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Approximate Membership Query structures (AMQs) rely on randomisation for time- and space-efficiency, while introducing a possibility of false positive and false negative answers. Correctness proofs of such structures involve subtle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Kiran Gopinathan , Ilya Sergey

Filters (such as Bloom Filters) are data structures that speed up network routing and measurement operations by storing a compressed representation of a set. Filters are space efficient, but can make bounded one-sided errors: with tunable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Samuel McCauley , Ely Porat

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

The Bloom filter (BF) is a space efficient randomized data structure particularly suitable to represent a set supporting approximate membership queries. BFs have been extensively used in many applications especially in networking due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Laura Carrea , Alexei Vernitski , Martin Reed

We study the security of Probabilistic Data Structures (PDS) for handling Approximate Membership Queries (AMQ); prominent examples of AMQ-PDS are Bloom and Cuckoo filters. AMQ-PDS are increasingly being deployed in environments where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Mia Filić , Kenneth G. Paterson , Anupama Unnikrishnan , Fernando Virdia

Popular approximate membership query structures such as Bloom filters and cuckoo filters are widely used in databases, security, and networking. These structures represent sets approximately, and support at least two operations - insert and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jim Apple

A Bloom filter is a method for reducing the space (memory) required for representing a set by allowing a small error probability. In this paper we consider a \emph{Sliding Bloom Filter}: a data structure that, given a stream of elements,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Moni Naor , Eylon Yogev

A Bloom filter is a simple data structure supporting membership queries on a set. The standard Bloom filter does not support the delete operation, therefore, many applications use a counting Bloom filter to enable deletion. This paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Denis Kleyko , Abbas Rahimi , Ross W. Gayler , Evgeny Osipov

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

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

Bloom Filter is a probabilistic membership data structure and it is excessively used data structure for membership query. Bloom Filter becomes the predominant data structure in approximate membership filtering. Bloom Filter extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Ripon Patgiri , Sabuzima Nayak , Samir Kumar Borgohain

A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that represents a set $S$ of elements from a larger universe $U$. This efficiency comes with a trade-off, namely, it allows for a small chance of false positives. When you…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hayder Tirmazi

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

Filters are fast, small and approximate set membership data structures. They are often used to filter out expensive accesses to a remote set S for negative queries (that is, a query x not in S). Filters have one-sided errors: on a negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-08 David J. Lee , Samuel McCauley , Shikha Singh , Max Stein

A retrieval data structure for a static function $f:S\rightarrow \{0,1\}^r$ supports queries that return $f(x)$ for any $x \in S$. Retrieval data structures can be used to implement a static approximate membership query data structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Peter C. Dillinger , Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Peter Sanders , Stefan Walzer

This paper studies the \emph{$\varepsilon$-approximate range emptiness} problem, where the task is to represent a set $S$ of $n$ points from $\{0,\ldots,U-1\}$ and answer emptiness queries of the form "$[a ; b]\cap S \neq \emptyset$ ?" with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Mayank Goswami , Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen , Rasmus Pagh

These days, Key-Value Stores are widely used for scalable data storage. In this environment, Bloom filter (BF) serves as an efficient probabilistic data structure for representing sets of keys. They allow for set membership queries with no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Paul Walther , Wejdene Mansour , Johann Maximilian Zollner , Martin Werner

A Bloom Filter is a probabilistic data structure designed to check, rapidly and memory-efficiently, whether an element is present in a set. It has been vastly used in various computing areas and several variants, allowing deletions, dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ana Rodrigues , Ariel Shtul , Carlos Baquero , Paulo Sérgio Almeida

Bloom filter is a compact memory-efficient probabilistic data structure supporting membership testing, i.e., to check whether an element is in a given set. However, as Bloom filter maps each element with uniformly random hash functions, few…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Rongbiao Xie , Meng Li , Zheyu Miao , Rong Gu , He Huang , Haipeng Dai , Guihai Chen

Bloom Filter is an important probabilistic data structure to reduce memory consumption for membership filters. It is applied in diverse domains such as Computer Networking, Network Security and Privacy, IoT, Edge Computing, Cloud Computing,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sabuzima Nayak , Ripon Patgiri
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