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Linear-size universal discretization of geometric center-based problems in fixed dimensions

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Many geometric optimization problems can be reduced to finding points in space (centers) minimizing an objective function which continuously depends on the distances from the centers to given input points. Examples are k-Means, Geometric k-Median/Center, Continuous Facility Location, m-Variance, etc. We prove that, for any fixed \(\varepsilon >0\), every set of n input points in fixed-dimensional space with the metric induced by any vector norm admits a set of O(n) candidate centers which can be computed in almost linear time and which contains a \((1+\varepsilon )\)-approximation of each point of space with respect to the distances to all the input points. It gives a universal approximation-preserving reduction of geometric center-based problems with arbitrary continuity-type objective functions to their discrete versions where the centers are selected from a fairly small set of candidates. The existence of such a linear-size set of candidates is also shown for any metric space of fixed doubling dimension.

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The study was carried out within the framework of the state contract of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Project 0314-2019-0014).

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Correspondence to Vladimir Shenmaier.

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Shenmaier, V. Linear-size universal discretization of geometric center-based problems in fixed dimensions. J Comb Optim 43, 528–542 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-021-00790-6

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