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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

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

Recently, there has been increasing interest and progress in improvising the approximation algorithm for well-known NP-Complete problems, particularly the approximation algorithm for the Vertex-Cover problem. Here we have proposed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-20 Deepak Puthal

An ordering constraint satisfaction problem (OCSP) is defined by a family $\mathcal{F}$ of predicates mapping permutations on $\{1,\ldots,k\}$ to $\{0,1\}$. An instance of Max-OCSP($\mathcal{F}$) on $n$ variables consists of a list of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Noah G. Singer , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

A rounding scheme for set cover has served as an important component in design of approximation algorithms for the problem, and there exists an H_s-approximate rounding scheme, where s denotes the maximum subset size, directly implying an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jarosław Byrka , Yongho Shin

Tracking and approximating data matrices in streaming fashion is a fundamental challenge. The problem requires more care and attention when data comes from multiple distributed sites, each receiving a stream of data. This paper considers…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Mina Ghashami , Jeff M. Phillips , Feifei Li

We study streaming algorithms for the maximum directed cut problem. The edges of an $n$-vertex directed graph arrive one by one in an arbitrary order, and the goal is to estimate the value of the maximum directed cut using a single pass and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante , Mohammad Saneian

Coded caching can significantly reduce the communication bandwidth requirement for satisfying users' demands by utilizing the multicasting gain among multiple users. Most existing works assume that the users follow the prescriptions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Yi Ouyang , Ashutosh Nayyar , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider the Maximum-weight Matching (MWM) problem in the streaming sliding window model of computation. In this model, the input consists of a sequence of weighted edges on a given vertex set $V$ of size $n$. The objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Pavel Dvořák , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

In this paper, we give simple optimal lower bounds on the one-way two-party communication complexity of approximate Maximum Matching and Minimum Vertex Cover with deletions. In our model, Alice holds a set of edges and sends a single…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jacques Dark , Christian Konrad

Finding a minimum vertex cover in a network is a fundamental NP-complete graph problem. One way to deal with its computational hardness, is to trade the qualitative performance of an algorithm (allowing non-optimal outputs) for an improved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Thomas Bläsius , Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann

We study streaming algorithms for Correlation Clustering. Given a graph as an arbitrary-order stream of edges, with each edge labeled as positive or negative, the goal is to partition the vertices into disjoint clusters, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinhao Dong , Shan Jiang , Shi Li , Pan Peng

Diversity maximization is a fundamental problem with wide applications in data summarization, web search, and recommender systems. Given a set $X$ of $n$ elements, it asks to select a subset $S$ of $k \ll n$ elements with maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yanhao Wang , Francesco Fabbri , Michael Mathioudakis

Approximating quantiles and distributions over streaming data has been studied for roughly two decades now. Recently, Karnin, Lang, and Liberty proposed the first asymptotically optimal algorithm for doing so. This manuscript complements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Nikita Ivkin , Edo Liberty , Kevin Lang , Zohar Karnin , Vladimir Braverman

We study the problem of minimizing total completion time on parallel machines subject to varying processing capacity. In this paper, we develop an approximation scheme for the problem under the data stream model where the input data is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We initiate the study of the classical Submodular Cover (SC) problem in the data streaming model which we refer to as the Streaming Submodular Cover (SSC). We show that any single pass streaming algorithm using sublinear memory in the size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Abbas Bazzi , Marwa El Halabi , Ilija Bogunovic , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

Recently, considerable research attention has been paid to network embedding, a popular approach to construct feature vectors of vertices. Due to the curse of dimensionality and sparsity in graphical datasets, this approach has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Xi Liu , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Nick Duffield , Rui Chen , Muhe Xie , Xidao Wen

In a streaming constraint satisfaction problem (streaming CSP), a $p$-pass algorithm receives the constraints of an instance sequentially, making $p$ passes over the input in a fixed order, with the goal of approximating the maximum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yumou Fei , Dor Minzer , Shuo Wang

Optimization problems consist of either maximizing or minimizing an objective function. Instead of looking for a maximum solution (resp. minimum solution), one can find a minimum maximal solution (resp. maximum minimal solution). Such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jerome Monnot , Florian Sikora

We study the problem of graph and hypergraph sparsification in insertion-only data streams. The input is a hypergraph $H=(V, E, w)$ with $n$ nodes, $m$ hyperedges, and rank $r$, and the goal is to compute a hypergraph $\widehat{H}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou