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On Finding the Jaccard Center

Authors Marc Bury, Chris Schwiegelshohn

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  • 1-Center
  • Jaccard

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Abstract

We initiate the study of finding the Jaccard center of a given collection N of sets. For two sets X,Y, the Jaccard index is defined as |X\cap Y|/|X\cup Y| and the corresponding distance is 1-|X\cap Y|/|X\cup Y|. The Jaccard center is a set C minimizing the maximum distance to any set of N.

We show that the problem is NP-hard to solve exactly, and that it admits a PTAS while no FPTAS can exist unless P = NP.
Furthermore, we show that the problem is fixed parameter tractable in the maximum Hamming norm between Jaccard center and any input set. Our algorithms are based on a compression technique similar in spirit to coresets for the Euclidean 1-center problem.

In addition, we also show that, contrary to the previously studied median problem by Chierichetti et al. (SODA 2010), the continuous version of the Jaccard center problem admits a simple polynomial time algorithm.

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Marc Bury and Chris Schwiegelshohn. On Finding the Jaccard Center. In 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 80, pp. 23:1-23:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.23

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Marc Bury
Chris Schwiegelshohn

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