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Frequency estimation of elements is an important task for summarizing data streams and machine learning applications. The problem is often addressed by using streaming algorithms with sublinear space data structures. These algorithms allow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Nikita Seleznev , Senthil Kumar , C. Bayan Bruss

A graph stream is a continuous sequence of data items, in which each item indicates an edge, including its two endpoints and edge weight. It forms a dynamic graph that changes with every item in the stream. Graph streams play important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Xiangyang Gou , Lei Zou , Chenxingyu Zhao , Tong Yang

Estimating cardinality, i.e., the number of distinct elements, of a data stream is a fundamental problem in areas like databases, computer networks, and information retrieval. This study delves into a broader scenario where each element…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yiyan Qi , Rundong Li , Pinghui Wang , Yufang Sun , Rui Xing

Network stream mining is fundamental to many network operations. Sketches, as compact data structures that offer low memory overhead with bounded accuracy, have emerged as a promising solution for network stream mining. Recent studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yuanpeng Li , Zhen Xu , Zongwei Lv , Yannan Hu , Yong Cui , Tong Yang

A data sketch algorithm scans a big data set, collecting a small amount of data -- the sketch, which can be used to statistically infer properties of the big data set. Some data sketch algorithms take a fixed-size random sample of a big…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Eric Bax , John Donald

Large, distributed data streams are now ubiquitous. High-accuracy sketches with low memory overhead have become the de facto method for analyzing this data. For instance, if we wish to group data by some label and report the largest counts…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Homin K. Lee , Charles Masson

Sketch-based streaming algorithms allow efficient processing of big data. These algorithms use small fixed-size storage to store a summary ("sketch") of the input data, and use probabilistic algorithms to estimate the desired quantity.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Reuven Cohen , Liran Katzir , Aviv Yehezkel

While traditional data-management systems focus on evaluating single, ad-hoc queries over static data sets in a centralized setting, several emerging applications require (possibly, continuous) answers to queries on dynamic data that is…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Odysseas Papapetrou , Minos Garofalakis , Antonios Deligiannakis

Structured high-cardinality data arises in many domains, and poses a major challenge for both modeling and inference. Graphical models are a popular approach to modeling structured data but they are unsuitable for high-cardinality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Branislav Kveton , Hung Bui , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Georgios Theocharous , S. Muthukrishnan , Siqi Sun

Sketches are commonly used in computer systems and network monitoring tools to provide efficient query executions while maintaining a compact data representation. Switches and routers maintain sketches to track statistical characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Diana Cohen , Roy Friedman , Rana Shahout

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the distance between any two large data streams in small- space constraint. This problem is of utmost importance in data intensive monitoring applications where input streams are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Emmanuelle Anceaume , Yann Busnel

Demands are increasing to measure per-flow statistics in the data plane of high-speed switches. Measuring flows with exact counting is infeasible due to processing and memory constraints, but a sketch is a promising candidate for collecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-05 SunYoung Kim , Changhun Jung , RhongHo Jang , David Mohaisen , DaeHun Nyang

Discovering frequent episodes over event sequences is an important data mining task. In many applications, events constituting the data sequence arrive as a stream, at furious rates, and recent trends (or frequent episodes) can change and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Debprakash Patnaik , Naren Ramakrishnan , Srivatsan Laxman , Badrish Chandramouli

We describe Hokusai, a real time system which is able to capture frequency information for streams of arbitrary sequences of symbols. The algorithm uses the CountMin sketch as its basis and exploits the fact that sketching is linear. It…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Sergiy Matusevych , Alex Smola , Amr Ahmed

We adapt a well known streaming algorithm for approximating item frequencies to the matrix sketching setting. The algorithm receives the rows of a large matrix $A \in \R^{n \times m}$ one after the other in a streaming fashion. It maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Edo Liberty

Given a labeled graph, the frequent-subgraph mining (FSM) problem asks to find all the $k$-vertex subgraphs that appear with frequency greater than a given threshold. FSM has numerous applications ranging from biology to network science, as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Cigdem Aslay , Muhammad Anis Uddin Nasir , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Aristides Gionis

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

Graph streams are rapidly evolving sequences of edges that convey continuously changing relationships among entities, playing a crucial role in domains such as networking, finance, and cybersecurity. Their massive scale and high dynamism…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Boyan Wang , Zhuochen Fan , Dayu Wang , Fangcheng Fu , Zeyu Luan , Lei Zou , Qing Li , Tong Yang

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is essential for identifying malicious activities, fraud, and unexpected behaviors in real-world systems such as cybersecurity and power grids. However, existing approaches struggle with scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

We introduce a new sub-linear space sketch---the Weight-Median Sketch---for learning compressed linear classifiers over data streams while supporting the efficient recovery of large-magnitude weights in the model. This enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kai Sheng Tai , Vatsal Sharan , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant