Smaller coresets for k-median and k-means clustering

  • Authors:
  • Sariel Har-Peled;Akash Kushal

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • SCG '05 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that there exists a (k, ε)-coreset for k-median and k-means clustering of n points in Rd, which is of size independent of n. In particular, we construct a (k, ε)-coreset of size O(k2/εd) for k-median clustering, and of size O(k3/εd+1) for k-means clustering.