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Filter data structures are widely used in various areas of computer science to answer approximate set-membership queries. In many applications, the data grows dynamically, requiring their filters to expand along with the data. However,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Niv Dayan , Ioana-Oriana Bercea , Rasmus Pagh

This paper studies the \emph{$\varepsilon$-approximate range emptiness} problem, where the task is to represent a set $S$ of $n$ points from $\{0,\ldots,U-1\}$ and answer emptiness queries of the form "$[a ; b]\cap S \neq \emptyset$ ?" with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Mayank Goswami , Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen , Rasmus Pagh

Adaptive filtering algorithms are pervasive throughout signal processing and have had a material impact on a wide variety of domains including audio processing, telecommunications, biomedical sensing, astrophysics and cosmology, seismology,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jonah Casebeer , Nicholas J. Bryan , Paris Smaragdis

Probabilistic filters are approximate set membership data structures that represent a set of keys in small space, and answer set membership queries without false negative answers, but with a certain allowed false positive probability. Such…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Johanna Elena Schmitz , Jens Zentgraf , Sven Rahmann

Many applications of approximate membership query data structures, or filters, require only an incremental filter that supports insertions but not deletions. However, the design space of incremental filters is missing a "sweet spot" filter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Tomer Even , Guy Even , Adam Morrison

Modifications of the authors' previously-published, generalized, lumped-element, reflectionless filter topologies are presented which remove the original constraints on the relative values of its prototype parameters. Thus, any transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-03 Matthew A. Morgan , Wavley M. Groves , Tod A. Boyd

In this paper, we present an implementation of a cuckoo filter for membership testing, optimized for distributed data stores operating in high workloads. In large databases, querying becomes inefficient using traditional search methods. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Aman Khalid

We show that, under a standard hardness assumption, there is no computationally efficient algorithm that given $n$ samples from an unknown distribution can give valid answers to $n^{3+o(1)}$ adaptively chosen statistical queries. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Moritz Hardt , Jonathan Ullman

Range filters allow checking whether a query range intersects a given set of keys with a chance of returning a false positive answer, thus generalising the functionality of Bloom filters from point to range queries. Existing practical range…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Marco Costa , Paolo Ferragina , Giorgio Vinciguerra

We derive optimal filters on the sphere in the context of detecting compact objects embedded in a stochastic background process. The matched filter and the scale adaptive filter are derived on the sphere in the most general setting,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby

This paper presents the construction of a particle filter, which incorporates elements inspired by genetic algorithms, in order to achieve accelerated adaptation of the estimated posterior distribution to changes in model parameters.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Karol Gellert , Erik Schlögl

Spatial approximations have been traditionally used in spatial databases to accelerate the processing of complex geometric operations. However, approximations are typically only used in a first filtering step to determine a set of candidate…

Non-stationary signals are ubiquitous in real life. Many techniques have been proposed in the last decades which allow decomposing multi-component signals into simple oscillatory mono-components, like the groundbreaking Empirical Mode…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Giovanni Barbarino , Antonio Cicone

The aim of this paper is to provide a variational interpretation of the nonlinear filter in continuous time. A time-stepping procedure is introduced, consisting of successive minimization problems in the space of probability densities. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Richard S. Laugesen , Prashant G. Mehta , Sean P. Meyn , Maxim Raginsky

For many nonlinear Bayesian state estimation problems, the posterior recursion is not analytically tractable, leading to algorithms that are influenced by numerical approximation errors. These algorithms depend on parameters that affect the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Ondrej Straka , Felipe Giraldo-Grueso , Renato Zanetti

Conformal inference is a statistical method used to construct prediction sets for point predictors, providing reliable uncertainty quantification with probability guarantees. This method utilizes historical labeled data to estimate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoyi Su , Zhixin Zhou , Rui Luo

Negative sampling is essential for implicit-feedback-based collaborative filtering, which is used to constitute negative signals from massive unlabeled data to guide supervised learning. The state-of-the-art idea is to utilize hard negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yuhan Zhao , Rui Chen , Riwei Lai , Qilong Han , Hongtao Song , Li Chen

We revisit the adaptive Lasso as well as the thresholded Lasso with refitting, in a high-dimensional linear model, and study prediction error, $\ell_q$-error ($q \in \{1, 2 \} $), and number of false positive selections. Our theoretical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-12 Sara van de Geer , Peter Buhlmann , Shuheng Zhou

Data assimilation algorithms integrate prior information from numerical model simulations with observed data. Ensemble-based filters, regarded as state-of-the-art, are widely employed for large-scale estimation tasks in disciplines such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Iris Rammelmüller , Gottfried Hastermann , Jana de Wiljes

We introduce a probabilistic approach to the LMS filter. By means of an efficient approximation, this approach provides an adaptable step-size LMS algorithm together with a measure of uncertainty about the estimation. In addition, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-11 Jesus Fernandez-Bes , Víctor Elvira , Steven Van Vaerenbergh