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Compressed Counting (CC), based on maximally skewed stable random projections, was recently proposed for estimating the p-th frequency moments of data streams. The case p->1 is extremely useful for estimating Shannon entropy of data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Ping Li

Compressed Counting (CC) was recently proposed for very efficiently computing the (approximate) $\alpha$th frequency moments of data streams, where $0<\alpha <= 2$. Several estimators were reported including the geometric mean estimator,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-14 Ping Li

Estimating the p-th frequency moment of data stream is a very heavily studied problem. The problem is actually trivial when p = 1, assuming the strict Turnstile model. The sample complexity of our proposed algorithm is essentially O(1) near…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Ping Li

We present space-efficient linear sketches for estimating trimmed statistics of an $n$-dimensional frequency vector $x$, e.g., the sum of $p$-th powers of the largest $k$ frequencies (i.e., entries) in absolute value, or the $k$-trimmed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Honghao Lin , Hoai-An Nguyen , David P. Woodruff

A central problem in the theory of algorithms for data streams is to determine which functions on a stream can be approximated in sublinear, and especially sub-polynomial or poly-logarithmic, space. Given a function $g$, we study the space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Vladimir Braverman , Stephen R. Chestnut , David P. Woodruff , Lin F. Yang

One of the oldest problems in the data stream model is to approximate the $p$-th moment $\|\mathcal{X}\|_p^p = \sum_{i=1}^n |\mathcal{X}_i|^p$ of an underlying vector $\mathcal{X} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, which is presented as a sequence of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff

We propose skewed stable random projections for approximating the pth frequency moments of dynamic data streams (0<p<=2), which has been frequently studied in theoretical computer science and database communities. Our method significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-07 Ping Li

Histograms, i.e., piece-wise constant approximations, are a popular tool used to represent data distributions. Traditionally, the difference between the histogram and the underlying distribution (i.e., the approximation error) is measured…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We study distributed algorithms for some fundamental problems in data summarization. Given a communication graph $G$ of $n$ nodes each of which may hold a value initially, we focus on computing $\sum_{i=1}^N g(f_i)$, where $f_i$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Hsin-Hao Su , Hoa T. Vu

We present a novel approach for the problem of frequency estimation in data streams that is based on optimization and machine learning. Contrary to state-of-the-art streaming frequency estimation algorithms, which heavily rely on random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis

In the distributed monitoring model, a data stream over a universe of size $n$ is distributed over $k$ servers, who must continuously provide certain statistics of the overall dataset, while minimizing communication with a central…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Honghao Lin , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

The exact computation of the number of distinct elements (frequency moment $F_0$) is a fundamental problem in the study of data streaming algorithms. We denote the length of the stream by $n$ where each symbol is drawn from a universe of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Hartmut Klauck , Ved Prakash

Frequency estimation is one of the most fundamental problems in streaming algorithms. Given a stream $S$ of elements from some universe $U=\{1 \ldots n\}$, the goal is to compute, in a single pass, a short sketch of $S$ so that for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , David P. Woodruff

Estimating frequency moments of data streams is a very well studied problem and tight bounds are known on the amount of space that is necessary and sufficient when the stream is adversarially ordered. Recently, motivated by various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-19 Alexandr Andoni , Andrew McGregor , Krzysztof Onak , Rina Panigrahy

Many streaming algorithms provide only a high-probability relative approximation. These two relaxations, of allowing approximation and randomization, seem necessary -- for many streaming problems, both relaxations must be employed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Vladimir Braverman , Robert Krauthgamer , Aditya Krishnan , Shay Sapir

For any real number $p > 0$, we nearly completely characterize the space complexity of estimating $\|A\|_p^p = \sum_{i=1}^n \sigma_i^p$ for $n \times n$ matrices $A$ in which each row and each column has $O(1)$ non-zero entries and whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yi Li , David P. Woodruff

The $k$'th frequency moment of a sequence of integers is defined as $F_k = \sum_j n_j^k$, where $n_j$ is the number of times that $j$ occurs in the sequence. Here we study the quantum complexity of approximately computing the frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Ashley Montanaro

Compressed Counting (CC) [22] was recently proposed for estimating the ath frequency moments of data streams, where 0 < a <= 2. CC can be used for estimating Shannon entropy, which can be approximated by certain functions of the ath…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Ping Li

In this paper, we study streaming algorithms that minimize the number of changes made to their internal state (i.e., memory contents). While the design of streaming algorithms typically focuses on minimizing space and update time, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Let $P=(P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_n)$, $P_i \in \field{R}$ for all $i$, be a signal and let $C$ be a constant. In this work our goal is to find a function $F:[n]\rightarrow \field{R}$ which optimizes the following objective function: $$ \min_{F}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Russell Schwartz , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis