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Perturbation Resilient Clustering for k-Center and Related Problems via LP Relaxations

Authors Chandra Chekuri, Shalmoli Gupta

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  • Theory of computation → Facility location and clustering
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  • Clustering
  • Perturbation Resilience
  • LP Integrality
  • Outliers
  • Beyond Worst Case Analysis

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Abstract

We consider clustering in the perturbation resilience model that has been studied since the work of Bilu and Linial [Yonatan Bilu and Nathan Linial, 2010] and Awasthi, Blum and Sheffet [Awasthi et al., 2012]. A clustering instance I is said to be alpha-perturbation resilient if the optimal solution does not change when the pairwise distances are modified by a factor of alpha and the perturbed distances satisfy the metric property - this is the metric perturbation resilience property introduced in [Angelidakis et al., 2017] and a weaker requirement than prior models. We make two high-level contributions. 
- We show that the natural LP relaxation of k-center and asymmetric k-center is integral for 2-perturbation resilient instances. We belive that demonstrating the goodness of standard LP relaxations complements existing results [Maria{-}Florina Balcan et al., 2016; Angelidakis et al., 2017] that are based on new algorithms designed for the perturbation model. 
- We define a simple new model of perturbation resilience for clustering with outliers. Using this model we show that the unified MST and dynamic programming based algorithm proposed in [Angelidakis et al., 2017] exactly solves the clustering with outliers problem for several common center based objectives (like k-center, k-means, k-median) when the instances is 2-perturbation resilient. We further show that a natural LP relxation is integral for 2-perturbation resilient instances of k-center with outliers.

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Chandra Chekuri and Shalmoli Gupta. Perturbation Resilient Clustering for k-Center and Related Problems via LP Relaxations. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 116, pp. 9:1-9:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2018.9

Author Details

Chandra Chekuri
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Shalmoli Gupta
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA

Funding

Work on this paper supported in part by NSF grants CCF-1319376 and CCF-1526799.

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