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With the explosion of information stored world-wide,data intensive computing has become a central area of research.Efficient management and processing of this massively exponential amount of data from diverse sources,such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Sourav Dutta , Souvik Bhattacherjee , Ankur Narang

We introduce the Deletable Bloom filter (DlBF) as a new spin on the popular data structure based on compactly encoding the information of where collisions happen when inserting elements. The DlBF design enables false-negative-free deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Christian Esteve Rothenberg , Carlos A. B. Macapuna , Fabio L. Verdi , Mauricio F. Magalhaes

We present a method that uses a Bloom filter transform to preprocess data for machine learning. Each sample is encoded into a compact bit-array representation using hash-based encoding, producing a fixed-length feature space that reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 John Cartmell , Mihaela Cardei , Ionut Cardei

Invertible Bloom Filter (IBF) is a data structure, which employs a small set of hash functions. An IBF allows for an efficient insertion and, with high probability, for an efficient extraction of the data. However, the success probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ivo Kubjas , Vitaly Skachek

Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure for checking elements' membership in a set. Given multiple sets, however, a standard Bloom filter is not sufficient when looking for the items to which an element or a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Francesco Concas , Pengfei Xu , Mohammad A. Hoque , Jiaheng Lu , Sasu Tarkoma

Random access remains a central bottleneck in DNA-based data storage. Existing systems typically retrieve records by PCR enrichment or other multi-step biochemical procedures, which do not naturally support fast, massively parallel,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Faruk Alpay , Levent Sarioglu

A well known drawback of IP-multicast is that it requires per-group state to be stored in the routers. Bloom-filter based source-routed multicast remedies this problem by moving the state from the routers to the packets. However, a fixed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Markku Antikainen , Liang Wang , Dirk Trossen , Arjuna Sathiaseelan

This paper presents a novel method for efficient image retrieval, based on a simple and effective hashing of CNN features and the use of an indexing structure based on Bloom filters. These filters are used as gatekeepers for the database of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Andrea Salvi , Simone Ercoli , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Probabilistic filters are approximate set membership data structures that represent a set of keys in small space, and answer set membership queries without false negative answers, but with a certain allowed false positive probability. Such…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Johanna Elena Schmitz , Jens Zentgraf , Sven Rahmann

Transfer learning can be seen as a data- and compute-efficient alternative to training models from scratch. The emergence of rich model repositories, such as TensorFlow Hub, enables practitioners and researchers to unleash the potential of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Cedric Renggli , Xiaozhe Yao , Luka Kolar , Luka Rimanic , Ana Klimovic , Ce Zhang

We introduce the problem of performing set-difference range queries, where answers to queries are set-theoretic symmetric differences between sets of items in two geometric ranges. We describe a general framework for answering such queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-17 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Joseph A. Simons

Bloom filters are space-efficient probabilistic data structures that are used to test whether an element is a member of a set, and may return false positives. Recently, variations referred to as learned Bloom filters were developed that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Kapil Vaidya , Eric Knorr , Tim Kraska , Michael Mitzenmacher

Bloom filters are data structures used to determine set membership of elements, with applications from string matching to networking and security problems. These structures are favored because of their reduced memory consumption and fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ethan Madison , Zachary Zipper

Named Data Networks provide a clean-slate redesign of the Future Internet for efficient content distribution. Because Internet of Things are expected to compose a significant part of Future Internet, most content will be managed by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Cristina Muñoz , Liang Wang , Eduardo Solana , Jon Crowcroft

There is a plethora of data structures, algorithms, and frameworks dealing with major data-stream problems like estimating the frequency of items, answering set membership, association and multiplicity queries, and several other statistics…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Anes Abdennebi , Kamer Kaya

Set reconciliation protocols typically make two critical assumptions: they are designed for fixed-sized elements and they are optimized for when the difference cardinality, d, is very small. When adapting to variable-sized elements, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Pedro Silva Gomes , Carlos Baquero

We extend the idea of word pieces in natural language models to machine learning tasks on opaque ids. This is achieved by applying hash functions to map each id to multiple hash tokens in a much smaller space, similarly to a Bloom filter.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 John Anderson , Qingqing Huang , Walid Krichene , Steffen Rendle , Li Zhang

A Bloom filter is a widely used data-structure for representing a set $S$ and answering queries of the form "Is $x$ in $S$?". By allowing some false positive answers (saying "yes" when the answer is in fact `no') Bloom filters use space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Mayank Goswami , Rasmus Pagh , Francesco Silvestri , Johan Sivertsen

Bloom filters are used in query processing to perform early data reduction and improve query performance. The optimal query plan may be different when Bloom filters are used, indicating the need for Bloom filter-aware query optimization. To…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Tim Zeyl , Qi Cheng , Reza Pournaghi , Jason Lam , Weicheng Wang , Calvin Wong , Chong Chen , Per-Ake Larson

A filter is a widely used data structure for storing an approximation of a given set $S$ of elements from some universe $U$ (a countable set).It represents a superset $S'\supseteq S$ that is ''close to $S$'' in the sense that for $x\not\in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ioana O. Bercea , Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen , Rasmus Pagh