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Suppose we wish to estimate $\#H$, the number of copies of some small graph $H$ in a large streaming graph $G$. There are many algorithms for this task when $H$ is a triangle, but just a few that apply to arbitrary $H$. Here we focus on one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Shirin Handjani , Douglas Jungreis , Mark Tiefenbruck

We consider the problem of estimating the value of max cut in a graph in the streaming model of computation. At one extreme, there is a trivial $2$-approximation for this problem that uses only $O(\log n)$ space, namely, count the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Madhu Sudan

Clique counts reveal important properties about the structure of massive graphs, especially social networks. The simple setting of just 3-cliques (triangles) has received much attention from the research community. For larger cliques (even,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Shweta Jain , C. Seshadhri

The past decade has witnessed many interesting algorithms for maintaining statistics over a data stream. This paper initiates a theoretical study of algorithms for monitoring distributed data streams over a time-based sliding window (which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Ho-Leung Chan , Tak-Wah Lam , Lap-Kei Lee , Hing-Fung Ting

Triangle counting is a fundamental building block in graph algorithms. In this paper, we propose a block-based triangle counting algorithm to reduce data movement during both sequential and parallel execution. Our block-based formulation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Abdurrahman Yaşar , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Jonathan Berry , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

The geometric congruence problem is a fundamental building block in many computer vision and image recognition tasks. This problem considers the decision task of whether two point sets are congruent under translation and rotation. A related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yen-Cheng Chang , Tsun Ming Cheung , Meng-Tsung Tsai , Ting-An Wu

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

We study four-cycle counting in arbitrary order graph streams. We present a 3-pass algorithm for $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximating the number of four-cycles using $\widetilde{O}(m/\sqrt{T})$ space, where $m$ is the number of edges and $T$ the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sebastian Lüderssen , Stefan Neumann , Pan Peng

We study streaming algorithms for Correlation Clustering. Given a graph as an arbitrary-order stream of edges, with each edge labeled as positive or negative, the goal is to partition the vertices into disjoint clusters, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinhao Dong , Shan Jiang , Shi Li , Pan Peng

Recently, considerable efforts have been devoted to approximately computing the global and local (i.e., incident to each node) triangle counts of a large graph stream represented as a sequence of edges. Existing approximate triangle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pinghui Wang , Peng Jia , Yiyan Qi , Yu Sun , Jing Tao , Xiaohong Guan

Space complexity is a critical factor in various computational models, including streaming, parallel/distributed computing, and communication complexity. We study the space complexity of the minimum-cost flow problem, a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jan van den Brand , Zhao Song , Albert Weng

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices, $m$ edges, and an integer $t\ge 1$, a subgraph $(V,E_S)$, $E_S\subseteq E$ is called a $t$-spanner if for any pair of vertices $u,v \in V$, the distance between them in the subgraph is at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Surender Baswana

The random order graph streaming model has received significant attention recently, with problems such as matching size estimation, component counting, and the evaluation of bounded degree constant query testable properties shown to admit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 John Kallaugher , Michael Kapralov , Eric Price

In the semi-streaming model for processing massive graphs, an algorithm makes multiple passes over the edges of a given $n$-vertex graph and is tasked with computing the solution to a problem using $O(n \cdot \text{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sepehr Assadi , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan

We consider the problem of space-efficiently estimating the number of simplices in a hypergraph stream. This is the most natural hypergraph generalization of the highly-studied problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Amit Chakrabarti , Themistoklis Haris

The semi-streaming model is a variant of the streaming model frequently used for the computation of graph problems. It allows the edges of an $n$-node input graph to be read sequentially in $p$ passes using $\tilde{O}(n)$ space. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi-Jun Chang , Martin Farach-Colton , Tsan-Sheng Hsu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

Motivated by the trend to outsource work to commercial cloud computing services, we consider a variation of the streaming paradigm where a streaming algorithm can be assisted by a powerful helper that can provide annotations to the data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Graham Cormode , Michael Mitzenmacher , Justin Thaler

While there are software systems that simplify trajectory streams on the fly, few curve simplification algorithms with quality guarantees fit the streaming requirements. We present streaming algorithms for two such problems under the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang , Le Jiang

Multi-pass streaming algorithm for Maximum Matching have been studied since more than 15 years and various algorithmic results are known today, including $2$-pass streaming algorithms that break the $1/2$-approximation barrier, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Lidiya Khalidah binti Khalil , Christian Konrad

The Hierarchical Clustering (HC) problem consists of building a hierarchy of clusters to represent a given dataset. Motivated by the modern large-scale applications, we study the problem in the \streaming model, in which the memory is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Sepehr Assadi , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Chen Wang