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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

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are expanding in popularity for broad applications to challenging tasks in chemistry and materials science. Examples include the prediction of properties, the discovery of new reaction…

We compare the ability of a simulated annealing program and an evolutionary algorithm to find molecules with large molecular average hyperpolarizabilities. This property is an important component of nonlinear optical materials. Both…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Dominic Mashak , S. A. Alexander

Privacy-preserving record linkage with Bloom filters has become increasingly popular in medical applications, since Bloom filters allow for probabilistic linkage of sensitive personal data. However, since evidence indicates that Bloom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-27 Martin Kroll , Simone Steinmetzer

This paper presents a novel method for efficient image retrieval, based on a simple and effective hashing of CNN features and the use of an indexing structure based on Bloom filters. These filters are used as gatekeepers for the database of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Andrea Salvi , Simone Ercoli , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure for checking elements' membership in a set. Given multiple sets, however, a standard Bloom filter is not sufficient when looking for the items to which an element or a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Francesco Concas , Pengfei Xu , Mohammad A. Hoque , Jiaheng Lu , Sasu Tarkoma

The discovery of novel materials and functional molecules can help to solve some of society's most urgent challenges, ranging from efficient energy harvesting and storage to uncovering novel pharmaceutical drug candidates. Traditionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Mario Krenn , Florian Häse , AkshatKumar Nigam , Pascal Friederich , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Machine learning solutions are very popular in the field of chemoinformatics, where they have numerous applications, such as novel drug discovery or molecular property prediction. Molecular fingerprints are algorithms commonly used for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-01 Michał Szafarczyk , Piotr Ludynia , Przemysław Kukla

Virtual screening is a technique used in drug discovery to select the most promising molecules to test in a lab. To perform virtual screening, we need a large set of molecules as input, and storing these molecules can become an issue. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Gianmarco Accordi , Davide Gadioli , Giorgio Seguini , Andrea R. Beccari , Gianluca Palermo

A filter is a widely used data structure for storing an approximation of a given set $S$ of elements from some universe $U$ (a countable set).It represents a superset $S'\supseteq S$ that is ''close to $S$'' in the sense that for $x\not\in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ioana O. Bercea , Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen , Rasmus Pagh

Bloom filters, cuckoo filters, and other approximate set membership sketches have a wide range of applications. Oftentimes, expensive operations can be skipped if an item is not in a data set. These filters provide an inexpensive, memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Daniel Ting , Rick Cole

Learned Bloom Filters, i.e., models induced from data via machine learning techniques and solving the approximate set membership problem, have recently been introduced with the aim of enhancing the performance of standard Bloom Filters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Dario Malchiodi , Davide Raimondi , Giacomo Fumagalli , Raffaele Giancarlo , Marco Frasca

We suggest a method for holding a dictionary data structure, which maps keys to values, in the spirit of Bloom Filters. The space requirements of the dictionary we suggest are much smaller than those of a hashtable. We allow storing n keys,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Ely Porat

The Bloom filter (BF) is a well-known space-efficient data structure that answers set membership queries with some probability of false positives. In an attempt to solve many of the limitations of current inter-networking architectures,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Christian Esteve Rothenberg , Carlos A. Macapuna , Fabio L. Verdi , Mauricio F. Magalhaes , Alexander Wiesmaier

The potential number of drug like small molecules is estimated to be between 10^23 and 10^60 while current databases of known compounds are orders of magnitude smaller with approximately 10^8 compounds. This discrepancy has led to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Esben Jannik Bjerrum , Richard Threlfall

SMILES is a linear representation of chemical structures which encodes the connection table, and the stereochemistry of a molecule as a line of text with a grammar structure denoting atoms, bonds, rings and chains, and this information can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Arindam Paul , Dipendra Jha , Reda Al-Bahrani , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Ankit Agrawal

Bloom Filter is extensively deployed data structure in various applications and research domain since its inception. Bloom Filter is able to reduce the space consumption in an order of magnitude. Thus, Bloom Filter is used to keep…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ripon Patgiri , Sabuzima Nayak , Samir Kumar Borgohain

Large Language Models (LLMs) with their strong task-handling capabilities have shown remarkable advancements across a spectrum of fields, moving beyond natural language understanding. However, their proficiency within the chemistry domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Khiem Le , Zhichun Guo , Kaiwen Dong , Xiaobao Huang , Bozhao Nan , Roshni Iyer , Xiangliang Zhang , Olaf Wiest , Wei Wang , Ting Hua , Nitesh V. Chawla

DNA sequencing, especially of microbial genomes and metagenomes, has been at the core of recent research advances in large-scale comparative genomics. The data deluge has resulted in exponential growth in genomic datasets over the past…

We aim to speed up approximate keyword matching by storing a lightweight, fixed-size block of data for each string, called a fingerprint. These work in a similar way to hash values; however, they can be also used for matching with errors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Aleksander Cisłak , Szymon Grabowski