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We consider streaming algorithms for approximating a product of input probabilities up to multiplicative error of $1-\epsilon$. It is shown that every randomized streaming algorithm for this problem needs space $\Omega(\log n + \log b -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Markus Lohrey , Leon Rische , Louisa Seelbach Benkner , Julio Xochitemol

Low-rank approximation in data streams is a fundamental and significant task in computing science, machine learning and statistics. Multiple streaming algorithms have emerged over years and most of them are inspired by randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Cuiyu Liu , Chuanfu Xiao , Mingshuo Ding , Chao Yang

Many streaming algorithms provide only a high-probability relative approximation. These two relaxations, of allowing approximation and randomization, seem necessary -- for many streaming problems, both relaxations must be employed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Vladimir Braverman , Robert Krauthgamer , Aditya Krishnan , Shay Sapir

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 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 2018-11-28 Michael Kapralov , Dmitry Krachun

We consider the \textsf{Unit Interval Selection} problem in the one-pass random order streaming model. Here, an algorithm is presented a sequence of $n$ unit-length intervals on the line that arrive in uniform random order, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Adithya Diddapur , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

We present a new approach for finding matchings in dense graphs by building on Szemer\'edi's celebrated Regularity Lemma. This allows us to obtain non-trivial albeit slight improvements over longstanding bounds for matchings in streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm must process any $n$-vertex graph by making one or few passes over a stream of its edges, use $O(n \cdot \text{polylog }n)$ words of space, and at the end of the last pass, output a solution to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Sepehr Assadi , Gary Hoppenworth , Janani Sundaresan

Summary statistics such as the mean and variance are easily maintained for large, distributed data streams, but order statistics (i.e., sample quantiles) can only be approximately summarized. There is extensive literature on maintaining…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Charles Masson , Jee E. Rim , Homin K. Lee

We give an $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$-space single-pass $0.483$-approximation streaming algorithm for estimating the maximum directed cut size (Max-DICUT) in a directed graph on $n$ vertices. This improves over an $O(\log n)$-space $4/9 <…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Raghuvansh R. Saxena , Noah G. Singer , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a maximum matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a random order. In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm receives a stream of edges and it is allowed to have a memory of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tung Mai , Anup Rao , Ryan A. Rossi

Estimating the number of subgraphs in data streams is a fundamental problem that has received great attention in the past decade. In this paper, we give improved streaming algorithms for approximately counting the number of occurrences of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Pan Peng

Quantile summaries provide a scalable way to estimate the distribution of individual attributes in large datasets that are often distributed across multiple machines or generated by sensor networks. ReqSketch (arXiv:2004.01668) is currently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tomáš Domes , Pavel Veselý

Problems involving the efficient arrangement of simple objects, as captured by bin packing and makespan scheduling, are fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. These are well understood in the traditional online and offline cases,…

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

A $(1 \pm \epsilon)$-sparsifier of a hypergraph $G(V,E)$ is a (weighted) subgraph that preserves the value of every cut to within a $(1 \pm \epsilon)$-factor. It is known that every hypergraph with $n$ vertices admits a $(1 \pm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan

The metric sketching problem is defined as follows. Given a metric on $n$ points, and $\epsilon>0$, we wish to produce a small size data structure (sketch) that, given any pair of point indices, recovers the distance between the points up…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We adapt a well known streaming algorithm for approximating item frequencies to the matrix sketching setting. The algorithm receives the rows of a large matrix $A \in \R^{n \times m}$ one after the other in a streaming fashion. It maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Edo Liberty

We study the maximum matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming setting. In this problem, the edges of an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph $G=(V, E)$ arrive in a stream one by one and in a random order. The goal is to have a single pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad

We investigate the space complexity of two graph streaming problems: Max-Cut and its quantum analogue, Quantum Max-Cut. Previous work by Kapralov and Krachun [STOC `19] resolved the classical complexity of the \emph{classical} problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 John Kallaugher , Ojas Parekh

We study the problem of constructing a linear sketch of minimum dimension that allows approximation of a given real-valued function $f \colon \mathbb{F}_2^n \rightarrow \mathbb R$ with small expected squared error. We develop a general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Samson Zhou