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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

We present an algorithm for computing $F_p$, the $p$th moment of an $n$-dimensional frequency vector of a data stream, for $2 < p < \log (n) $, to within $1\pm \epsilon$ factors, $\epsilon \in [n^{-1/p},1]$ with high constant probability.…

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

The problem of estimating frequency moments of a data stream has attracted a lot of attention since the onset of streaming algorithms [AMS99]. While the space complexity for approximately computing the $p^{\rm th}$ moment, for $p\in(0,2]$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Alexandr Andoni , Huy L. Nguyen , Yury Polyanskiy , Yihong Wu

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

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 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

Estimating the second frequency moment $F_2$ of a data stream up to a $(1 \pm \varepsilon)$ factor is a central problem in the streaming literature. For errors $\varepsilon > \Omega(1/\sqrt{n})$, the tight bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Naomi Green-Maimon , Or Zamir

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

In this paper, we present near-optimal space bounds for Lp-samplers. Given a stream of updates (additions and subtraction) to the coordinates of an underlying vector x \in R^n, a perfect Lp sampler outputs the i-th coordinate with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Hossein Jowhari , Mert Sağlam , Gábor Tardos

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

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

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

Two prevalent models in the data stream literature are the insertion-only and turnstile models. Unfortunately, many important streaming problems require a $\Theta(\log(n))$ multiplicative factor more space for turnstile streams than for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff

We consider a basic problem in the general data streaming model, namely, to estimate a vector $f \in \Z^n$ that is arbitrarily updated (i.e., incremented or decremented) coordinate-wise. The estimate $\hat{f} \in \Z^n$ must satisfy…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Sumit Ganguly
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