Scalable Algorithms for Individual Preference Stable Clustering

R Mosenzon, A Vakilian - International Conference on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we study the individual preference (IP) stability, which is an notion capturing
individual fairness and stability in clustering. Within this setting, a clustering is $\alpha $-IP …

A Scalable Algorithm for Individually Fair K-means Clustering

MH Bateni, V Cohen-Addad… - International …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present a scalable algorithm for the individually fair ($ p $, $ k $)-clustering problem
introduced by Jung et al. and Mahabadi et al. Given $ n $ points $ P $ in a metric space, let …

Fair k-center Clustering with Outliers

D Amagata - International Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
The importance of dealing with big data is further increasing, as machine learning (ML)
systems obtain useful knowledge from big datasets. However, using all data is practically …

Towards Fairer Centroids in K-means Clustering

S Simoes, P Deepak, M MacCarthaigh - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
There has been much recent interest in developing fair clustering algorithms that seek to do
justice to the representation of groups defined along sensitive attributes such as race and …

FairHash: A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap

N Shahbazi, S Sintos, A Asudeh - … of the ACM on Management of Data, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Hashmap is a fundamental data structure in computer science. There has been extensive
research on constructing hashmaps that minimize the number of collisions leading to …

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Why Local Search Works for Clustering with Fair-Center Representation

Z Zhang, J Yang, L Liu, X Xu, G Rong… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
The representative k-median problem generalizes the classical clustering formulations in
that it partitions the data points into several disjoint demographic groups and poses a lower …

Fair Clustering: Critique, Caveats, and Future Directions

J Dickerson, SA Esmaeili, J Morgenstern… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Clustering is a fundamental problem in machine learning and operations research.
Therefore, given the fact that fairness considerations have become of paramount importance …

Coresets for Deletion-Robust k-Center Clustering

R Li, Y Wang, M Mathioudakis - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The k-center clustering problem is of fundamental importance for a broad range of machine
learning and data science applications. In this paper, we study the deletion-robust version of …

On Socially Fair Low-Rank Approximation and Column Subset Selection

Z Song, A Vakilian, DP Woodruff, S Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06063, 2024 - arxiv.org
Low-rank approximation and column subset selection are two fundamental and related
problems that are applied across a wealth of machine learning applications. In this paper …

A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap

A Asudeh, N Shahbazi, S Sintos - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11355, 2023 - arxiv.org
There is a large amount of work constructing hashmaps to minimize the number of collisions.
However, to the best of our knowledge no known hashing technique guarantees group …