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Kernel methods are learning algorithms that enjoy solid theoretical foundations while suffering from important computational limitations. Sketching, which consists in looking for solutions among a subspace of reduced dimension, is a well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-07 Tamim El Ahmad , Pierre Laforgue , Florence d'Alché-Buc

A sketch is a probabilistic data structure used to record frequencies of items in a multi-set. Sketches are widely used in various fields, especially those that involve processing and storing data streams. In streaming applications with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Tong Yang , Lingtong Liu , Yibo Yan , Muhammad Shahzad , Yulong Shen , Xiaoming Li , Bin Cui , Gaogang Xie

Estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream is well understood when repeated elements are identical. In modern settings, however, observations are high-dimensional and noisy, so repeated instances of the same object are only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Nikos Tsikouras , Constantine Caramanis , Christos Tzamos

We propose a multi-scale multi-channel deep neural network framework that, for the first time, yields sketch recognition performance surpassing that of humans. Our superior performance is a result of explicitly embedding the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Qian Yu , Yongxin Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy Hospedales

This paper develops conformal inference methods to construct a confidence interval for the frequency of a queried object in a very large discrete data set, based on a sketch with a lower memory footprint. This approach requires no knowledge…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-17 Matteo Sesia , Stefano Favaro , Edgar Dobriban

The immense amount of daily generated and communicated data presents unique challenges in their processing. Clustering, the grouping of data without the presence of ground-truth labels, is an important tool for drawing inferences from data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-08 Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Georgios B. Giannakis

We introduce features for massive data streams. These stream features can be thought of as "ordered moments" and generalize stream sketches from "moments of order one" to "ordered moments of arbitrary order". In analogy to classic moments,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-01 Terry Lyons , Harald Oberhauser

In data stream applications, one of the critical issues is to estimate the frequency of each item in the specific multiset. The multiset means that each item in this set can appear multiple times. The data streams in many applications are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ning Li

Linear algebraic operations are ubiquitous in engineering applications, and arise often in a variety of fields including statistical signal processing and machine learning. With contemporary large datasets, to perform linear algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Neophytos Charalambides , Arya Mazumdar

In this paper, we take into consideration quantile estimation in data stream models, where every item in the data stream is a key-value pair. Researchers sometimes aim to estimate per-key quantiles (i.e. quantile estimation for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiarui Guo , Qiushi Lyu , Yuhan Wu , Haoyu Li , Zhaoqian Yao , Yuqi Dong , Xiaolin Wang , Bin Cui , Tong Yang

We present DegreeSketch, a semi-streaming distributed sketch data structure and demonstrate its utility for estimating local neighborhood sizes and local triangle count heavy hitters on massive graphs. DegreeSketch consists of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Benjamin W. Priest

We propose a randomized second-order method for optimization known as the Newton Sketch: it is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a randomly projected or sub-sampled Hessian. For self-concordant functions, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

This article considers "compressive learning," an approach to large-scale machine learning where datasets are massively compressed before learning (e.g., clustering, classification, or regression) is performed. In particular, a "sketch" is…

The challenge of estimating similarity between sets has been a significant concern in data science, finding diverse applications across various domains. However, previous approaches, such as MinHash, have predominantly centered around…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Fenghao Dong , Yang He , Yutong Liang , Zirui Liu , Yuhan Wu , Peiqing Chen , Tong Yang

Pairwise alignment of DNA sequencing data is a ubiquitous task in bioinformatics and typically represents a heavy computational burden. A standard approach to speed up this task is to compute "sketches" of the DNA reads (typically via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ilan Shomorony , Govinda M. Kamath

As data volume grows extensively, data profiling helps to extract metadata of large-scale data. However, one kind of metadata, order statistics, is difficult to be computed because they are not mergeable or incremental. Thus, the limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Zhiwei Chen , Aoqian Zhang

Sketching is an important tool for dealing with high-dimensional vectors that are sparse (or well-approximated by a sparse vector), especially useful in distributed, parallel, and streaming settings. It is known that sketches can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup

Running machine learning analytics over geographically distributed datasets is a rapidly arising problem in the world of data management policies ensuring privacy and data security. Visualizing high dimensional data using tools such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Viska Wei , Nikita Ivkin , Vladimir Braverman , Alexander Szalay

Massive sizes of real-world graphs, such as social networks and web graph, impose serious challenges to process and perform analytics on them. These issues can be resolved by working on a small summary of the graph instead . A summary is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Maham Anwar Beg , Muhammad Ahmad , Arif Zaman , Imdadullah Khan

Many datasets such as market basket data, text or hypertext documents, and sensor observations recorded in different locations or time periods, are modeled as a collection of sets over a ground set of keys. We are interested in basic…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-03-05 Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan