The planar k-means problem is NP-hard

Mahajan, Meena ; Nimbhorkar, Prajakta ; Varadarajan, Kasturi (2012) The planar k-means problem is NP-hard Theoretical Computer Science, 442 . pp. 13-21. ISSN 0304-3975

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2010.05.034

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2010.05.034

Abstract

In the k-means problem, we are given a finite set S of points in ℜm, and integer k<1, and we want to find k points (centers) so as to minimize the sum of the square of the Euclidean distance of each point in S to its nearest center. We show that this well-known problem is NP-hard even for instances in the plane, answering an open question posed by Dasgupta (2007) [7].

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Keywords:Clusteringk-means; Planar graphs; NP-hardness
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