A Simple Linear Time (1+ ") -Approximation Algorithm for k-Means Clustering in Any Dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Amit Kumar;Yogish Sabharwal;Sandeep Sen

  • Affiliations:
  • IIT Delhi;IBM India Research Lab and IIT Delhi;IIT Delhi

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '04 Proceedings of the 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present the first linear time (1+驴)-approximation algorithm for the k-means problem for fixed k and 驴. Our algorithm runs in O(nd) time, which is linear in the size of the input. Another feature of our algorithm is its simplicity 驴 the only technique involved is random sampling.