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We investigate one of the most basic problems in streaming algorithms: approximating the number of elements in the stream. In 1978, Morris famously gave a randomized algorithm achieving a constant-factor approximation error for streams of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ofer Grossman , Meghal Gupta , Mark Sellke

We consider low-space algorithms for the classic Element Distinctness problem: given an array of $n$ input integers with $O(\log n)$ bit-length, decide whether or not all elements are pairwise distinct. Beame, Clifford, and Machmouchi [FOCS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lijie Chen , Ce Jin , R. Ryan Williams , Hongxun Wu

We present a deterministic $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum matching algorithm in $\mathsf{poly} 1/\varepsilon$ passes in the semi-streaming model, solving the long-standing open problem of breaking the exponential barrier in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Manuela Fischer , Slobodan Mitrović , Jara Uitto

We consider the streaming complexity of a fundamental task in approximate pattern matching: the $k$-mismatch problem. It asks to compute Hamming distances between a pattern of length $n$ and all length-$n$ substrings of a text for which the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Raphaël Clifford , Tomasz Kociumaka , Ely Porat

Given a dataset of $n$ user-contributed strings, each of length at most $\ell$, a key problem is how to identify all frequent substrings while preserving each user's privacy. Recent work by Bernardini et al. (PODS'25) introduced a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Peaker Guo , Rayne Holland , Hao Wu

We revisit the problem of estimating the profile (also known as the rarity) in the data stream model. Given a sequence of $m$ elements from a universe of size $n$, its profile is a vector $\phi$ whose $i$-th entry $\phi_i$ represents the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , David P. Woodruff

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

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

The streaming model of computation is a popular approach for working with large-scale data. In this setting, there is a stream of items and the goal is to compute the desired quantities (usually data statistics) while making a single pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Andres Munoz Medina , Vahab Mirrokni , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Peilin Zhong

Space efficient algorithms play a central role in dealing with large amount of data. In such settings, one would like to analyse the large data using small amount of "working space". One of the key steps in many algorithms for analysing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Anup Bhattacharya , Davis Issac , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

We resolve the space complexity of single-pass streaming algorithms for approximating the classic set cover problem. For finding an $\alpha$-approximate set cover (for any $\alpha= o(\sqrt{n})$) using a single-pass streaming algorithm, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

We consider maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint or a knapsack constraint in the streaming setting. In particular, the elements arrive sequentially and at any point of time, the algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura

We present a novel approach for the problem of frequency estimation in data streams that is based on optimization and machine learning. Contrary to state-of-the-art streaming frequency estimation algorithms, which heavily rely on random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis

We revisit the MaxSAT problem in the data stream model. In this problem, the stream consists of $m$ clauses that are disjunctions of literals drawn from $n$ Boolean variables. The objective is to find an assignment to the variables that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Hoa T. Vu

A streaming algorithm is adversarially robust if it is guaranteed to perform correctly even in the presence of an adaptive adversary. Recently, several sophisticated frameworks for robustification of classical streaming algorithms have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Talya Eden , Krzysztof Onak

Frequency estimation is one of the most fundamental problems in streaming algorithms. Given a stream $S$ of elements from some universe $U=\{1 \ldots n\}$, the goal is to compute, in a single pass, a short sketch of $S$ so that for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , David P. Woodruff

The efficient estimation of frequency moments of a data stream in one-pass using limited space and time per item is one of the most fundamental problem in data stream processing. An especially important estimation is to find the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Gokarna Sharma , Costas Busch , Srikanta Tirthapura

We revisit the classic basic counting problem in the distributed streaming model that was studied by Gibbons and Tirthapura (GT). In the solution for maintaining an $(\epsilon,\delta)$-estimate, as what GT's method does, we make the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Bojian Xu

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

Given a dataset of points in a metric space and an integer $k$, a diversity maximization problem requires determining a subset of $k$ points maximizing some diversity objective measure, e.g., the minimum or the average distance between two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal