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We consider the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model formalized by Feigenbaum, Kannan, McGregor, Suri, and Zhang that is inspired by giant graphs of today. As our main result, we give a two-pass $(1/2 + 1/16)$-approximation…

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In this paper we introduce and study the \textsc{StreamingCycles} problem, a random order streaming version of the Boolean Hidden Hypermatching problem that has been instrumental in streaming lower bounds over the past decade. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Ashish Chiplunkar , John Kallaugher , Michael Kapralov , Eric Price

The seminal work of Ahn, Guha, and McGregor in 2012 introduced the graph sketching technique and used it to present the first streaming algorithms for various graph problems over dynamic streams with both insertions and deletions of edges.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sepehr Assadi , Gillat Kol , Zhijun Zhang

We initiate the study of the Maximal Matching problem in bounded-deletion graph streams. In this setting, a graph $G$ is revealed as an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions, where the number of insertions is unrestricted but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Sanjeev Khanna , Christian Konrad , Jacques Dark

In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm must process any $n$-vertex graph by making one or few passes over a stream of its edges, use $O(n \cdot \text{polylog }n)$ words of space, and at the end of the last pass, output a solution to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Sepehr Assadi , Gary Hoppenworth , Janani Sundaresan

We present a new approach for finding matchings in dense graphs by building on Szemer\'edi's celebrated Regularity Lemma. This allows us to obtain non-trivial albeit slight improvements over longstanding bounds for matchings in streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

Many streaming algorithms provide only a high-probability relative approximation. These two relaxations, of allowing approximation and randomization, seem necessary -- for many streaming problems, both relaxations must be employed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Vladimir Braverman , Robert Krauthgamer , Aditya Krishnan , Shay Sapir

In this paper, we consider two fundamental cut approximation problems on large graphs. We prove new lower bounds for both problems that are optimal up to logarithmic factors. The first problem is to approximate cuts in balanced directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Cheng , Max Li , Honghao Lin , Zi-Yi Tai , David P. Woodruff , Jason Zhang

We study the problem of partitioning integer sequences in the one-pass data streaming model. Given is an input stream of integers $X \in \{0, 1, \dots, m \}^n$ of length $n$ with maximum element $m$, and a parameter $p$. The goal is to…

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We study the space complexity of sketching cuts and Laplacian quadratic forms of graphs. We show that any data structure which approximately stores the sizes of all cuts in an undirected graph on $n$ vertices up to a $1+\epsilon$ error must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Charles Carlson , Alexandra Kolla , Nikhil Srivastava , Luca Trevisan

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

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We consider the problem of estimating the size of a maximum cut (Max-Cut problem) in a random Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph on $n$ nodes and $\lfloor cn \rfloor$ edges. It is shown in Coppersmith et al. ~\cite{Coppersmith2004} that the size of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-14 David Gamarnik , Quan Li

We establish nearly optimal upper and lower bounds for approximating decision tree splits in data streams. For regression with labels in the range $\{0,1,\ldots,M\}$, we give a one-pass algorithm using $\tilde{O}(M^2/\epsilon)$ space that…

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The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

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We study the problem of constructing hypergraph cut sparsifiers in the streaming model where a hypergraph on $n$ vertices is revealed either via an arbitrary sequence of hyperedge insertions alone ({\em insertion-only} streaming model) or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman , Madhu Sudan

The Max-Cut problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem, which is attracting attention in the field of quantum computation these days. Regarding the approximation algorithm of the Max-Cut problem, algorithms based on semidefinite programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Eiichiro Sato

Cut and spectral sparsification of graphs have numerous applications, including e.g. speeding up algorithms for cuts and Laplacian solvers. These powerful notions have recently been extended to hypergraphs, which are much richer and may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Michael Kapralov , Robert Krauthgamer , Jakab Tardos , Yuichi Yoshida

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

Space complexity is a critical factor in various computational models, including streaming, parallel/distributed computing, and communication complexity. We study the space complexity of the minimum-cost flow problem, a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jan van den Brand , Zhao Song , Albert Weng

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

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