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Can You Solve Closest String Faster than Exhaustive Search?
We study the fundamental problem of finding the best string to represent a given set, in the form of the Closest String problem: Given a set $X \subseteq \Sigma^d$ of $n$ strings, find the string $x^*$ minimizing the radius of the smallest Hamming ball around $x^*$ that encloses all the strings in $X$.
Impossibility of Depth Reduction in Explainable Clustering
Formally, we show that there exists a data set X in the Euclidean plane, for which there is a decision tree of depth k-1 whose k-means/k-median cost matches the optimal clustering cost of X, but every decision tree of depth less than k-1 has unbounded cost w. r. t.
Clustering Categorical Data: Soft Rounding k-modes
Over the last three decades, researchers have intensively explored various clustering tools for categorical data analysis.
On Complexity of 1-Center in Various Metrics
Moreover, we extend one of our hardness results to rule out subquartic algorithms for the well-studied 1-median problem in the edit metric, where given a set of $n$ strings each of length $n$, the goal is to find a string in the set that minimizes the sum of the edit distances to the rest of the strings in the set.
On Efficient Low Distortion Ultrametric Embedding
In this paper, we provide a new algorithm which takes as input a set of points $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and for every $c\ge 1$, runs in time $n^{1+\frac{\rho}{c^2}}$ (for some universal constant $\rho>1$) to output an ultrametric $\Delta$ such that for any two points $u, v$ in $P$, we have $\Delta(u, v)$ is within a multiplicative factor of $5c$ to the distance between $u$ and $v$ in the "best" ultrametric representation of $P$.
