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In this research paper, we address the Distinct Elements estimation problem in the context of streaming algorithms. The problem involves estimating the number of distinct elements in a given data stream $\mathcal{A} = (a_1, a_2,\ldots,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mridul Nandi , Soumit Paul

The element distinctness problem is the problem of determining whether the elements of a list are distinct, that is, if $x=(x_1,...,x_N)$ is a list with $N$ elements, we ask whether the elements of $x$ are distinct or not. The solution in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Renato Portugal

The distinct elements problem is one of the fundamental problems in streaming algorithms --- given a stream of integers in the range $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, we wish to provide a $(1+\varepsilon)$ approximation to the number of distinct elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jarosław Błasiok

The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

In this paper we study how to perform distinct sampling in the streaming model where data contain near-duplicates. The goal of distinct sampling is to return a distinct element uniformly at random from the universe of elements, given that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jiecao Chen , Qin Zhang

We consider the distinct elements problem, where the goal is to estimate the number of distinct colors in an urn containing $ k $ balls based on $n$ samples drawn with replacements. Based on discrete polynomial approximation and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Yihong Wu , Pengkun Yang

Given $m$ distributed data streams $A_1, \dots, A_m$, we consider the problem of estimating the number of unique identifiers in streams defined by set expressions over $A_1, \dots, A_m$. We identify a broad class of algorithms for solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Anirban Dasgupta , Kevin Lang , Lee Rhodes , Justin Thaler

We study the problem of distributed distinct element estimation, where $\alpha$ servers each receive a subset of a universe $[n]$ and aim to compute a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation to the number of distinct elements using minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Jasper C. H. Lee , Thanasis Pittas , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Partitioning a set of elements into an unknown number of mutually exclusive subsets is essential in many machine learning problems. However, assigning elements, such as samples in a dataset or neurons in a network layer, to an unknown and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Thomas M. Sutter , Alain Ryser , Joram Liebeskind , Julia E. Vogt

We investigate deterministic and randomized streaming algorithms for word problems in finitely generated groups and semigroups. For this we introduce the notion of a distinguisher: a randomized streaming algorithm that processes two input…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Markus Lohrey , Lukas Lück , Alexander Thumm , Julio Xochitemol

A text stream is an ordered sequence of text documents generated over time. A massive amount of such text data is generated by online social platforms every day. Designing an algorithm for such text streams to extract useful information is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jay Kumar

We consider low-space algorithms for the classic Element Distinctness problem: given an array of $n$ input integers with $O(\log n)$ bit-length, decide whether or not all elements are pairwise distinct. Beame, Clifford, and Machmouchi [FOCS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lijie Chen , Ce Jin , R. Ryan Williams , Hongxun Wu

Artificial intelligence has recently experienced remarkable advances, fueled by large models, vast datasets, accelerated hardware, and, last but not least, the transformative power of differentiable programming. This new programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mathieu Blondel , Vincent Roulet

In this work, we present data stream algorithms to compute optimal splits for decision tree learning. In particular, given a data stream of observations \(x_i\) and their corresponding labels \(y_i\), without the i.i.d. assumption, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Huy Pham , Hoang Ta , Hoa T. Vu

We present a novel approach for the problem of frequency estimation in data streams that is based on optimization and machine learning. Contrary to state-of-the-art streaming frequency estimation algorithms, which heavily rely on random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis

We study the problem of partitioning integer sequences in the one-pass data streaming model. Given is an input stream of integers $X \in \{0, 1, \dots, m \}^n$ of length $n$ with maximum element $m$, and a parameter $p$. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Christian Konrad , László Kozma

Estimating the quantiles of a large dataset is a fundamental problem in both the streaming algorithms literature and the differential privacy literature. However, all existing private mechanisms for distribution-independent quantile…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Daniel Alabi , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Anamay Chaturvedi

Detecting frequent elements is among the oldest and most-studied problems in the area of data streams. Given a stream of $m$ data items in $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$, the objective is to output items that appear at least $d$ times, for some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Christian Konrad

We study the power of Arthur-Merlin probabilistic proof systems in the data stream model. We show a canonical $\mathcal{AM}$ streaming algorithm for a wide class of data stream problems. The algorithm offers a tradeoff between the length of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Tom Gur , Ran Raz

We consider the independent set problem in the semi-streaming model. For any input graph $G=(V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, an independent set is a set of vertices with no edges between any two elements. In the semi-streaming model, $G$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Daniel Ye
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