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We study the maximum constraint satisfaction problem, Max-CSP, in the streaming setting. Given $n$ variables, the constraints arrive sequentially in an arbitrary order, with each constraint involving only a small subset of the variables.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante

In this paper, we study streaming algorithms that minimize the number of changes made to their internal state (i.e., memory contents). While the design of streaming algorithms typically focuses on minimizing space and update time, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

We present streaming algorithms for the graph $k$-matching problem in both the insert-only and dynamic models. Our algorithms, with space complexity matching the best upper bounds, have optimal or near-optimal update time, significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Qian Li , Ge Xia

Several algorithms with an approximation guarantee of $O(\log n)$ are known for the Set Cover problem, where $n$ is the number of elements. We study a generalization of the Set Cover problem, called the Partition Set Cover problem. Here,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Tanmay Inamdar , Kasturi Varadarajan

A streaming algorithm to compute the spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) of stationary random processes is presented. As new data becomes available, an incremental update of the truncated eigenbasis of the estimated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-14 Oliver T. Schmidt , Aaron Towne

Two recent lower bounds on the compressibility of repetitive sequences, $\delta \le \gamma$, have received much attention. It has been shown that a length-$n$ string $S$ over an alphabet of size $\sigma$ can be represented within the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tomasz Kociumaka , Gonzalo Navarro , Francisco Olivares

In earlier work, we showed that it is possible to achieve $O(\log N)$ streaming delay with high probability in a peer-to-peer network, where each peer has as little as four neighbors, while achieving any arbitrary fraction of the maximum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Joohwan Kim , R. Srikant

We give a near-optimal sample-pass trade-off for pure exploration in multi-armed bandits (MABs) via multi-pass streaming algorithms: any streaming algorithm with sublinear memory that uses the optimal sample complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

Cardinality constrained submodular function maximization, which aims to select a subset of size at most $k$ to maximize a monotone submodular utility function, is the key in many data mining and machine learning applications such as data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Junzhou Zhao , Shuo Shang , Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Xiangliang Zhang

While there has been a lot of work on finding frequent itemsets in transaction data streams, none of these solve the problem of finding similar pairs according to standard similarity measures. This paper is a first attempt at dealing with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-13 Andrea Campagna , Rasmus Pagh

In this work, we study the classic submodular maximization problem under knapsack constraints and beyond. We first present an $(7/16-\varepsilon)$-approximate algorithm for single knapsack constraint, which requires…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Wenxin Li

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

We design a deterministic algorithm for the $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate maximum matching problem. Our primary result demonstrates that this problem can be solved in $O(\epsilon^{-6})$ semi-streaming passes, improving upon the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Slobodan Mitrović , Anish Mukherjee , Piotr Sankowski , Wen-Horng Sheu

Two prevalent models in the data stream literature are the insertion-only and turnstile models. Unfortunately, many important streaming problems require a $\Theta(\log(n))$ multiplicative factor more space for turnstile streams than for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff

We study the classical problem of moment estimation of an underlying vector whose $n$ coordinates are implicitly defined through a series of updates in a data stream. We show that if the updates to the vector arrive in the random-order…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Given a set of vectors $X = \{ x_1,\dots, x_n \} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, the Euclidean max-cut problem asks to partition the vectors into two parts so as to maximize the sum of Euclidean distances which cross the partition. We design new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Nicolas Menand , Erik Waingarten

We introduce the straggler identification problem, in which an algorithm must determine the identities of the remaining members of a set after it has had a large number of insertion and deletion operations performed on it, and now has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-10 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

In a streaming constraint satisfaction problem (streaming CSP), a $p$-pass algorithm receives the constraints of an instance sequentially, making $p$ passes over the input in a fixed order, with the goal of approximating the maximum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yumou Fei , Dor Minzer , Shuo Wang

We study the space complexity of estimating the diameter of a subset of points in an arbitrary metric space in the dynamic (turnstile) streaming model. The input is given as a stream of updates to a frequency vector $x \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Krish Singal , Erik Waingarten

We optimally resolve the space complexity for the problem of finding an $\alpha$-approximate minimum vertex cover ($\alpha$MVC) in dynamic graph streams. We give a randomised algorithm for $\alpha$MVC which uses $O(n^2/\alpha^2)$ bits of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Kheeran K. Naidu , Vihan Shah