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An important objective for analyzing real-world graphs is to achieve scalable performance on large, streaming graphs. A challenging and relevant example is the graph partition problem. As a combinatorial problem, graph partition is NP-hard,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Edward Kao , Vijay Gadepally , Michael Hurley , Michael Jones , Jeremy Kepner , Sanjeev Mohindra , Paul Monticciolo , Albert Reuther , Siddharth Samsi , William Song , Diane Staheli , Steven Smith

We present a method for solving the transshipment problem - also known as uncapacitated minimum cost flow - up to a multiplicative error of $1 + \varepsilon$ in undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights using a tailored gradient…

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We consider computing a longest palindrome in the streaming model, where the symbols arrive one-by-one and we do not have random access to the input. While computing the answer exactly using sublinear space is not possible in such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Paweł Gawrychowski , Oleg Merkurev , Arseny M. Shur , Przemysław Uznański

We present the first semi-streaming PTAS for the minimum feedback arc set problem on directed tournaments in a small number of passes. Namely, we obtain a $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation in polynomial time $O \left( \text{poly}(n)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Anubhav Baweja , Justin Jia , David P. Woodruff

In the distributed triangle detection problem, we have an $n$-vertex network $G=(V,E)$ with one player for each vertex of the graph who sees the edges incident on the vertex. The players communicate in synchronous rounds using the edges of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

In recent years, data streaming has gained prominence due to advances in technologies that enable many applications to generate continuous flows of data. This increases the need to develop algorithms that are able to efficiently process…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vaneet Aggarwal , Shankar Krishnan

In the streaming model, the order of the stream can significantly affect the difficulty of a problem. A $t$-semirandom stream was introduced as an interpolation between random-order ($t=1$) and adversarial-order ($t=n$) streams where an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Harry Lang

Subgraph counting is a fundamental primitive in graph processing, with applications in social network analysis (e.g., estimating the clustering coefficient of a graph), database processing and other areas. The space complexity of subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-16 John Kallaugher , Michael Kapralov , Eric Price

We study random order semi-streaming algorithms for submodular maximization under a wide range of combinatorial constraint classes, including matroids, matroid $p$-parity, $p$-exchange systems and $p$-systems. For most of these classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman , Siyue Liu , Sherry Sarkar

We study the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph stream. No streaming algorithm can get sublinear space on all graphs, so methods in this area bound the space in terms of parameters of the input graph such as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-18 John Kallaugher , Eric Price

We propose a streaming submodular maximization algorithm "stream clipper" that performs as well as the offline greedy algorithm on document/video summarization in practice. It adds elements from a stream either to a solution set $S$ or to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Tianyi Zhou , Jeff Bilmes

Tracking and approximating data matrices in streaming fashion is a fundamental challenge. The problem requires more care and attention when data comes from multiple distributed sites, each receiving a stream of data. This paper considers…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Mina Ghashami , Jeff M. Phillips , Feifei Li

Given a labeled graph, the frequent-subgraph mining (FSM) problem asks to find all the $k$-vertex subgraphs that appear with frequency greater than a given threshold. FSM has numerous applications ranging from biology to network science, as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Cigdem Aslay , Muhammad Anis Uddin Nasir , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Aristides Gionis

While there are software systems that simplify trajectory streams on the fly, few curve simplification algorithms with quality guarantees fit the streaming requirements. We present streaming algorithms for two such problems under the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang , Le Jiang

We introduce a streaming framework for analyzing stochastic approximation/optimization problems. This streaming framework is analogous to solving optimization problems using time-varying mini-batches that arrive sequentially. We provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Nicklas Werge , Olivier Wintenberger

Motivated by the trend to outsource work to commercial cloud computing services, we consider a variation of the streaming paradigm where a streaming algorithm can be assisted by a powerful helper that can provide annotations to the data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Graham Cormode , Michael Mitzenmacher , Justin Thaler

The semi-random graph process is a single player game in which the player is initially presented an empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a vertex $u$ is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Pu Gao , Calum MacRury , Pawel Pralat

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

We study the problem of edge partitioning, where the goal is to partition the edge set of a graph into several parts. The replication factor of a vertex $v$ is the number of parts that contain edges incident to $v$. The goal is to minimize…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alexander Yakunin , Andrey Kupavskii , Alexander Sushin , Stanislav Moiseev

Sketching and streaming algorithms are in the forefront of current research directions for cut problems in graphs. In the streaming model, we show that $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation for Max-Cut must use $n^{1-O(\epsilon)}$ space; moreover,…

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