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We introduce Density sketches (DS): a succinct online summary of the data distribution. DS can accurately estimate point wise probability density. Interestingly, DS also provides a capability to sample unseen novel data from the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Aditya Desai , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Sketching and streaming algorithms are in the forefront of current research directions for cut problems in graphs. In the streaming model, we show that $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation for Max-Cut must use $n^{1-O(\epsilon)}$ space; moreover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dmitry Kogan , Robert Krauthgamer

We initiate the study of sub-linear sketching and streaming techniques for estimating the output size of common dictionary compressors such as Lempel-Ziv '77, the run-length Burrows-Wheeler transform, and grammar compression. To this end,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruben Becker , Matteo Canton , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Bojana Kodric , Nicola Prezza

We propose a deep hashing framework for sketch retrieval that, for the first time, works on a multi-million scale human sketch dataset. Leveraging on this large dataset, we explore a few sketch-specific traits that were otherwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Peng Xu , Yongye Huang , Tongtong Yuan , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

We propose a novel network pruning approach by information preserving of pre-trained network weights (filters). Network pruning with the information preserving is formulated as a matrix sketch problem, which is efficiently solved by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Mingbao Lin , Liujuan Cao , Shaojie Li , Qixiang Ye , Yonghong Tian , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian , Rongrong Ji

Modern data stream applications demand memory-efficient solutions for accurately tracking frequent items, such as heavy hitters and heavy changers, under strict resource constraints. Traditional sketches face inherent accuracy-memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zicang Xu , Yuxuan Tian , Yuhan Wu , Tong Yang

We introduce EdgeSketch, a compact graph representation for efficient analysis of massive graph streams. EdgeSketch provides unbiased estimators for key graph properties with controllable variance and supports implementing graph algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jakub Lemiesz , Dingqi Yang , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

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

Sketching is a probabilistic data compression technique that has been largely developed in the computer science community. Numerical operations on big datasets can be intolerably slow; sketching algorithms address this issue by generating a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-04 Daniel Ahfock , William J. Astle , Sylvia Richardson

This paper argues that randomized linear sketching is a natural tool for on-the-fly compression of data matrices that arise from large-scale scientific simulations and data collection. The technical contribution consists in a new algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

Many dynamic applications are built upon large network infrastructures, such as social networks, communication networks, biological networks and the Web. Such applications create data that can be naturally modeled as graph streams, in which…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Peixiang Zhao , Charu C. Aggarwal , Min Wang

The challenge of estimating similarity between sets has been a significant concern in data science, finding diverse applications across various domains. However, previous approaches, such as MinHash, have predominantly centered around…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Fenghao Dong , Yang He , Yutong Liang , Zirui Liu , Yuhan Wu , Peiqing Chen , Tong Yang

Streaming analytics are essential in a large range of applications, including databases, networking, and machine learning. To optimize performance, practitioners are increasingly offloading such analytics to network nodes such as switches.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jonatan Langlet , Peiqing Chen , Michael Mitzenmacher , Ran Ben Basat , Zaoxing Liu , Gianni Antichi

Estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream is well understood when repeated elements are identical. In modern settings, however, observations are high-dimensional and noisy, so repeated instances of the same object are only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Nikos Tsikouras , Constantine Caramanis , Christos Tzamos

A seminal work of [Ahn-Guha-McGregor, PODS'12] showed that one can compute a cut sparsifier of an unweighted undirected graph by taking a near-linear number of linear measurements on the graph. Subsequent works also studied computing other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

Elastic-Sketch is a hash-based data structure for counting item's appearances in a data stream, and it has been empirically shown to achieve a better memory-accuracy trade-off compared to classical methods. This algorithm combines a heavy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Younes Ben Mazziane , Vinay Kumar B. R. , Othmane Marfoq

Graph streams are rapidly evolving sequences of edges that convey continuously changing relationships among entities, playing a crucial role in domains such as networking, finance, and cybersecurity. Their massive scale and high dynamism…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Boyan Wang , Zhuochen Fan , Dayu Wang , Fangcheng Fu , Zeyu Luan , Lei Zou , Qing Li , Tong Yang

Linear sketching algorithms have been widely used for processing large-scale distributed and streaming datasets. Their popularity is largely due to the fact that linear sketches can be naturally composed in the distributed model and be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jiecao Chen , Qin Zhang

In this paper, we take into consideration quantile estimation in data stream models, where every item in the data stream is a key-value pair. Researchers sometimes aim to estimate per-key quantiles (i.e. quantile estimation for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiarui Guo , Qiushi Lyu , Yuhan Wu , Haoyu Li , Zhaoqian Yao , Yuqi Dong , Xiaolin Wang , Bin Cui , Tong Yang

In data stream applications, one of the critical issues is to estimate the frequency of each item in the specific multiset. The multiset means that each item in this set can appear multiple times. The data streams in many applications are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ning Li