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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) is a menace for service provider and prominent issue in network security. Defeating or defending the DDoS is a prime challenge. DDoS make a service unavailable for a certain time. This phenomenon harms…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ripon Patgiri , Sabuzima Nayak , Samir Kumar Borgohain

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

In this paper, we address the problem of sampling from a set and reconstructing a set stored as a Bloom filter. To the best of our knowledge our work is the first to address this question. We introduce a novel hierarchical data structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Neha Sengupta , Amitabha Bagchi , Srikanta Bedathur , Maya Ramanath

While existing social networking services tend to connect people who know each other, people show a desire to also connect to yet unknown people in physical proximity. Existing research shows that people tend to connect to similar people.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Felix Beierle

In high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data, it is not always true that closeness of two objects reflects a hidden cluster structure. We point out the important fact that it is not the closeness, but the "values" of distance that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Yoshikazu Terada

Some transformer attention heads appear to function as membership testers, dedicating themselves to answering the question "has this token appeared before in the context?" We identify these heads across four language models (GPT-2 small,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Peter Balogh

Dynamic Bloom filters (DBF) were proposed by Guo et. al. in 2010 to tackle the situation where the size of the set to be stored compactly is not known in advance or can change during the course of the application. We propose a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Sidharth Negi , Ameya Dubey , Amitabha Bagchi , Manish Yadav , Nishant Yadav , Jeetu Raj

Recent work suggests improving the performance of Bloom filter by incorporating a machine learning model as a binary classifier. However, such learned Bloom filter does not take full advantage of the predicted probability scores. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Zhenwei Dai , Anshumali Shrivastava

Range filters allow checking whether a query range intersects a given set of keys with a chance of returning a false positive answer, thus generalising the functionality of Bloom filters from point to range queries. Existing practical range…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Marco Costa , Paolo Ferragina , Giorgio Vinciguerra

Filters such as Bloom, quotient, and cuckoo filters are fundamental building blocks providing space-efficient approximate set membership testing. However, many applications need to associate small values with keys-functionality that filters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Michael A. Bender , Alex Conway , Martín Farach-Colton , Rob Johnson , Prashant Pandey

Applications involving telecommunication call data records, web pages, online transactions, medical records, stock markets, climate warning systems, etc., necessitate efficient management and processing of such massively exponential amount…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Suman K. Bera , Sourav Dutta , Ankur Narang , Souvik Bhattacherjee

Many high dimensional vector distances tend to a constant. This is typically considered a negative "contrast-loss" phenomenon that hinders clustering and other machine learning techniques. We reinterpret "contrast-loss" as a blessing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Jian-Huang Lai , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Modern key-value stores rely heavily on Log-Structured Merge (LSM) trees for write optimization, but this design introduces significant read amplification. Auxiliary structures like Bloom filters help, but impose memory costs that scale…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nicholas Fidalgo , Puyuan Ye

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

The Bloom filter provides fast approximate set membership while using little memory. Engineers often use these filters to avoid slow operations such as disk or network accesses. As an alternative, a cuckoo filter may need less space than a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Thomas Mueller Graf , Daniel Lemire

Filters are ubiquitous in computer science, enabling space-efficient approximate membership testing. Since Bloom filters were introduced in 1970, decades of work improved their space efficiency and performance. Recently, three new paradigms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Diandre Miguel Sabale , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Prashant Pandey

Recent work has suggested enhancing Bloom filters by using a pre-filter, based on applying machine learning to model the data set the Bloom filter is meant to represent. Here we model such learned Bloom filters, clarifying what guarantees…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Michael Mitzenmacher

Bloom filters (BF) are widely used for approximate membership queries over a set of elements. BF variants allow removals, sets of unbounded size or querying a sliding window over an unbounded stream. However, for this last case the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ariel Shtul , Carlos Baquero , Paulo Sérgio Almeida

We present a new algorithm for the approximate near neighbor problem that combines classical ideas from group testing with locality-sensitive hashing (LSH). We reduce the near neighbor search problem to a group testing problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Joshua Engels , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

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