Clustering What Matters in Constrained Settings: Improved Outlier to Outlier-Free Reductions

Authors Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar



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Ragesh Jaiswal
  • CSE, IIT Delhi, India
Amit Kumar
  • CSE, IIT Delhi, India

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Ragesh Jaiswal and Amit Kumar. Clustering What Matters in Constrained Settings: Improved Outlier to Outlier-Free Reductions. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 41:1-41:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.41

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Constrained clustering problems generalize classical clustering formulations, e.g., k-median, k-means, by imposing additional constraints on the feasibility of a clustering. There has been significant recent progress in obtaining approximation algorithms for these problems, both in the metric and the Euclidean settings. However, the outlier version of these problems, where the solution is allowed to leave out m points from the clustering, is not well understood. In this work, we give a general framework for reducing the outlier version of a constrained k-median or k-means problem to the corresponding outlier-free version with only (1+ε)-loss in the approximation ratio. The reduction is obtained by mapping the original instance of the problem to f(k, m, ε) instances of the outlier-free version, where f(k, m, ε) = ((k+m)/ε)^O(m). As specific applications, we get the following results: - First FPT (in the parameters k and m) (1+ε)-approximation algorithm for the outlier version of capacitated k-median and k-means in Euclidean spaces with hard capacities. - First FPT (in the parameters k and m) (3+ε) and (9+ε) approximation algorithms for the outlier version of capacitated k-median and k-means, respectively, in general metric spaces with hard capacities. - First FPT (in the parameters k and m) (2-δ)-approximation algorithm for the outlier version of the k-median problem under the Ulam metric. Our work generalizes the results of Bhattacharya et al. and Agrawal et al. to a larger class of constrained clustering problems. Further, our reduction works for arbitrary metric spaces and so can extend clustering algorithms for outlier-free versions in both Euclidean and arbitrary metric spaces.

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  • Theory of computation → Facility location and clustering
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  • clustering
  • constrained
  • outlier

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