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The convex hull is a fundamental geometrical structure for many applications where groups of points must be enclosed or represented by a convex polygon. Although efficient sequential convex hull algorithms exist, and are constantly being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alan Keith , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro

Convex hulls are a fundamental geometric tool used in a number of algorithms. A famous paper by Akl and Toussaint in 1978 described a way to reduce the number of points involved in the computation, which is since known as the Akl-Toussaint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Jean Souviron

In the recent years, the scale of graph datasets has increased to such a degree that a single machine is not capable of efficiently processing large graphs. Thereby, efficient graph partitioning is necessary for those large graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Md Anwarul kaium Patwary , Saurabh Garg , Byeong Kang

This paper presents a practical GPU-accelerated convex hull algorithm and a novel Sorting-based Preprocessing Approach (SPA) for planar point sets. The proposed algorithm consists of two stages: (1) two rounds of preprocessing performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Gang Mei

We study high-dimensional robust statistics tasks in the streaming model. A recent line of work obtained computationally efficient algorithms for a range of high-dimensional robust estimation tasks. Unfortunately, all previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

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

Data streaming, in which a large dataset is received as a "stream" of updates, is an important model in the study of space-bounded computation. Starting with the work of Le Gall [SPAA `06], it has been known that quantum streaming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 John Kallaugher

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

The convex hull of a data set $P$ is the smallest convex set that contains $P$. In this work, we present a new data structure for convex hull, that allows for efficient dynamic updates. In a dynamic convex hull implementation, the following…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Emil Toftegaard Gæde , Inge Li Gørtz , Ivor van der Hoog , Christoffer Krogh , Eva Rotenberg

In this paper, we focus on lower bounds and algorithms for some basic geometric problems in the one-pass (insertion only) streaming model. The problems considered are grouped into three categories: (i) Klee's measure (ii) Convex body…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Sandeep Sen

Clustering is a fundamental tool for analyzing large data sets. A rich body of work has been devoted to designing data-stream algorithms for the relevant optimization problems such as $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kook Jin Ahn , Graham Cormode , Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

Computationally efficient and automated generation of convex hulls is desirable for high throughput materials discovery of thermodynamically stable multi-species crystal structures. A convex hull genetic algorithm is proposed that uses…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-23 Scott Donaldson , Robert A. Lawrence , Matt I. J. Probert

Problems involving the efficient arrangement of simple objects, as captured by bin packing and makespan scheduling, are fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. These are well understood in the traditional online and offline cases,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Graham Cormode , Pavel Veselý

Many existing algorithms for streaming geometric data analysis have been plagued by exponential dependencies in the space complexity, which are undesirable for processing high-dimensional data sets. In particular, once $d\geq\log n$, there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-28 David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

Emerging applications of machine learning in numerous areas involve continuous gathering of and learning from streams of data. Real-time incorporation of streaming data into the learned models is essential for improved inference in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Matthew Nokleby , Haroon Raja , Waheed U. Bajwa

Finding the coordinate-wise maxima and the convex hull of a planar point set are probably the most classic problems in computational geometry. We consider these problems in the self-improving setting. Here, we have $n$ distributions…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Wolfgang Mulzer , C. Seshadhri

We introduce a novel algorithm to perform graph clustering in the edge streaming setting. In this model, the graph is presented as a sequence of edges that can be processed strictly once. Our streaming algorithm has an extremely low memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

We analyze the correctness of an O(n log n) time divide-and-conquer algorithm for the convex hull problem when each input point is a location determined by a normal distribution. We show that the algorithm finds the convex hull of such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-08 F. Betul Atalay , Sorelle A. Friedler , Dianna Xu

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

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