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The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

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We consider the problem of estimating the number of distinct elements in a large data set (or, equivalently, the support size of the distribution induced by the data set) from a random sample of its elements. The problem occurs in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Talya Eden , Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal , Tal Wagner

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan

Learning from data in the presence of outliers is a fundamental problem in statistics. Until recently, no computationally efficient algorithms were known to compute the mean of a high dimensional distribution under natural assumptions in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Sidhanth Mohanty , Morris Yau

Learning from data in the presence of outliers is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this work, we study robust statistics in the presence of overwhelming outliers for the fundamental problem of subspace recovery. Given a dataset where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Prasad Raghavendra , Morris Yau

Finding dense subnetworks, with density based on edges or more complex structures, such as subgraphs or $k$-cliques, is a fundamental algorithmic problem with many applications. While the problem has been studied extensively in static…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin , Aristides Gionis

Identifying heavy hitters and estimating the frequencies of flows are fundamental tasks in various network domains. Existing approaches to this challenge can broadly be categorized into two groups, hashing-based and competing-counter-based.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Rana Shahout , Michael Mitzenmacher

We study adversarially robust algorithms for insertion-deletion (turnstile) streams, where future updates may depend on past algorithm outputs. While robust algorithms exist for insertion-only streams with only a polylogarithmic overhead in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

We give the first optimal bounds for returning the $\ell_1$-heavy hitters in a data stream of insertions, together with their approximate frequencies, closing a long line of work on this problem. For a stream of $m$ items in $\{1, 2, \dots,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Palash Dey , David P. Woodruff

We consider a basic problem in the general data streaming model, namely, to estimate a vector $f \in \Z^n$ that is arbitrarily updated (i.e., incremented or decremented) coordinate-wise. The estimate $\hat{f} \in \Z^n$ must satisfy…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Sumit Ganguly

Given a stream $p_1, \ldots, p_m$ of items from a universe $\mathcal{U}$, which, without loss of generality we identify with the set of integers $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$, we consider the problem of returning all $\ell_2$-heavy hitters, i.e.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Vladimir Braverman , Stephen R. Chestnut , Nikita Ivkin , David P. Woodruff

Frequency estimation of elements is an important task for summarizing data streams and machine learning applications. The problem is often addressed by using streaming algorithms with sublinear space data structures. These algorithms allow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Nikita Seleznev , Senthil Kumar , C. Bayan Bruss

In large-scale applications including medical imaging, collocation differential equation solvers, and estimation with differential privacy, the underlying linear inverse problem can be reformulated as a streaming problem. In theory, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Nathaniel Pritchard , Vivak Patel

We consider the online sparse linear regression problem, which is the problem of sequentially making predictions observing only a limited number of features in each round, to minimize regret with respect to the best sparse linear regressor,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Dean Foster , Satyen Kale , Howard Karloff

We investigate deterministic and randomized streaming algorithms for word problems in finitely generated groups and semigroups. For this we introduce the notion of a distinguisher: a randomized streaming algorithm that processes two input…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Markus Lohrey , Lukas Lück , Alexander Thumm , Julio Xochitemol

Finding heavy-elements (heavy-hitters) in streaming data is one of the central, and well-understood tasks. Despite the importance of this problem, when considering the sliding windows model of streaming (where elements eventually expire)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Vladimir Braverman , Ran Gelles , Rafail Ostrovsky

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

We study the classic set cover problem from the perspective of sub-linear algorithms. Given access to a collection of $m$ sets over $n$ elements in the query model, we show that sub-linear algorithms derived from existing techniques have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Piotr Indyk , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian , Anak Yodpinyanee

A fundamental question in streaming complexity is whether every space-efficient turnstile algorithm is implicitly a linear sketch. The landmark work of Li, Nguyen, and Woodruff [LNW14] established an equivalence between the two, but their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Cheng Jiang , Yinchen Liu , Huacheng Yu

This paper presents significantly improved deterministic algorithms for some of the key problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms, including network decomposition, hitting sets, and spanners. As the main ingredient in these…

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