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We characterize the streaming space complexity of every symmetric norm $l$ (a norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$ invariant under sign-flips and coordinate-permutations), by relating this space complexity to the measure-concentration characteristics of…

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Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) consist of a set of variables taking values from some finite domain and a set of local constraints on these variables. The objective is to find an assignment to the variables that maximizes the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amey Bhangale , Yezhou Zhang

In this work we consider the approximability of $\textsf{Max-CSP}(f)$ in the context of sketching algorithms and completely characterize the approximability of all Boolean CSPs. Specifically, given $f$, $\gamma$ and $\beta$ we show that…

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We consider streaming algorithms for approximating a product of input probabilities up to multiplicative error of $1-\epsilon$. It is shown that every randomized streaming algorithm for this problem needs space $\Omega(\log n + \log b -…

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We present an algorithm for the maximum matching problem in dynamic (insertion-deletions) streams with *asymptotically optimal* space complexity: for any $n$-vertex graph, our algorithm with high probability outputs an $\alpha$-approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Sepehr Assadi , Vihan Shah

We consider the problem of approximately solving constraint satisfaction problems with arity $k > 2$ ($k$-CSPs) on instances satisfying certain expansion properties, when viewed as hypergraphs. Random instances of $k$-CSPs, which are also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Vedat Levi Alev , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Madhur Tulsiani

A Boolean maximum constraint satisfaction problem, Max-CSP($f$), is specified by a predicate $f:\{-1,1\}^k\to\{0,1\}$. An $n$-variable instance of Max-CSP($f$) consists of a list of constraints, each of which applies $f$ to $k$ distinct…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Joanna Boyland , Michael Hwang , Tarun Prasad , Noah Singer , Santhoshini Velusamy

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

In many emerging applications, data streams are monitored in a network environment. Due to limited communication bandwidth and other resource constraints, a critical and practical demand is to online compress data streams continuously with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-01 Emad Soroush , Kui Wu , Jian Pei

We explore the use of local algorithms in the design of streaming algorithms for the Maximum Directed Cut problem. Specifically, building on the local algorithm of Buchbinder et al. (FOCS'12) and Censor-Hillel et al. (ALGOSENSORS'17), we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Raghuvansh R. Saxena , Noah G. Singer , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

In this paper, we propose a novel framework that converts streaming algorithms for monotone submodular maximization into streaming algorithms for non-monotone submodular maximization. This reduction readily leads to the currently tightest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Ran Haba , Ehsan Kazemi , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

Maximum surjective constraint satisfaction problems (Max-Sur-CSPs) are computational problems where we are given a set of variables denoting values from a finite domain B and a set of constraints on the variables. A solution to such a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Walter Bach , Hang Zhou

Maximizing a monotone submodular function under various constraints is a classical and intensively studied problem. However, in the single-pass streaming model, where the elements arrive one by one and an algorithm can store only a small…

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Max-Cut is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that has been studied in various computational settings. We initiate the study of its streaming complexity in \emph{general metric spaces} with access to distance oracles. We give…

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While the search for quantum advantage typically focuses on speedups in execution time, quantum algorithms also offer the potential for advantage in space complexity. Previous work has shown such advantages for data stream problems, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 John Kallaugher , Ojas Parekh , Nadezhda Voronova

We introduce a new computational model for data streams: asymptotically exact streaming algorithms. These algorithms have an approximation ratio that tends to one as the length of the stream goes to infinity while the memory used by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Marc Heinrich , Alexander Munteanu , Christian Sohler

We study the space complexity of estimating the diameter of a subset of points in an arbitrary metric space in the dynamic (turnstile) streaming model. The input is given as a stream of updates to a frequency vector $x \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Krish Singal , Erik Waingarten

We consider maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint or a knapsack constraint in the streaming setting. In particular, the elements arrive sequentially and at any point of time, the algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura

We improve the space bound for streaming approximation of Diameter but also of Farthest Neighbor queries, Minimum Enclosing Ball and its Coreset, in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. In particular, our deterministic streaming algorithms…

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Constrained $k$-submodular maximization is a general framework that captures many discrete optimization problems such as ad allocation, influence maximization, personalized recommendation, and many others. In many of these applications,…

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