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This paper presents a computational framework for the concise encoding of an ensemble of persistence diagrams, in the form of weighted Wasserstein barycenters [100], [102] of a dictionary of atom diagrams. We introduce a multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Keanu Sisouk , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

Given two point sets in the plane, we study the minimization of the bottleneck distance between a point set B and an equally-sized subset of a point set A under translations. We relate this problem to a Voronoi-type diagram and derive…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Matthias Henze , Rafel Jaume

The stability of persistence diagrams is among the most important results in applied and computational topology. Most results in the literature phrase stability in terms of the bottleneck distance between diagrams and the $\infty$-norm of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Primoz Skraba , Katharine Turner

\v{C}ech Persistence diagrams (PDs) are topological descriptors routinely used to capture the geometry of complex datasets. They are commonly compared using the Wasserstein distances $OT_{p}$; however, the extent to which PDs are stable…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Charles Arnal , David Cohen-Steiner , Vincent Divol

Sketching is a stochastic dimension reduction method that preserves geometric structures of data and has applications in high-dimensional regression, low rank approximation and graph sparsification. In this work, we show that sketching can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-17 Zhishen Huang , Stephen Becker

A fundamental question in streaming complexity is whether every space-efficient turnstile algorithm is implicitly a linear sketch. The landmark work of Li, Nguyen, and Woodruff [LNW14] established an equivalence between the two, but their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Cheng Jiang , Yinchen Liu , Huacheng Yu

Tensor network contraction is a fundamental mathematical operation that generalizes the dot product and matrix multiplication. It finds applications in numerous domains, such as database systems, graph theory, machine learning, probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mike Heddes , Igor Nunes , Tony Givargis , Alex Nicolau

A fundamental question in computational geometry is for a set of input points in the Euclidean space, that is subject to discrete changes (insertion/deletion of points at each time step), whether it is possible to maintain an approximate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-22 A. Karim Abu-Affash , Sujoy Bhore , Paz Carmi

Data sketches are approximate succinct summaries of long streams. They are widely used for processing massive amounts of data and answering statistical queries about it in real-time. Existing libraries producing sketches are very fast, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Arik Rinberg , Alexander Spiegelman , Edward Bortnikov , Eshcar Hillel , Idit Keidar , Lee Rhodes , Hadar Serviansky

This paper describes a suite of algorithms for constructing low-rank approximations of an input matrix from a random linear image of the matrix, called a sketch. These methods can preserve structural properties of the input matrix, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

Sketching, a dimensionality reduction technique, has received much attention in the statistics community. In this paper, we study sketching in the context of Newton's method for solving finite-sum optimization problems in which the number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Jorge Nocedal

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

We consider distributed optimization methods for problems where forming the Hessian is computationally challenging and communication is a significant bottleneck. We leverage randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

Matrix sketching is a powerful tool for reducing the size of large data matrices. Yet there are fundamental limitations to this size reduction when we want to recover an accurate estimator for a task such as least square regression. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sachin Garg , Kevin Tan , Michał Dereziński

Sketching is a randomized dimensionality-reduction method that aims to preserve relevant information in large-scale datasets. Count sketch is a simple popular sketch which uses a randomized hash function to achieve compression. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Yang Shi , Animashree Anandkumar

We introduce a novel technique for ``lifting'' dimension lower bounds for linear sketches in the real-valued setting to dimension lower bounds for linear sketches with polynomially-bounded integer entries when the input is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

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

Many real-world matrix datasets arrive as high-throughput vector streams, making it impractical to store or process them in their entirety. To enable real-time analytics under limited computational, memory, and communication resources,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hanyan Yin , Dongxie Wen , Jiajun Li , Zhewei Wei , Xiao Zhang , Peng Zhao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Constrained least squares problems arise in many applications. Their memory and computation costs are expensive in practice involving high-dimensional input data. We employ the so-called "sketching" strategy to project the least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ke Chen , Ruhui Jin

In multi-parameter persistence, the matching distance is defined as the supremum of weighted bottleneck distances on the barcodes given by the restriction of persistence modules to lines with a positive slope. In the case of finitely…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler , Elizabeth R. Stephenson