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A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that represents a set $S$ of elements from a larger universe $U$. This efficiency comes with a trade-off, namely, it allows for a small chance of false positives. When you…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hayder Tirmazi

Bloom Filter is a probabilistic data structure for the membership query, and it has been intensely experimented in various fields to reduce memory consumption and enhance a system's performance. Bloom Filter is classified into two key…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sabuzima Nayak , Ripon Patgiri

The Bloom filter (BF) is a well-known space-efficient data structure that answers set membership queries with some probability of false positives. In an attempt to solve many of the limitations of current inter-networking architectures,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Christian Esteve Rothenberg , Carlos A. Macapuna , Fabio L. Verdi , Mauricio F. Magalhaes , Alexander Wiesmaier

Bloom and cuckoo filters provide fast approximate set membership while using little memory. Engineers use them to avoid expensive disk and network accesses. The recently introduced xor filters can be faster and smaller than Bloom and cuckoo…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Thomas Mueller Graf , Daniel Lemire

Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure for checking elements' membership in a set. Given multiple sets, however, a standard Bloom filter is not sufficient when looking for the items to which an element or a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Francesco Concas , Pengfei Xu , Mohammad A. Hoque , Jiaheng Lu , Sasu Tarkoma

A Bloom filter is a space efficient structure for storing static sets, where the space efficiency is gained at the expense of a small probability of false-positives. A Bloomier filter generalizes a Bloom filter to compactly store a function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-07-08 Denis Charles , Kumar Chellapilla

A Bloom filter is a method for reducing the space (memory) required for representing a set by allowing a small error probability. In this paper we consider a \emph{Sliding Bloom Filter}: a data structure that, given a stream of elements,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Moni Naor , Eylon Yogev

Learned Bloom Filters, i.e., models induced from data via machine learning techniques and solving the approximate set membership problem, have recently been introduced with the aim of enhancing the performance of standard Bloom Filters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Dario Malchiodi , Davide Raimondi , Giacomo Fumagalli , Raffaele Giancarlo , Marco Frasca

The Bloom filter (BF) is a space efficient randomized data structure particularly suitable to represent a set supporting approximate membership queries. BFs have been extensively used in many applications especially in networking due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Laura Carrea , Alexei Vernitski , Martin Reed

Bloom filters are probabilistic data structures commonly used for approximate membership problems in many areas of Computer Science (networking, distributed systems, databases, etc.). With the increase in data size and distribution of data,…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Adina Crainiceanu , Daniel Lemire

Bloom Filters are a fundamental and pervasive data structure. Within the growing area of Learned Data Structures, several Learned versions of Bloom Filters have been considered, yielding advantages over classic Filters. Each of them uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Giacomo Fumagalli , Davide Raimondi , Raffaele Giancarlo , Dario Malchiodi , Marco Frasca

The Bloom filter---or, more generally, an approximate membership query data structure (AMQ)---maintains a compact, probabilistic representation of a set S of keys from a universe U. An AMQ supports lookups, inserts, and (for some AMQs)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Michael A. Bender , Martin Farach-Colton , Mayank Goswami , Rob Johnson , Samuel McCauley , Shikha Singh

Dynamic Bloom filters (DBF) were proposed by Guo et. al. in 2010 to tackle the situation where the size of the set to be stored compactly is not known in advance or can change during the course of the application. We propose a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Sidharth Negi , Ameya Dubey , Amitabha Bagchi , Manish Yadav , Nishant Yadav , Jeetu Raj

A Bloom filter is a memory-efficient data structure for approximate membership queries used in numerous fields of computer science. Recently, learned Bloom filters that achieve better memory efficiency using machine learning models have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Atsuki Sato , Yusuke Matsui

Bloom filter is a widely used classic data structure for approximate membership queries. Learned Bloom filters improve memory efficiency by leveraging machine learning, with the partitioned learned Bloom filter (PLBF) being among the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Atsuki Sato , Yusuke Matsui

Popular approximate membership query structures such as Bloom filters and cuckoo filters are widely used in databases, security, and networking. These structures represent sets approximately, and support at least two operations - insert and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jim Apple

Filters are ubiquitous in computer science, enabling space-efficient approximate membership testing. Since Bloom filters were introduced in 1970, decades of work improved their space efficiency and performance. Recently, three new paradigms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Diandre Miguel Sabale , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Prashant Pandey

In this paper we compare two probabilistic data structures for association queries derived from the well-known Bloom filter: the shifting Bloom filter (ShBF), and the spatial Bloom filter (SBF). With respect to the original data structure,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Luca Calderoni , Dario Maio , Paolo Palmieri

Bloom filters are data structures used to determine set membership of elements, with applications from string matching to networking and security problems. These structures are favored because of their reduced memory consumption and fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ethan Madison , Zachary Zipper

We suggest a method for holding a dictionary data structure, which maps keys to values, in the spirit of Bloom Filters. The space requirements of the dictionary we suggest are much smaller than those of a hashtable. We allow storing n keys,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Ely Porat