An incremental exact algorithm for the hyper-rectangular clustering problem with axis-parallel clusters

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Auteurs principaux: Donne, Diego Delle, Marenco, Javier, Moreno, Eduardo
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author Donne, Diego Delle
Marenco, Javier
Moreno, Eduardo
author_facet Donne, Diego Delle
Marenco, Javier
Moreno, Eduardo
contents We address the problem of clustering a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with axis-parallel clusters. Previous exact approaches to this problem are mostly based on integer programming formulations and can only solve to optimality instances of small size. In this work we propose an adaptive exact strategy which takes advantage of the capacity to solve small instances to optimality of previous approaches. Our algorithm starts by solving an instance with a small subset of points and iteratively adds more points if these are not covered by the obtained solution. We prove that as soon as a solution covers the whole set of point from the instance, then the solution is actually an optimal solution for the original problem. We compare the efficiency of the new method against the existing ones with an exhaustive computational experimentation in which we show that the new approach is able to solve to optimality instances of higher orders of magnitude.
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spellingShingle An incremental exact algorithm for the hyper-rectangular clustering problem with axis-parallel clusters
Donne, Diego Delle
Marenco, Javier
Moreno, Eduardo
Discrete Mathematics
We address the problem of clustering a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with axis-parallel clusters. Previous exact approaches to this problem are mostly based on integer programming formulations and can only solve to optimality instances of small size. In this work we propose an adaptive exact strategy which takes advantage of the capacity to solve small instances to optimality of previous approaches. Our algorithm starts by solving an instance with a small subset of points and iteratively adds more points if these are not covered by the obtained solution. We prove that as soon as a solution covers the whole set of point from the instance, then the solution is actually an optimal solution for the original problem. We compare the efficiency of the new method against the existing ones with an exhaustive computational experimentation in which we show that the new approach is able to solve to optimality instances of higher orders of magnitude.
title An incremental exact algorithm for the hyper-rectangular clustering problem with axis-parallel clusters
topic Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11803