On parameterized approximation algorithms for balanced clustering
Balanced clustering is a frequently encountered problem in applications requiring balanced class distributions, which generalizes the standard clustering problem in that the number of clients connected to each facility is constrained by the given lower and upper bounds. It was known that both the pr...
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| Vydáno v: | Journal of combinatorial optimization Ročník 45; číslo 1; s. 49 |
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| Hlavní autoři: | , , |
| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Vydáno: |
New York
Springer US
01.01.2023
Springer Nature B.V |
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| ISSN: | 1382-6905, 1573-2886 |
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| Shrnutí: | Balanced clustering is a frequently encountered problem in applications requiring balanced class distributions, which generalizes the standard clustering problem in that the number of clients connected to each facility is constrained by the given lower and upper bounds. It was known that both the problems of balanced
k
-means and
k
-median are W[2]-hard if parameterized by
k
, implying that the existences of FPT(
k
)-time exact algorithms for these problems are unlikely. In this paper, we give FPT(
k
)-time
(
9
+
ϵ
)
-approximation and
(
3
+
ϵ
)
-approximation algorithms for balanced
k
-means and
k
-median respectively, improving upon the previous best approximation ratios of
86.9
+
ϵ
and
7.2
+
ϵ
obtained in the same time. Our main technical contribution and the crucial step in getting the improved ratios is a different random sampling method for selecting opened facilities. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 1382-6905 1573-2886 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10878-022-00980-w |