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Maximizing a submodular function is a fundamental task in machine learning and in this paper we study the deletion robust version of the problem under the classic matroids constraint. Here the goal is to extract a small size summary of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We study the problem of solving semidefinite programs (SDP) in the streaming model. Specifically, $m$ constraint matrices and a target matrix $C$, all of size $n\times n$ together with a vector $b\in \mathbb{R}^m$ are streamed to us…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhao Song , Mingquan Ye , Lichen Zhang

We study high-dimensional robust statistics tasks in the streaming model. A recent line of work obtained computationally efficient algorithms for a range of high-dimensional robust estimation tasks. Unfortunately, all previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

We consider streaming algorithms for approximating a product of input probabilities up to multiplicative error of $1-\epsilon$. It is shown that every randomized streaming algorithm for this problem needs space $\Omega(\log n + \log b -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Markus Lohrey , Leon Rische , Louisa Seelbach Benkner , Julio Xochitemol

In this work, we consider robust submodular maximization with matroid constraints. We give an efficient bi-criteria approximation algorithm that outputs a small family of feasible sets whose union has (nearly) optimal objective value. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Sebastian Pokutta , Mohit Singh , Alfredo Torrico

We study the online submodular maximization problem with free disposal under a matroid constraint. Elements from some ground set arrive one by one in rounds, and the algorithm maintains a feasible set that is independent in the underlying…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-26 T-H. Hubert Chan , Zhiyi Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Ning Kang , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We consider the problem of approximating a maximum weighted matching, when the edges of an underlying weighted graph $G(V,E)$ are revealed in a streaming fashion. We analyze a variant of the previously best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Elena Grigorescu , Morteza Monemizadeh , Samson Zhou

The problem of selecting a small-size representative summary of a large dataset is a cornerstone of machine learning, optimization and data science. Motivated by applications to recommendation systems and other scenarios with query-limited…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Samson Zhou

We present combinatorial and parallelizable algorithms for maximization of a submodular function, not necessarily monotone, with respect to a size constraint. We improve the best approximation factor achieved by an algorithm that has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yixin Chen , Alan Kuhnle

In recent years, data streaming has gained prominence due to advances in technologies that enable many applications to generate continuous flows of data. This increases the need to develop algorithms that are able to efficiently process…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vaneet Aggarwal , Shankar Krishnan

A semi-streaming algorithm in dynamic graph streams processes any $n$-vertex graph by making one or multiple passes over a stream of insertions and deletions to edges of the graph and using $O(n \cdot \mbox{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan

We present a sparse analogue to stochastic gradient descent that is guaranteed to perform well under similar conditions to the lasso. In the linear regression setup with irrepresentable noise features, our algorithm recovers the support set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Jacob Steinhardt , Stefan Wager , Percy Liang

In this paper, we study streaming and online algorithms in the context of randomness in the input. For several problems, a random order of the input sequence---as opposed to the worst-case order---appears to be a necessary evil in order to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Paritosh Garg , Sagar Kale , Lars Rohwedder , Ola Svensson

The seminal work of Ahn, Guha, and McGregor in 2012 introduced the graph sketching technique and used it to present the first streaming algorithms for various graph problems over dynamic streams with both insertions and deletions of edges.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sepehr Assadi , Gillat Kol , Zhijun Zhang

The problem of non-monotone $k$-submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint ($\kSMK$) over the ground set size $n$ has been raised in many applications in machine learning, such as data summarization, information propagation, etc.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Dung T. K. Ha , Canh V. Pham , Tan D. Tran , Huan X. Hoang

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

In this paper, we develop fast algorithms for two stochastic submodular maximization problems. We start with the well-studied adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a cardinality constraint. We develop the first linear-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Shaojie Tang

Many real-world applications pose challenges in incorporating fairness constraints into the $k$-center clustering problem, where the dataset consists of $m$ demographic groups, each with a specified upper bound on the number of centers to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Longkun Guo , Zeyu Lin , Chaoqi Jia , Chao Chen

We provide the first streaming algorithm for computing a provable approximation to the $k$-means of sparse Big data. Here, sparse Big Data is a set of $n$ vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where each vector has $O(1)$ non-zeroes entries, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Artem Barger , Dan Feldman

In the maximum coverage problem we are given $d$ subsets from a universe $[n]$, and the goal is to output $k$ subsets such that their union covers the largest possible number of distinct items. We present the first algorithm for maximum…

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