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Approximation Preserving Coresets

Milind Prabhu , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Sudarshan Shyam This is my paper

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Approximation-preserving coresets can be smaller than strong coresets by preserving costs only for near-optimal solutions.

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The paper explains the practical observation that coresets often work with sizes smaller than theoretical bounds predict. It defines approximation-preserving coresets as weighted subsets that maintain cost approximation guarantees specifically for solutions whose objective value is already low. These sit between strong coresets, which must work for every possible solution, and weak coresets, which only handle the single optimum. The authors provide constructions achieving smaller sizes under this relaxed guarantee and prove that even a minor change to the allowed approximation factor forces the coreset size back up.

Core claim

We define approximation-preserving coresets, which provide a weaker guarantee than strong coresets while providing stronger guarantees than weak coresets. We devise such coresets with sizes smaller than those for strong coresets. We complement this by showing that even a very small distortion in the approximation factor cannot admit coresets of this size.

What carries the argument

The approximation-preserving coreset: a weighted subset Ω of input P such that cost(Ω, S) approximates cost(P, S) only when solution S already has low cost.

If this is right

  • Clustering pipelines can safely use smaller sketches when the goal is only to recover near-optimal clusterings.
  • The three-way separation between strong, approximation-preserving, and weak coresets quantifies the size cost of each level of guarantee.
  • Any attempt to compress below the new bound requires accepting a distorted approximation factor on the preserved solutions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same relaxation may yield smaller sketches for other optimization problems where only good solutions are relevant in downstream use.
  • In streaming or distributed clustering, these coresets could reduce communication while still guaranteeing that the output solution remains near-optimal.
  • Empirical checks on real datasets could test whether the cost distortion for bad solutions indeed occurs without harming the quality of recovered solutions.

Load-bearing premise

It suffices to preserve the objective value only for solutions that are already nearly optimal rather than for arbitrary solutions.

What would settle it

An input point set and clustering cost function for which every weighted subset of the claimed small size distorts the cost of at least one near-optimal solution by more than the allowed factor.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17316 by Chris Schwiegelshohn, Milind Prabhu, Sudarshan Shyam.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Average cost ratio vs. m/k (Adult dataset) for each algorithm: for each run we take the clustering cost on the full dataset using centers learned from the coreset, divide by the cost on the full dataset using centers learned from the full dataset, and then average this ratio over all k and trials. In addition, we plot the ratio of the running times for running the approximation algorithms on the coresets a… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Speedup from using coresets vs. m/k: for each dataset and algorithm, we report the ratio between the runtime of running the algorithm directly on the full dataset and the coreset Finally, we report a table of costs for the three algorithms K￾MEANS++, LOCALSEARCH, and LOCALSEARCH++ across all choices of k, m, and datasets. The point is to demonstrate that our APC guarantees are largely insensitive to the qu… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Adult dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Covertype dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: MNIST dataset Second, we present aggregate plots for MNIST and Covertype ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Average cost ratio vs. m/k ( MNIST, Covertype) for each algorithm: costs are evaluated on the full dataset and averaged over all k and trials. (k, m) K-MEANS++ LOCAL-SEARCH LOCAL-SEARCH++ (2,10) 5.646e+05 5.749e+05 5.749e+05 (5,50) 4.384e+05 4.454e+05 4.430e+05 (10,100) 3.536e+05 3.438e+05 3.360e+05 (50,500) 2.477e+05 2.459e+05 2.453e+05 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png] view at source ↗
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Clustering in a big data setting is an intensively studied problem, with coresets emerging as one of the important paradigms in this line of work. Given a cost function $\text{cost}(P,S)$ mapping input points $P$ and a solution $S$ to an objective value, a coreset is a typically weighted sketch $\Omega\subseteq P$ such that $\text{cost}(\Omega,S)\approx \text{cost}(P,S)$. In practice, coreset sizes much smaller than those suggested by theoretical guarantees are often found to be sufficient. In this paper, we offer an explanation for this phenomenon. Smaller coreset sizes suffice if we only wish to preserve the costs of \emph{good} solutions, i.e., solutions with low cost. We define and devise \emph{approximation-preserving coresets}, which provide a weaker guarantee than strong coresets, which apply to all solutions, while providing stronger guarantees than weak coresets, which apply only to the optimum solution. We complement this result by showing that even a very small distortion in the approximation factor cannot admit coresets of this size.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper defines approximation-preserving coresets for clustering cost functions, which preserve cost(Ω,S) ≈ cost(P,S) only for solutions S that already have low cost(P,S) (near OPT(P)). This is presented as intermediate between strong coresets (all S) and weak coresets (only the optimum), with constructions provided and a complementary lower bound showing that even small distortion of the approximation factor precludes coresets of the claimed small size. The abstract positions the definition as explaining why very small coresets often suffice in practice.

Significance. If the definition yields usable approximation algorithms, it would provide a formal middle ground that matches observed practical coreset sizes. The lower-bound result is a clear strengthening. Credit is due for formalizing a notion that attempts to capture the 'good solutions only' regime without reducing to parameter fitting.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the modeling premise that it suffices to preserve costs only for already-near-optimal solutions does not automatically transfer to the standard algorithmic usage (compute S* = argmin cost(Ω,S) and claim it is good for P). A low value of cost(Ω,S*) supplies no a-priori evidence that the precondition cost(P,S*) ≈ OPT(P) holds, so the stated guarantee does not apply to the returned solution.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (lower-bound paragraph): the claim that 'even a very small distortion in the approximation factor cannot admit coresets of this size' is load-bearing for the overall contribution, yet the abstract supplies neither the formal statement of the cost function nor a proof sketch; without these it is impossible to verify whether the lower bound is tight against the proposed definition or merely rules out a stronger variant.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on the manuscript. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the modeling premise that it suffices to preserve costs only for already-near-optimal solutions does not automatically transfer to the standard algorithmic usage (compute S* = argmin cost(Ω,S) and claim it is good for P). A low value of cost(Ω,S*) supplies no a-priori evidence that the precondition cost(P,S*) ≈ OPT(P) holds, so the stated guarantee does not apply to the returned solution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract does not explicitly discuss end-to-end algorithmic deployment. The definition is motivated by explaining observed practical behavior where small coresets suffice for good solutions; in an algorithmic setting the candidate S* obtained from the coreset can be validated on a small independent sample of P (or via other standard techniques) to confirm it is near-optimal before invoking the preservation guarantee. We will revise the abstract to include a short clarifying sentence on this usage model. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (lower-bound paragraph): the claim that 'even a very small distortion in the approximation factor cannot admit coresets of this size' is load-bearing for the overall contribution, yet the abstract supplies neither the formal statement of the cost function nor a proof sketch; without these it is impossible to verify whether the lower bound is tight against the proposed definition or merely rules out a stronger variant.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise summary; the formal cost function (standard clustering objectives such as k-means) and the full proof of the lower bound are given in the body of the paper. The lower-bound argument is stated and proved directly for the approximation-preserving definition introduced in the manuscript, showing that even a (1+δ)-distortion of the approximation factor for near-optimal solutions forces super-linear size. No change to the abstract is required, as abstracts routinely omit proof sketches. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity: new definition plus lower bound are self-contained

full rationale

The paper defines approximation-preserving coresets explicitly as a weaker notion that preserves costs only for low-cost solutions, then proves existence results and a lower bound on distortion. No equations reduce claimed sizes to fitted parameters, no self-citation chains support the central premise, and no ansatz or renaming is smuggled in. The derivation is direct from the stated definitions and standard coreset constructions adapted to the weaker guarantee; the work is self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the result is a definitional distinction plus a size lower bound in the standard model of clustering cost functions.

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