Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithms for Socially Fair $k$-Clustering
(2206.11210)Abstract
We study approximation algorithms for the socially fair $(\ell_p, k)$-clustering problem with $m$ groups, whose special cases include the socially fair $k$-median ($p=1$) and socially fair $k$-means ($p=2$) problems. We present (1) a polynomial-time $(5+2\sqrt{6})p$-approximation with at most $k+m$ centers (2) a $(5+2\sqrt{6}+\epsilon)p$-approximation with $k$ centers in time $n{2{O(p)}\cdot m2}$, and (3) a $(15+6\sqrt{6})p$ approximation with $k$ centers in time $k{m}\cdot\text{poly}(n)$. The first result is obtained via a refinement of the iterative rounding method using a sequence of linear programs. The latter two results are obtained by converting a solution with up to $k+m$ centers to one with $k$ centers using sparsification methods for (2) and via an exhaustive search for (3). We also compare the performance of our algorithms with existing bicriteria algorithms as well as exactly $k$ center approximation algorithms on benchmark datasets, and find that our algorithms also outperform existing methods in practice.
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