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Hauptverfasser: Maity, Binita, Das, Shrutimoy, Dasgupta, Anirban
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06130
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author Maity, Binita
Das, Shrutimoy
Dasgupta, Anirban
author_facet Maity, Binita
Das, Shrutimoy
Dasgupta, Anirban
contents In this paper, we present a local search-based algorithm for individually fair clustering in the presence of outliers. We consider the individual fairness definition proposed in Jung et al., which requires that each of the $n$ points in the dataset must have one of the $k$ centers within its $n/k$ nearest neighbors. However, if the dataset is known to contain outliers, the set of fair centers obtained under this definition might be suboptimal for non-outlier points. In order to address this issue, we propose a method that discards a set of points marked as outliers and computes the set of fair centers for the remaining non-outlier points. Our method utilizes a randomized variant of local search, which makes it scalable to large datasets. We also provide an approximation guarantee of our method as well as a bound on the number of outliers discarded. Additionally, we demonstrate our claims experimentally on a set of real-world datasets.
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spellingShingle Local Search-based Individually Fair Clustering with Outliers
Maity, Binita
Das, Shrutimoy
Dasgupta, Anirban
Data Structures and Algorithms
In this paper, we present a local search-based algorithm for individually fair clustering in the presence of outliers. We consider the individual fairness definition proposed in Jung et al., which requires that each of the $n$ points in the dataset must have one of the $k$ centers within its $n/k$ nearest neighbors. However, if the dataset is known to contain outliers, the set of fair centers obtained under this definition might be suboptimal for non-outlier points. In order to address this issue, we propose a method that discards a set of points marked as outliers and computes the set of fair centers for the remaining non-outlier points. Our method utilizes a randomized variant of local search, which makes it scalable to large datasets. We also provide an approximation guarantee of our method as well as a bound on the number of outliers discarded. Additionally, we demonstrate our claims experimentally on a set of real-world datasets.
title Local Search-based Individually Fair Clustering with Outliers
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06130