I would like to find the $m$ maximally distant subset of points from a collection of $n$ $d$-dimensional points.
Note: I found a similar question on this topic, but unfortunately the proposed answer requires convex optimization (QP) which is not suitable for the very large number of points that I require ($n$).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5400905/most-mutually-distant-k-elements-clustering
I have tried the following algorithm
Add the n d-dimensional points to a kd-tree
while subset S size is greater than n
find the point q from the kd-tree that is least distant to any of its neighbors
remove point q from the kd-tree and the subset S
return the subset S of m maximally distant points
This is obviously non-deterministic since the order in which the points are removed affects the eventual subset of $S$ (this however occasionally returns the correct solution). But the complexity is $(n - m)log(n)$ which is favorable considering $n$ will be $> 100,000$.
Does anyone have ideas about how to improve/replace the above algorithms whilst keeping the complexity down?