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We study the maximum geometric independent set and clique problems in the streaming model. Given a collection of geometric objects arriving in an insertion only stream, the aim is to find a subset such that all objects in the subset are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Sujoy Bhore , Fabian Klute , Jelle J. Oostveen

The problem of (approximately) counting the number of triangles in a graph is one of the basic problems in graph theory. In this paper we study the problem in the streaming model. We study the amount of memory required by a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Vladimir Braverman , Rafail Ostrovsky , Dan Vilenchik

There has been a recent explosion in the size of stored data, partially due to advances in storage technology, and partially due to the growing popularity of cloud-computing and the vast quantities of data generated. This motivates the need…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-06 Isabelle Stanton

We study the complexity of the following problems in the streaming model. Membership testing for \DLIN We show that every language in \DLIN\ can be recognised by a randomized one-pass $O(\log n)$ space algorithm with inverse polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-06 Ajesh Babu , Nutan Limaye , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Girish Varma

We present an algorithm for computing $F_p$, the $p$th moment of an $n$-dimensional frequency vector of a data stream, for $2 < p < \log (n) $, to within $1\pm \epsilon$ factors, $\epsilon \in [n^{-1/p},1]$ with high constant probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Sumit Ganguly

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 set of vectors $X = \{ x_1,\dots, x_n \} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, the Euclidean max-cut problem asks to partition the vectors into two parts so as to maximize the sum of Euclidean distances which cross the partition. We design new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Nicolas Menand , Erik Waingarten

We consider the dynamic resource allocation problem where the decision space is finite-dimensional, yet the solution must satisfy a large or even infinite number of constraints revealed via streaming data or oracle feedback. We model this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiming Zong , Jiashuo Jiang

In a recent breakthrough, Paz and Schwartzman (SODA'17) presented a single-pass ($2+\epsilon$)-approximation algorithm for the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model. Their algorithm uses $O(n\log^2 n)$ bits of space,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Mohsen Ghaffari , David Wajc

We prove tight upper and lower bounds on approximation ratios of all Boolean Max-2CSP problems in the streaming model. Specifically, for every type of Max-2CSP problem, we give an explicit constant $\alpha$, s.t. for any $\epsilon>0$ (i)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chi-Ning Chou , Alexander Golovnev , Santhoshini Velusamy

Given a collection of $m$ sets from a universe $\mathcal{U}$, the Maximum Set Coverage problem consists of finding $k$ sets whose union has largest cardinality. This problem is NP-Hard, but the solution can be approximated by a polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Stephen Jaud , Anthony Wirth , Farhana Choudhury

In this paper, we show that if the optimization function is restricted-strongly-convex (RSC) and restricted-smooth (RSM) -- a rich subclass of weakly submodular functions -- then a streaming algorithm with constant factor approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Amit Dhurandhar

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

We study approximation algorithms for the following three string measures that are widely used in practice: edit distance (ED), longest common subsequence (LCS), and longest increasing sequence (LIS). All three problems can be solved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Kuan Cheng , Zhengzhong Jin , Xin Li , Yu Zheng

We give the first single-pass streaming algorithm for Column Subset Selection with respect to the entrywise $\ell_p$-norm with $1 \leq p < 2$. We study the $\ell_p$ norm loss since it is often considered more robust to noise than the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Shuli Jiang , Dongyu Li , Irene Mengze Li , Arvind V. Mahankali , David P. Woodruff

The problem of finding locally dense components of a graph is an important primitive in data analysis, with wide-ranging applications from community mining to spam detection and the discovery of biological network modules. In this paper we…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Bahman Bahmani , Ravi Kumar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

When facing a very large stream of data, it is often desirable to extract most important statistics online in a short time and using small memory. For example, one may want to quickly find the most influential users generating posts online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Dominik Pajak

A semi-streaming algorithm in dynamic graph streams processes any $n$-vertex graph by making one or multiple passes over a stream of insertions and deletions to edges of the graph and using $O(n \cdot \mbox{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan

Algorithms in the data stream model use $O(polylog(N))$ space to compute some property of an input of size $N$, and many of these algorithms are implemented and used in practice. However, sketching algorithms in the graph semi-streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Michael A. Bender , Martín Farach-Colton , Riko Jacob , Hanna Komlós , David Tench , Evan West