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In this paper, we present near-optimal space bounds for Lp-samplers. Given a stream of updates (additions and subtraction) to the coordinates of an underlying vector x \in R^n, a perfect Lp sampler outputs the i-th coordinate with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Hossein Jowhari , Mert Sağlam , Gábor Tardos

Perfect $L_p$ sampling in a stream was introduced by Jayaram and Woodruff (FOCS 2018) as a streaming primitive which, given turnstile updates to a vector $x \in \{-\text{poly}(n), \ldots, \text{poly}(n)\}^n$, outputs an index $i^* \in \{1,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 William Swartworth , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Given a vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ induced by a turnstile stream $S$, a non-negative function $G: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$, a perfect $G$-sampler outputs an index $i$ with probability $\frac{G(x_i)}{\sum_{j\in[n]}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-11 David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

In the distributed monitoring model, a data stream over a universe of size $n$ is distributed over $k$ servers, who must continuously provide certain statistics of the overall dataset, while minimizing communication with a central…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Honghao Lin , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

For any real number $p > 0$, we nearly completely characterize the space complexity of estimating $\|A\|_p^p = \sum_{i=1}^n \sigma_i^p$ for $n \times n$ matrices $A$ in which each row and each column has $O(1)$ non-zero entries and whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yi Li , David P. Woodruff

We study $\ell_p$ sampling and frequency moment estimation in a single-pass insertion-only data stream. For $p \in (0,2)$, we present a nearly space-optimal approximate $\ell_p$ sampler that uses $\widetilde{O}(\log n \log(1/\delta))$ bits…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Honghao Lin , Hoai-An Nguyen , William Swartworth , David P. Woodruff

In the $G$-sampling problem, the goal is to output an index $i$ of a vector $f \in\mathbb{R}^n$, such that for all coordinates $j \in [n]$, \[\textbf{Pr}[i=j] = (1 \pm \epsilon) \frac{G(f_j)}{\sum_{k\in[n]} G(f_k)} + \gamma,\] where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

We study $L_p$ polynomial regression. Given query access to a function $f:[-1,1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, the goal is to find a degree $d$ polynomial $\hat{q}$ such that, for a given parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, $$ \|\hat{q}-f\|_p\le…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Raphael A. Meyer , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

The problem of estimating the pth moment F_p (p nonnegative and real) in data streams is as follows. There is a vector x which starts at 0, and many updates of the form x_i <-- x_i + v come sequentially in a stream. The algorithm also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Daniel M. Kane , Jelani Nelson , David P. Woodruff

We present the first efficient averaging sampler that achieves asymptotically optimal randomness complexity and near-optimal sample complexity. For any $\delta < \varepsilon$ and any constant $\alpha > 0$, our sampler uses $m + O(\log (1 /…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiyang Xun , David Zuckerman

For each $p \in (0,2]$, we present a randomized algorithm that returns an $\epsilon$-approximation of the $p$th frequency moment of a data stream $F_p = \sum_{i = 1}^n \abs{f_i}^p$. The algorithm requires space $O(\epsilon^{-2} \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-21 Sumit Ganguly

Given an $N$-dimensional subspace $X$ of $L_p([0,1])$, we consider the problem of choosing $M$-sampling points which may be used to discretely approximate the $L_p$ norm on the subspace. We are particularly interested in knowing when the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Daniel Freeman , Dorsa Ghoreishi

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 investigate Learning from Label Proportions (LLP), a partial information setting where examples in a training set are grouped into bags, and only aggregate label values in each bag are available. Despite the partial observability, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Robert Busa-Fekete , Travis Dick , Claudio Gentile , Haim Kaplan , Tomer Koren , Uri Stemmer

This paper studies the expected $L_p$-discrepancy ($2 \leq p < \infty$) for stratified sampling schemes under importance sampling. We introduce a parametric family of equivolume partitions $\Omega_{\theta,\sim}$ and leverage recent exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Xiaoda Xu

The generalized smooth condition, $(L_{0},L_{1})$-smoothness, has triggered people's interest since it is more realistic in many optimization problems shown by both empirical and theoretical evidence. Two recent works established the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zijian Liu , Srikanth Jagabathula , Zhengyuan Zhou

We characterize the streaming space complexity of every symmetric norm $l$ (a norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$ invariant under sign-flips and coordinate-permutations), by relating this space complexity to the measure-concentration characteristics of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jaroslaw Blasiok , Vladimir Braverman , Stephen R. Chestnut , Robert Krauthgamer , Lin F. Yang

We revisit one of the classic problems in the data stream literature, namely, that of estimating the frequency moments $F_p$ for $0 < p < 2$ of an underlying $n$-dimensional vector presented as a sequence of additive updates in a stream. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Vladimir Braverman , Emanuele Viola , David Woodruff , Lin F. Yang

One of the oldest problems in the data stream model is to approximate the $p$-th moment $\|\mathcal{X}\|_p^p = \sum_{i=1}^n |\mathcal{X}_i|^p$ of an underlying vector $\mathcal{X} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, which is presented as a sequence of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff

The subspace approximation problem Subspace($k$,$p$) asks for a $k$-dimensional linear subspace that fits a given set of points optimally, where the error for fitting is a generalization of the least squares fit and uses the $\ell_{p}$ norm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Amit Deshpande , Kasturi Varadarajan , Madhur Tulsiani , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi
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