach, William Lochet, Fahad Panolan, Kirill Simonov. 2020-10-19. EPTAS for $k$-means Clustering of Affine Subspaces. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09580

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