Almost Optimal Fully Dynamic $k$-Center Clustering with Recourse

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Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Sayan, Costa, Martín, Farokhnejad, Ermiya, Lattanzi, Silvio, Parotsidis, Nikos
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author Bhattacharya, Sayan
Costa, Martín
Farokhnejad, Ermiya
Lattanzi, Silvio
Parotsidis, Nikos
author_facet Bhattacharya, Sayan
Costa, Martín
Farokhnejad, Ermiya
Lattanzi, Silvio
Parotsidis, Nikos
contents In this paper, we consider the \emph{metric $k$-center} problem in the fully dynamic setting, where we are given a metric space $(V,d)$ evolving via a sequence of point insertions and deletions and our task is to maintain a subset $S \subseteq V$ of at most $k$ points that minimizes the objective $\max_{x \in V} \min_{y \in S}d(x, y)$. We want to design our algorithm so that we minimize its \emph{approximation ratio}, \emph{recourse} (the number of changes it makes to the solution $S$), and \emph{update time} (the time it takes to handle an update). We give a simple algorithm for dynamic $k$-center that maintains a $O(1)$-approximate solution with $O(1)$ amortized recourse and $\tilde O(k)$ amortized update time, \emph{obtaining near-optimal approximation, recourse, and update time simultaneously}. We obtain our result by combining a variant of the dynamic $k$-center algorithm of Bateni et al.~[SODA'23] with the dynamic sparsifier of Bhattacharya et al.~[NeurIPS'23].
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spellingShingle Almost Optimal Fully Dynamic $k$-Center Clustering with Recourse
Bhattacharya, Sayan
Costa, Martín
Farokhnejad, Ermiya
Lattanzi, Silvio
Parotsidis, Nikos
Data Structures and Algorithms
In this paper, we consider the \emph{metric $k$-center} problem in the fully dynamic setting, where we are given a metric space $(V,d)$ evolving via a sequence of point insertions and deletions and our task is to maintain a subset $S \subseteq V$ of at most $k$ points that minimizes the objective $\max_{x \in V} \min_{y \in S}d(x, y)$. We want to design our algorithm so that we minimize its \emph{approximation ratio}, \emph{recourse} (the number of changes it makes to the solution $S$), and \emph{update time} (the time it takes to handle an update). We give a simple algorithm for dynamic $k$-center that maintains a $O(1)$-approximate solution with $O(1)$ amortized recourse and $\tilde O(k)$ amortized update time, \emph{obtaining near-optimal approximation, recourse, and update time simultaneously}. We obtain our result by combining a variant of the dynamic $k$-center algorithm of Bateni et al.~[SODA'23] with the dynamic sparsifier of Bhattacharya et al.~[NeurIPS'23].
title Almost Optimal Fully Dynamic $k$-Center Clustering with Recourse
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11470