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We prove an optimal $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the randomized communication complexity of the much-studied Gap-Hamming-Distance problem. As a consequence, we obtain essentially optimal multi-pass space lower bounds in the data stream model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Amit Chakrabarti , Oded Regev

Consider the following abstract coin tossing problem: Given a set of $n$ coins with unknown biases, find the most biased coin using a minimal number of coin tosses. This is a common abstraction of various exploration problems in theoretical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

The need for real time analysis of rapidly producing data streams (e.g., video and image streams) motivated the design of streaming algorithms that can efficiently extract and summarize useful information from massive data "on the fly".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Stefanie Jegelka , Andreas Krause

We study space-pass tradeoffs in graph streaming algorithms for parameter estimation and property testing problems such as estimating the size of maximum matchings and maximum cuts, weight of minimum spanning trees, or testing if a graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Sepehr Assadi , Vishvajeet N

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

Many string processing problems can be phrased in the streaming setting, where the input arrives symbol by symbol and we have sublinear working space. The area of streaming algorithms for string processing has flourished since the seminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Taha El Ghazi , Jonas Ellert , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tatiana Starikovskaya

We study the precedence-constrained resource scheduling problem [SICOMP'75]. There are $n$ jobs where each job takes a certain time to finish and has a resource requirement throughout the execution time. There are precedence among the jobs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rathish Das , Hao Sun

In this work, we study the problem of finding the maximum value of a non-negative submodular function subject to a limit on the number of items selected, a ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications, such as data summarization and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yixin Chen , Alan Kuhnle

Sketching algorithms have recently proven to be a powerful approach both for designing low-space streaming algorithms as well as fast polynomial time approximation schemes (PTAS). In this work, we develop new techniques to extend the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Gregory Dexter , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

Given a stream of items each associated with a numerical value, its edit distance to monotonicity is the minimum number of items to remove so that the remaining items are non-decreasing with respect to the numerical value. The space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Ho-Leung Chan , Tak-Wah Lam , Lap-Kei Lee , Jiangwei Pan , Hing-Fung Ting , Qin Zhang

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

For an arbitrary family of predicates $\mathcal{F} \subseteq \{0,1\}^{[q]^k}$ and any $\epsilon > 0$, we prove a single-pass, linear-space streaming lower bound against the gap promise problem of distinguishing instances of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Noah G. Singer , Madhur Tulsiani , Santhoshini Velusamy

We study the problem of graph and hypergraph sparsification in insertion-only data streams. The input is a hypergraph $H=(V, E, w)$ with $n$ nodes, $m$ hyperedges, and rank $r$, and the goal is to compute a hypergraph $\widehat{H}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

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

Estimating ranks, quantiles, and distributions over streaming data is a central task in data analysis and monitoring. Given a stream of $n$ items from a data universe equipped with a total order, the task is to compute a sketch (data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Graham Cormode , Zohar Karnin , Edo Liberty , Justin Thaler , Pavel Veselý

Approximating the length of the longest increasing sequence (LIS) of an array is a well-studied problem. We study this problem in the data stream model, where the algorithm is allowed to make a single left-to-right pass through the array…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Michael Saks , C. Seshadhri

We show that fundamental learning tasks, such as finding an approximate linear separator or linear regression, require memory at least \emph{quadratic} in the dimension, in a natural streaming setting. This implies that such problems cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Yuval Dagan , Gil Kur , Ohad Shamir

In the first of these two papers we demonstrated that assuming streams delineate orbits can lead to order one errors in potential parameters for realistic Galactic potentials. Motivated by the need for an improvement on orbit-fitting, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-24 Jason L. Sanders , James Binney

We present faster approximation algorithms for generalized network flow problems. A generalized flow is one in which the flow out of an edge differs from the flow into the edge by a constant factor. We limit ourselves to the lossy case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Samuel I. Daitch , Daniel A. Spielman

The Max-DICUT problem has gained a lot of attention in the streaming setting in recent years, and has so far served as a canonical problem for designing algorithms for general constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in this setting. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Santhoshini Velusamy