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Given a finite set of points $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, we would like to find a small subset $S \subseteq P$ such that the convex hull of $S$ approximately contains $P$. More formally, every point in $P$ is within distance $\epsilon$ from…

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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,…

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