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Moderate Dimension Reduction for k-Center Clustering

Authors Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Shay Sapir

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  • Theory of computation → Random projections and metric embeddings
  • Theory of computation → Sketching and sampling
  • Theory of computation → Streaming models
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  • Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform
  • dimension reduction
  • clustering
  • streaming algorithms

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Abstract

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma introduced the concept of dimension reduction via a random linear map, which has become a fundamental technique in many computational settings. For a set of n points in ℝ^d and any fixed ε > 0, it reduces the dimension d to O(log n) while preserving, with high probability, all the pairwise Euclidean distances within factor 1+ε. Perhaps surprisingly, the target dimension can be lower if one only wishes to preserve the optimal value of a certain problem on the pointset, e.g., Euclidean max-cut or k-means. However, for some notorious problems, like diameter (aka furthest pair), dimension reduction via the JL map to below O(log n) does not preserve the optimal value within factor 1+ε.
We propose to focus on another regime, of moderate dimension reduction, where a problem’s value is preserved within factor α > 1 using target dimension (log n)/poly(α). We establish the viability of this approach and show that the famous k-center problem is α-approximated when reducing to dimension O({log n}/α² + log k). Along the way, we address the diameter problem via the special case k = 1. Our result extends to several important variants of k-center (with outliers, capacities, or fairness constraints), and the bound improves further with the input’s doubling dimension. 
While our poly(α)-factor improvement in the dimension may seem small, it actually has significant implications for streaming algorithms, and easily yields an algorithm for k-center in dynamic geometric streams, that achieves O(α)-approximation using space poly(kdn^{1/α²}). This is the first algorithm to beat O(n) space in high dimension d, as all previous algorithms require space at least exp(d). Furthermore, it extends to the k-center variants mentioned above.

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Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang, Robert Krauthgamer, and Shay Sapir. Moderate Dimension Reduction for k-Center Clustering. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 64:1-64:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.64

Author Details

Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang
  • Peking University, Beijing, China
Robert Krauthgamer
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Shay Sapir
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Funding

  • Jiang, Shaofeng H.-C.: Research partially supported by a national key R&D program of China No. 2021YFA1000900 and a startup fund from Peking University.
  • Krauthgamer, Robert: Work partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant #1336/23, and by the Weizmann Data Science Research Center.
  • Sapir, Shay: This research was partially supported by the Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE) via the Weizmann Data Science Research Center.

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