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Networks are fundamental building blocks for representing data, and computations. Remarkable progress in learning in structurally defined (shallow or deep) networks has recently been achieved. Here we introduce evolutionary exploratory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Rise Ooi , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Vìctor Eguìluz , Narsis Kiani , Hector Zenil , David Gomez-Cabrero , Jesper Tegnèr

We introduce the poly-streaming model, a generalization of streaming models of computation in which $k$ processors process $k$ data streams containing a total of $N$ items. The algorithm is allowed $O\left(f(k)\cdot M_1\right)$ space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ahammed Ullah , S. M. Ferdous , Alex Pothen

Stream graphs model highly dynamic networks in which nodes and/or links arrive and/or leave over time. Strongly connected components in stream graphs were defined recently, but no algorithm was provided to compute them. We present here…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Léo Rannou , Clémence Magnien , Matthieu Latapy

We resolve the space complexity of single-pass streaming algorithms for approximating the classic set cover problem. For finding an $\alpha$-approximate set cover (for any $\alpha= o(\sqrt{n})$) using a single-pass streaming algorithm, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

We study learning-augmented streaming algorithms for estimating the value of MAX-CUT in a graph. In the classical streaming model, while a $1/2$-approximation for estimating the value of MAX-CUT can be trivially achieved with $O(1)$ words…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yinhao Dong , Pan Peng , Ali Vakilian

We introduce a new notion of information complexity for multi-pass streaming problems and use it to resolve several important questions in data streams. In the coin problem, one sees a stream of $n$ i.i.d. uniform bits and one would like to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Mark Braverman , Sumegha Garg , Qian Li , Shuo Wang , David P. Woodruff , Jiapeng Zhang

We consider a natural extension of online makespan scheduling on identical parallel machines by introducing scenarios. A scenario is a subset of jobs, and the task of our problem is to find a global assignment of the jobs to machines so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ekin Ergen

Piecewise Linear Approximation (PLA) is a well-established tool to reduce the size of the representation of time series by approximating the series by a sequence of line segments while keeping the error introduced by the approximation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Romaric Duvignau , Vincenzo Gulisano , Marina Papatriantafilou , Vladimir Savic

Wireless Communication Networks based on Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM in short) plays an important role in the field of communications, in which each request can be satisfied by assigning a frequency. To avoid interference, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-14 Joseph Wun-Tat Chan , Francis Y. L. Chin , Xin Han , Ka-Cheong Lam , Hing-Fung Ting , Yong Zhang

A streaming model is one where data items arrive over long period of time, either one item at a time or in bursts. Typical tasks include computing various statistics over a sliding window of some fixed time-horizon. What makes the streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Vladimir Braverman , Rafail Ostrovsky , Carlo Zaniolo

Spatial and temporal resource constraints are critical for both biological and artificial intelligent systems. Here we define differentiable cost terms for breadth, depth, and time within a recurrent convolutional neural network conceived…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Eivinas Butkus , Kedar Garzón Gupta , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

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

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 examine the complexity of the online Dictionary Matching with One Gap Problem (DMOG) which is the following. Preprocess a dictionary $D$ of $d$ patterns, where each pattern contains a special gap symbol that can match any string, so that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Amihood Amir , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Avivit Levy , Seth Pettie , Ely Porat , B. Riva Shalom

The abundance of models of complex networks and the current insufficient validation standards make it difficult to judge which models are strongly supported by data and which are not. We focus here on likelihood maximization methods for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-26 Matus Medo

We study the problem of approximately simulating a $t$-step random walk on a graph where the input edges come from a single-pass stream. The straightforward algorithm using reservoir sampling needs $O(nt)$ words of memory. We show that this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Ce Jin

We study the maximum constraint satisfaction problem, Max-CSP, in the streaming setting. Given $n$ variables, the constraints arrive sequentially in an arbitrary order, with each constraint involving only a small subset of the variables.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante

We introduce and study the problem of computing the similarity self-join in a streaming context (SSSJ), where the input is an unbounded stream of items arriving continuously. The goal is to find all pairs of items in the stream whose…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Aristides Gionis

Solving chance-constrained stochastic optimal control problems is a significant challenge in control. This is because no analytical solutions exist for up to a handful of special cases. A common and computationally efficient approach for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Alexandre Capone , Tim Brüdigam , Sandra Hirche

The conjectured hardness of Boolean matrix-vector multiplication has been used with great success to prove conditional lower bounds for numerous important data structure problems, see Henzinger et al. [STOC'15]. In recent work, Larsen and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Diptarka Chakraborty , Lior Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen