Programmable clustering

  • Authors:
  • Sreenivas Gollapudi;Ravi Kumar;D. Sivakumar

  • Affiliations:
  • Ebrary Inc., Palo Alto, CA;Yahoo! Research, Sunnyvale, CA;Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We initiate a novel study of clustering problems. Rather than specifying an explicit objective function to optimize, our framework allows the user of clustering algorithm to specify, via a first-order formula, what constitutes an acceptable clustering to them. While the resulting genre of problems includes, in general, NP-complete problems, we highlight three specific first-order formulae, and provide efficient algorithms for the resulting clustering problems.