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We study the problem of finding and monitoring fixed-size subgraphs in a continually changing large-scale graph. We present the first approach that (i) performs worst-case optimal computation and communication, (ii) maintains a total memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Khaled Ammar , Frank McSherry , Semih Salihoglu , Manas Joglekar

Data structures used in software development have inbuilt redundancy to improve software reliability and to speed up performance. Examples include a Doubly Linked List which allows a faster deletion due to the presence of the previous…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pratyush Mahapatra , Mark D. Hill , Michael M. Swift

A priority queue is a fundamental data structure that maintains a dynamic set of (key, priority)-pairs and supports Insert, Delete, ExtractMin and DecreaseKey operations. In the external memory model, the current best priority queue…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Shunhua Jiang , Kasper Green Larsen

We introduce a new technique for the efficient management of large sequences of multidimensional data, which takes advantage of regularities that arise in real-world datasets and supports different types of aggregation queries. More…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Nieves R. Brisaboa , Guillermo de Bernardo , Gonzalo Navarro , Tirso V. Rodeiro , Diego Seco

We consider the classical problem of representing a collection of priority queues under the operations \Findmin{}, \Insert{}, \Decrease{}, \Meld{}, \Delete{}, and \Deletemin{}. In the comparison-based model, if the first four operations are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Amr Elmasry , Jyrki Katajainen

PEPit is a Python package aiming at simplifying the access to worst-case analyses of a large family of first-order optimization methods possibly involving gradient, projection, proximal, or linear optimization oracles, along with their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Baptiste Goujaud , Céline Moucer , François Glineur , Julien Hendrickx , Adrien Taylor , Aymeric Dieuleveut

In this paper, we study the communication complexity for the problem of computing a conjunctive query on a large database in a parallel setting with $p$ servers. In contrast to previous work, where upper and lower bounds on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Paul Beame , Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

When combining data from multiple sources, inconsistent data complicates the production of a coherent result. In this paper, we introduce a new type of constraints called edit rules under a partial key (EPKs). These constraints can model…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Antoon Bronselaer , Maribel Acosta

Phishing attacks pose a significant cybersecurity threat, evolving rapidly to bypass detection mechanisms and exploit human vulnerabilities. This paper introduces PhishKey to address the challenges of adaptability, robustness, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Felipe Castaño , Eduardo Fidalgo , Enrique Alegre , Rocio Alaiz-Rodríguez , Raul Orduna , Francesco Zola

It has been shown in the indexing literature that there is an essential difference between prefix/range searches on the one hand, and predecessor/rank searches on the other hand, in that the former provably allows faster query resolution.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Djamal Belazzougui , Paolo Boldi , Rasmus Pagh , Sebastiano Vigna

We analyze priority queues of Fibonacci family. The paper is inspired by Violation heap [1], where A. Elmasry saves one pointer in representation of Fibonacci heap nodes while achieving the same amortized bounds as Fibonacci heaps [2] of M.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Vladan Majerech

In this paper, we study the behavior of the Hedge algorithm in the online stochastic setting. We prove that anytime Hedge with decreasing learning rate, which is one of the simplest algorithm for the problem of prediction with expert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-10 Jaouad Mourtada , Stéphane Gaïffas

Low-level database operators often admit multiple physical implementations ("kernels") that are semantically equivalent but have vastly different performance characteristics depending on the input data distribution. Existing database…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zijie Zhao , Ryan Marcus

In this paper we prove that Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm, if implemented with a sufficiently efficient heap, is universally optimal in its running time, and with suitable small additions is also universally optimal in its number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Václav Rozhoň , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

The Suffix Array is a classic text index enabling on-line pattern matching queries via simple binary search. The main drawback of the Suffix Array is that it takes linear space in the text's length, even if the text itself is extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Davide Cenzato , Lore Depuydt , Travis Gagie , Sung-Hwan Kim , Giovanni Manzini , Francisco Olivares , Nicola Prezza

A heap is a dynamic data structure that stores a set of labeled values under the following operations: pop returns the minimum value of the heap, Push($x_i$) pushes a new value $x_i$ onto the heap, and DecreaseKey($i$, $v$) decreases the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ivor van der Hoog , John Iacono , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Compression of inverted lists with methods that support fast intersection operations is an active research topic. Most compression schemes rely on encoding differences between consecutive positions with techniques that favor small numbers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Francisco Claude , Antonio Farina , Gonzalo Navarro

We propose a simple, powerful, and flexible machine learning framework for (i) reducing the search space of computationally difficult enumeration variants of subset problems and (ii) augmenting existing state-of-the-art solvers with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta

Large-scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in the physical sciences; yet, high-fidelity models can often be complex and computationally prohibitive for optimization. A practical alternative is to use a low-fidelity model to facilitate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Madhusudan Madhavan , Joseph Hart , Bart van Bloemen Waanders