The computational complexity of some explainable clustering problems

Abstract

We study the computational complexity of some explainable clustering problems in the framework proposed by [Dasgupta et al., ICML 2020], where explainability is achieved via axis-aligned decision trees. We consider the k-means, k-medians, k-centers and the spacing cost functions. We prove that the first three are hard to optimize while the latter can be optimized in polynomial time.

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