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Quantiles, such as the median or percentiles, provide concise and useful information about the distribution of a collection of items, drawn from a totally ordered universe. We study data structures, called quantile summaries, which keep…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Graham Cormode , Pavel Veselý

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

Estimating ranks, quantiles, and distributions over streaming data is a central task in data analysis and monitoring. Given a stream of $n$ items from a data universe equipped with a total order, the task is to compute a sketch (data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Graham Cormode , Zohar Karnin , Edo Liberty , Justin Thaler , Pavel Veselý

The average properties of the well-known Subset Sum Problem can be studied by the means of its randomised version, where we are given a target value $z$, random variables $X_1, \ldots, X_n$, and an error parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, and we…

Storing a counter incremented $N$ times would naively consume $O(\log N)$ bits of memory. In 1978 Morris described the very first streaming algorithm: the "Morris Counter". His algorithm's space bound is a random variable, and it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jelani Nelson , Huacheng Yu

We investigate the approximation for computing the sum $a_1+...+a_n$ with an input of a list of nonnegative elements $a_1,..., a_n$. If all elements are in the range $[0,1]$, there is a randomized algorithm that can compute an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Bin Fu , Wenfeng Li , Zhiyong Peng

As data volume grows extensively, data profiling helps to extract metadata of large-scale data. However, one kind of metadata, order statistics, is difficult to be computed because they are not mergeable or incremental. Thus, the limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Zhiwei Chen , Aoqian Zhang

Recent work of Acharya et al. (NeurIPS 2019) showed how to estimate the entropy of a distribution $\mathcal D$ over an alphabet of size $k$ up to $\pm\epsilon$ additive error by streaming over $(k/\epsilon^3) \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Andrew McGregor , Jelani Nelson , Erik Waingarten

This paper resolves one of the longest standing basic problems in the streaming computational model. Namely, optimal construction of quantile sketches. An $\varepsilon$ approximate quantile sketch receives a stream of items $x_1,\ldots,x_n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Zohar Karnin , Kevin Lang , Edo Liberty

We show that a simple single-pass semi-streaming variant of the Pivot algorithm for Correlation Clustering gives a (3 + {\epsilon})-approximation using O(n/{\epsilon}) words of memory. This is a slight improvement over the recent results of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sayak Chakrabarty , Konstantin Makarychev

This paper considers the problem of maintaining statistic aggregates over the last W elements of a data stream. First, the problem of counting the number of 1's in the last W bits of a binary stream is considered. A lower bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Ran Ben Basat , Gil Einziger , Roy Friedman , Yaron Kassner

We consider the problem of maximizing submodular functions in single-pass streaming and secretaries-with-shortlists models, both with random arrival order. For cardinality constrained monotone functions, Agrawal, Shadravan, and Stein gave a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Paul Liu , Aviad Rubinstein , Jan Vondrak , Junyao Zhao

We consider the complexity for computing the approximate sum $a_1+a_2+...+a_n$ of a sorted list of numbers $a_1\le a_2\le ...\le a_n$. We show an algorithm that computes an $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for the sum of a sorted list of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Bin Fu

Estimating quantiles, like the median or percentiles, is a fundamental task in data mining and data science. A (streaming) quantile summary is a data structure that can process a set S of n elements in a streaming fashion and at the end,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sepehr Assadi , Nirmit Joshi , Milind Prabhu , Vihan Shah

Computing the approximate quantiles or ranks of a stream is a fundamental task in data monitoring. Given a stream of elements $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ and a query $x$, a relative-error quantile estimation algorithm can estimate the rank of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Elena Gribelyuk , Pachara Sawettamalya , Hongxun Wu , Huacheng Yu

In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Or Vardi

We study the sample complexity of online reinforcement learning in the general \hzyrev{non-episodic} setting of nonlinear dynamical systems with continuous state and action spaces. Our analysis accommodates a large class of dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Michael Muehlebach , Zhiyu He , Michael I. Jordan

We present the first efficient averaging sampler that achieves asymptotically optimal randomness complexity and near-optimal sample complexity. For any $\delta < \varepsilon$ and any constant $\alpha > 0$, our sampler uses $m + O(\log (1 /…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiyang Xun , David Zuckerman

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 study memory-bounded algorithms for the $k$-secretary problem. The algorithm of Kleinberg (SODA 2005) achieves an optimal competitive ratio of $1 - O(1/\sqrt{k})$, yet a straightforward implementation requires $\Omega(k)$ memory. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Mingda Qiao , Wei Zhang
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