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We study fair clustering problems as proposed by Chierichetti et al. [CKLV17]. Here, points have a sensitive attribute and all clusters in the solution are required to be balanced with respect to it (to counteract any form of data-inherent bias). Previous algorithms for fair clustering do not scale well. We show how to model and compute so-called coresets for fair clustering problems, which can be used to significantly reduce the input data size. We prove that the coresets are composable [IMMM14] and show how to compute them in a streaming setting. This yields a streaming PTAS for fair k-means in the case of two colors (and exact balances). Furthermore, we extend techniques due to Chierichetti et al. [CKLV17] to obtain an approximation algorithm for k-means, which leads to a constant factor algorithm in the streaming model when combined with the coreset.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Approximation and Online Algorithms - 17th International Workshop, WAOA 2019, Revised Selected Papers |
Editors | Evripidis Bampis, Nicole Megow |
Number of pages | 20 |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication year | 2020 |
Pages | 232-251 |
ISBN (print) | 9783030394783 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 17th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2019 - Munich, Germany Duration: 12 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019 |
Conference | 17th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2019 |
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Land | Germany |
By | Munich |
Periode | 12/09/2019 → 13/09/2019 |
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 11926 LNCS |
ISSN | 0302-9743 |
Funding Information:
This work was done while the first author was at University of Bonn and the third author was at TU Dortmund. The second author acknowledges support by the ERC Advanced Grant 788893 AMDROMA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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