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We initiate a broad study of classical problems in the streaming model with insertions and deletions in the setting where we allow the approximation factor $\alpha$ to be much larger than $1$. Such algorithms can use significantly less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Yuheng Zhang

We consider channel coding for Gaussian channels with the recently introduced mean and variance cost constraints. Through matching converse and achievability bounds, we characterize the optimal first- and second-order performance. The main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Adeel Mahmood , Aaron B. Wagner

We propose a randomized second-order method for optimization known as the Newton Sketch: it is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a randomly projected or sub-sampled Hessian. For self-concordant functions, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

We study the streaming complexity of $k$-counter approximate counting. In the $k$-counter approximate counting problem, we are given an input string in $[k]^n$, and we are required to approximate the number of each $j$'s ($j\in[k]$) in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yichuan Wang

We study the problem of sketching an input graph, so that given the sketch, one can estimate the weight of any cut in the graph within factor $1+\epsilon$. We present lower and upper bounds on the size of a randomized sketch, focusing on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Alexandr Andoni , Robert Krauthgamer , David P. Woodruff

Elastic-Sketch is a hash-based data structure for counting item's appearances in a data stream, and it has been empirically shown to achieve a better memory-accuracy trade-off compared to classical methods. This algorithm combines a heavy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Younes Ben Mazziane , Vinay Kumar B. R. , Othmane Marfoq

We introduce a novel technique for ``lifting'' dimension lower bounds for linear sketches in the real-valued setting to dimension lower bounds for linear sketches with polynomially-bounded integer entries when the input is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

We consider sketching algorithms which first quickly compress data by multiplication with a random sketch matrix, and then apply the sketch to quickly solve an optimization problem, e.g., low rank approximation. In the learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Simin Liu , Tianrui Liu , Ali Vakilian , Yulin Wan , David P. Woodruff

We consider distributed optimization methods for problems where forming the Hessian is computationally challenging and communication is a significant bottleneck. We leverage randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

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

Space-efficient streaming estimation of quantiles in massive datasets is a fundamental problem with numerous applications in data monitoring and analysis. While theoretical research led to optimal algorithms, such as the Greenwald-Khanna…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Aleksander Łukasiewicz , Jakub Tětek , Pavel Veselý

Sketching is a randomized dimensionality-reduction method that aims to preserve relevant information in large-scale datasets. Count sketch is a simple popular sketch which uses a randomized hash function to achieve compression. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Yang Shi , Animashree Anandkumar

Estimating quantiles is one of the foundational problems of data sketching. Given $n$ elements $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ from some universe of size $U$ arriving in a data stream, a quantile sketch estimates the rank of any element with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Meghal Gupta , Mihir Singhal , Hongxun Wu

To get estimators that work within a certain error bound with high probability, a common strategy is to design one that works with constant probability, and then boost the probability using independent repetitions. Important examples of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Anders Aamand , Debarati Das , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Peter M. R. Rasmussen , Mikkel Thorup

Estimating the frequency of items on the high-volume, fast data stream has been extensively studied in many areas, such as database and network measurement. Traditional sketches provide only coarse estimates under strict memory constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xinyu Yuan , Yan Qiao , Meng Li , Zhenchun Wei , Cuiying Feng , Zonghui Wang , Wenzhi Chen

Given a persistence diagram with $n$ points, we give an algorithm that produces a sequence of $n$ persistence diagrams converging in bottleneck distance to the input diagram, the $i$th of which has $i$ distinct (weighted) points and is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Donald R. Sheehy , Siddharth Sheth

In this paper, we take into consideration quantile estimation in data stream models, where every item in the data stream is a key-value pair. Researchers sometimes aim to estimate per-key quantiles (i.e. quantile estimation for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiarui Guo , Qiushi Lyu , Yuhan Wu , Haoyu Li , Zhaoqian Yao , Yuqi Dong , Xiaolin Wang , Bin Cui , Tong Yang

Scalable algorithms to solve optimization and regression tasks even approximately, are needed to work with large datasets. In this paper we study efficient techniques from matrix sketching to solve a variety of convex constrained regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Graham Cormode , Charlie Dickens

Count-Min Sketch is a widely adopted algorithm for approximate event counting in large scale processing. However, the original version of the Count-Min-Sketch (CMS) suffers of some deficiences, especially if one is interested by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Guillaume Pitel , Geoffroy Fouquier

Sketching and streaming algorithms are in the forefront of current research directions for cut problems in graphs. In the streaming model, we show that $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation for Max-Cut must use $n^{1-O(\epsilon)}$ space; moreover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dmitry Kogan , Robert Krauthgamer