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We explore a generalization of set reconciliation, where the goal is to reconcile sets of sets. Alice and Bob each have a parent set consisting of $s$ child sets, each containing at most $h$ elements from a universe of size $u$. They want…
Set reconciliation is a fundamental algorithmic problem that arises in many networking, system, and database applications. In this problem, two large sets A and B of objects (bitcoins, files, records, etc.) are stored respectively at two…
Point sets matching method is very important in computer vision, feature extraction, fingerprint matching, motion estimation and so on. This paper proposes a robust point sets matching method. We present an iterative algorithm that is…
In the standard set reconciliation problem, there are two parties $A_1$ and $A_2$, each respectively holding a set of elements $S_1$ and $S_2$. The goal is for both parties to obtain the union $S_1 \cup S_2$. In many distributed computing…
The following game is played on a weighted graph: Alice selects a matching $M$ and Bob selects a number $k$. Alice's payoff is the ratio of the weight of the $k$ heaviest edges of $M$ to the maximum weight of a matching of size at most $k$.…
As users migrate information to cloud storage, many distributed cloud-based services use multiple loosely consistent replicas of user information to avoid the high overhead of more tightly coupled synchronization. Periodically, the…
We investigate the problem of finding reverse nearest neighbors efficiently. Although provably good solutions exist for this problem in low or fixed dimensions, to this date the methods proposed in high dimensions are mostly heuristic. We…
Aligning partially overlapping point sets where there is no prior information about the value of the transformation is a challenging problem in computer vision. To achieve this goal, we first reduce the objective of the robust point…
Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fundamental technique for similarity search and similarity estimation in high-dimensional spaces. The basic idea is that similar objects should produce hash collisions with probability significantly…
Locality-sensitive hashing~[Indyk,Motwani'98] is a classical data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. It allows, after a close to linear time preprocessing of the input dataset, to find an approximately nearest neighbor of…
Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is an effective method to index a set of points such that we can efficiently find the nearest neighbors of a query point. We extend this method to our novel Set-query LSH (SLSH), such that it can find the…
We consider the problem of reconstructing the symmetric difference between similar sets from their representations (sketches) of size linear in the number of differences. Exact solutions to this problem are based on error-correcting coding…
In the set reconciliation (\textsf{SetR}) problem, two parties Alice and Bob, holding sets $\mathsf{A}$ and $\mathsf{B}$, communicate to learn the symmetric difference $\mathsf{A} \Delta \mathsf{B}$. In this work, we study a related but…
We study the one-way two-party communication complexity of Maximum Matching in the semi-robust setting where the edges of a maximum matching are randomly partitioned between Alice and Bob, but all remaining edges of the input graph are…
We initiate the theoretical study of directory reconciliation, a generalization of document exchange, in which Alice and Bob each have different versions of a set of documents that they wish to synchronize. This problem is designed to…
We consider a set reconciliation setting in which two parties hold similar sets which they would like to reconcile In particular, we focus on set reconciliation based on invertible Bloom lookup tables (IBLTs), a probabilistic data structure…
Similarity search in high-dimensional spaces is an important task for many multimedia applications. Due to the notorious curse of dimensionality, approximate nearest neighbor techniques are preferred over exact searching techniques since…
LSH (locality sensitive hashing) had emerged as a powerful technique in nearest-neighbor search in high dimensions [IM98, HIM12]. Given a point set $P$ in a metric space, and given parameters $r$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, the task is to…
Learning from set-structured data is an essential problem with many applications in machine learning and computer vision. This paper focuses on non-parametric and data-independent learning from set-structured data using approximate nearest…
We present a novel approach for relocalization or place recognition, a fundamental problem to be solved in many robotics, automation, and AR applications. Rather than relying on often unstable appearance information, we consider a situation…