SDS Topical SeminarCompleted2 photos
Local Search for Clustering in Almost-Linear Time
Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 11:00 AM-12:00 PMProf. Yaonan Jin, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyRoom 401, Dao Yuan BuildingHost: Prof. Tao Lin
This talk presents the first local search algorithm for Euclidean clustering that achieves an O(1)-approximation in almost-linear time. It develops a new one-swap local search framework and an efficient approximate nearest-neighbor data structure, with applications to k-means and other metric clustering settings.
