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We present a randomized algorithm for estimating the $p$th moment $F_p$ of the frequency vector of a data stream in the general update (turnstile) model to within a multiplicative factor of $1 \pm \epsilon$, for $p > 2$, with high constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Sumit Ganguly

For each $p \in (0,2]$, we present a randomized algorithm that returns an $\epsilon$-approximation of the $p$th frequency moment of a data stream $F_p = \sum_{i = 1}^n \abs{f_i}^p$. The algorithm requires space $O(\epsilon^{-2} \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-21 Sumit Ganguly

We revisit one of the classic problems in the data stream literature, namely, that of estimating the frequency moments $F_p$ for $0 < p < 2$ of an underlying $n$-dimensional vector presented as a sequence of additive updates in a stream. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Vladimir Braverman , Emanuele Viola , David Woodruff , Lin F. Yang

A data stream is viewed as a sequence of $M$ updates of the form $(\text{index},i,v)$ to an $n$-dimensional integer frequency vector $f$, where the update changes $f_i$ to $f_i + v$, and $v$ is an integer and assumed to be in $\{-m, ...,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-01 Sumit Ganguly , Purushottam Kar

We study the classical problem of moment estimation of an underlying vector whose $n$ coordinates are implicitly defined through a series of updates in a data stream. We show that if the updates to the vector arrive in the random-order…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

The problem of estimating the pth moment F_p (p nonnegative and real) in data streams is as follows. There is a vector x which starts at 0, and many updates of the form x_i <-- x_i + v come sequentially in a stream. The algorithm also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Daniel M. Kane , Jelani Nelson , David P. Woodruff

We show an improved lower bound for the Fp estimation problem in a data stream setting for p>2. A data stream is a sequence of items from the domain [n] with possible repetitions. The frequency vector x is an n-dimensional non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Sumit Ganguly

We study $\ell_p$ sampling and frequency moment estimation in a single-pass insertion-only data stream. For $p \in (0,2)$, we present a nearly space-optimal approximate $\ell_p$ sampler that uses $\widetilde{O}(\log n \log(1/\delta))$ bits…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Honghao Lin , Hoai-An Nguyen , William Swartworth , David P. Woodruff

We give a space-optimal algorithm with update time O(log^2(1/eps)loglog(1/eps)) for (1+eps)-approximating the pth frequency moment, 0 < p < 2, of a length-n vector updated in a data stream. This provides a nearly exponential improvement in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-26 Daniel M. Kane , Jelani Nelson , Ely Porat , David P. Woodruff

Estimating the first moment of a data stream defined as $F_1 = \sum_{i \in \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}} \abs{f_i}$ to within $1 \pm \epsilon$-relative error with high probability is a basic and influential problem in data stream processing. A tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Sumit Ganguly , Purushottam Kar

Given data stream $D = \{p_1,p_2,...,p_m\}$ of size $m$ of numbers from $\{1,..., n\}$, the frequency of $i$ is defined as $f_i = |\{j: p_j = i\}|$. The $k$-th \emph{frequency moment} of $D$ is defined as $F_k = \sum_{i=1}^n f_i^k$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-05 Vladimir Braverman , Rafail Ostrovsky

In this paper we consider the problem of approximating frequency moments in the streaming model. Given a stream $D = \{p_1,p_2,\dots,p_m\}$ of numbers from $\{1,\dots, n\}$, a frequency of $i$ is defined as $f_i = |\{j: p_j = i\}|$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Vladimir Braverman , Jonathan Katzman , Charles Seidell , Gregory Vorsanger

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 consider the heavy-hitters and $F_p$ moment estimation problems in the sliding window model. For $F_p$ moment estimation with $1<p\leq 2$, we show that it is possible to give a $(1\pm \epsilon)$ multiplicative approximation to the $F_p$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Shiyuan Feng , William Swartworth , David P. Woodruff

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 consider the problem of sketching the $p$-th frequency moment of a vector, $p>2$, with multiplicative error at most $1\pm \epsilon$ and \emph{with high confidence} $1-\delta$. Despite the long sequence of work on this problem, tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Sumit Ganguly , David P. Woodruff

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

We propose a novel framework for statistical estimation on noisy datasets. Within this framework, we focus on the frequency moments ($F_p$) problem and demonstrate that it is possible to approximate $F_p$ of the unknown ground-truth dataset…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kaiwen Liu , Qin Zhang

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

Estimating the second frequency moment of a stream up to $(1\pm\varepsilon)$ multiplicative error requires at most $O(\log n / \varepsilon^2)$ bits of space, due to a seminal result of Alon, Matias, and Szegedy. It is also known that at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mark Braverman , Or Zamir
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