45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'04)
A Simple Linear Time (1+ ∊) -Approximation Algorithm for k-Means Clustering in Any Dimensions
Rome, Italy
October 17-October 19
ISBN: 0-7695-2228-9
We present the first linear time (1+ε)-approximation algorithm for the k-means problem for fixed k and ε. Our algorithm runs in O(nd) time, which is linear in the size of the input. Another feature of our algorithm is its simplicity — the only technique involved is random sampling.
Citation:
Amit Kumar, Yogish Sabharwal, Sandeep Sen, "A Simple Linear Time (1+ ∊) -Approximation Algorithm for k-Means Clustering in Any Dimensions," focs, pp.454-462, 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'04), 2004