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We show that both clustering and subspace embeddings can be performed in the streaming model with the same asymptotic efficiency as in the central/offline setting. For $(k, z)$-clustering in the streaming model, we achieve a number of words…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Liudeng Wang , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

We consider the problem of monotone, submodular maximization over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$. For this problem, we introduce the first deterministic algorithms with linear time complexity; these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alan Kuhnle

Recent progress in (semi-)streaming algorithms for monotone submodular function maximization has led to tight results for a simple cardinality constraint. However, current techniques fail to give a similar understanding for natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Moran Feldman , Paul Liu , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

We derive new time-space tradeoff lower bounds and algorithms for exactly computing statistics of input data, including frequency moments, element distinctness, and order statistics, that are simple to calculate for sorted data. We develop…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Paul Beame , Raphael Clifford , Widad Machmouchi

We explore clustering problems in the streaming sliding window model in both general metric spaces and Euclidean space. We present the first polylogarithmic space $O(1)$-approximation to the metric $k$-median and metric $k$-means problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Vladimir Braverman , Harry Lang , Keith Levin , Morteza Monemizadeh

The semi-streaming model is a variant of the streaming model frequently used for the computation of graph problems. It allows the edges of an $n$-node input graph to be read sequentially in $p$ passes using $\tilde{O}(n)$ space. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi-Jun Chang , Martin Farach-Colton , Tsan-Sheng Hsu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

We study streaming algorithms for the fundamental geometric problem of computing the cost of the Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) on an $n$-point set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. In the streaming model, the points in $X$ can be added and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Xi Chen , Rajesh Jayaram , Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

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

Clustering is an important technique for identifying structural information in large-scale data analysis, where the underlying dataset may be too large to store. In many applications, recent data can provide more accurate information and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-02 David P. Woodruff , Peilin Zhong , Samson Zhou

We consider the problem of estimating the value of max cut in a graph in the streaming model of computation. At one extreme, there is a trivial $2$-approximation for this problem that uses only $O(\log n)$ space, namely, count the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Madhu Sudan

We initiate the study of numerical linear algebra in the sliding window model, where only the most recent $W$ updates in a stream form the underlying data set. We first introduce a unified row-sampling based framework that gives randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Vladimir Braverman , Petros Drineas , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Jalaj Upadhyay , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

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 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

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

Estimating ranks, quantiles, and distributions over streaming data is a central task in data analysis and monitoring. Given a stream of $n$ items from a data universe equipped with a total order, the task is to compute a sketch (data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Graham Cormode , Zohar Karnin , Edo Liberty , Justin Thaler , Pavel Veselý

Computing the approximate quantiles or ranks of a stream is a fundamental task in data monitoring. Given a stream of elements $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ and a query $x$, a relative-error quantile estimation algorithm can estimate the rank of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Elena Gribelyuk , Pachara Sawettamalya , Hongxun Wu , Huacheng Yu

Ordered statistics decoding has been instrumental in addressing decoding failures that persist after normalized min-sum decoding in short low-density parity-check codes. Despite its benefits, the high computational complexity of effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu

For a directed graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and a start vertex $u_{\sf start}$, we wish to (approximately) sample an $L$-step random walk over $G$ starting from $u_{\sf start}$ with minimum space using an algorithm that only makes few passes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Lijie Chen , Gillat Kol , Dmitry Paramonov , Raghuvansh Saxena , Zhao Song , Huacheng Yu

Matrix multiplication is a core operation in numerous applications, yet its exact computation becomes prohibitively expensive as data scales, especially in streaming environments where timeliness is critical. In many real-world scenarios,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Haoming Xian , Qintian Guo , Jun Zhang , Sibo Wang

We consider the unweighted bipartite maximum matching problem in the one-pass turnstile streaming model where the input stream consists of edge insertions and deletions. In the insertion-only model, a one-pass $2$-approximation streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Christian Konrad