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We study streaming algorithms for Correlation Clustering. Given a graph as an arbitrary-order stream of edges, with each edge labeled as positive or negative, the goal is to partition the vertices into disjoint clusters, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinhao Dong , Shan Jiang , Shi Li , Pan Peng

We study streaming algorithms for the maximum directed cut problem. The edges of an $n$-vertex directed graph arrive one by one in an arbitrary order, and the goal is to estimate the value of the maximum directed cut using a single pass and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante , Mohammad Saneian

We initiate the study of sub-linear sketching and streaming techniques for estimating the output size of common dictionary compressors such as Lempel-Ziv '77, the run-length Burrows-Wheeler transform, and grammar compression. To this end,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruben Becker , Matteo Canton , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Bojana Kodric , Nicola Prezza

We consider the approximability of constraint satisfaction problems in the streaming setting. For every constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) on $n$ variables taking values in $\{0,\ldots,q-1\}$, we prove that improving over the trivial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Chi-Ning Chou , Alexander Golovnev , Madhu Sudan , Ameya Velingker , Santhoshini Velusamy

A fundamental question in streaming complexity is whether every space-efficient turnstile algorithm is implicitly a linear sketch. The landmark work of Li, Nguyen, and Woodruff [LNW14] established an equivalence between the two, but their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Cheng Jiang , Yinchen Liu , Huacheng Yu

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 consider the problem of monotone, submodular maximization over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$. For this problem, we introduce the first deterministic algorithms with linear time complexity; these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alan Kuhnle

The efficient estimation of frequency moments of a data stream in one-pass using limited space and time per item is one of the most fundamental problem in data stream processing. An especially important estimation is to find the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Gokarna Sharma , Costas Busch , Srikanta Tirthapura

We study the streaming complexity of $k$-counter approximate counting. In the $k$-counter approximate counting problem, we are given an input string in $[k]^n$, and we are required to approximate the number of each $j$'s ($j\in[k]$) in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yichuan Wang

We consider the unweighted bipartite maximum matching problem in the one-pass turnstile streaming model where the input stream consists of edge insertions and deletions. In the insertion-only model, a one-pass $2$-approximation streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Christian Konrad

Streaming computation plays an important role in large-scale data analysis. The sliding window model is a model of streaming computation which also captures the recency of the data. In this model, data arrives one item at a time, but only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Alessandro Epasto , Mohammad Mahdian , Vahab Mirrokni , Peilin Zhong

Streaming algorithms are generally judged by the quality of their solution, memory footprint, and computational complexity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in the streaming setting with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ehsan Kazemi , Marko Mitrovic , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Silvio Lattanzi , Amin Karbasi

Frequency estimation is one of the most fundamental problems in streaming algorithms. Given a stream $S$ of elements from some universe $U=\{1 \ldots n\}$, the goal is to compute, in a single pass, a short sketch of $S$ so that for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , David P. Woodruff

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive success, but their high memory requirements present challenges for long-context token generation. In this paper we study the streaming complexity of attention approximation, a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ekaterina Kochetkova , Kshiteej Sheth , Insu Han , Amir Zandieh , Michael Kapralov

Histograms, i.e., piece-wise constant approximations, are a popular tool used to represent data distributions. Traditionally, the difference between the histogram and the underlying distribution (i.e., the approximation error) is measured…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We consider maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint or a knapsack constraint in the streaming setting. In particular, the elements arrive sequentially and at any point of time, the algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura

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

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,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dmitry Kogan , Robert Krauthgamer

We study streaming algorithms for the interval selection problem: finding a maximum cardinality subset of disjoint intervals on the line. A deterministic 2-approximation streaming algorithm for this problem is developed, together with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Yuval Emek , Magnus M. Halldorsson , Adi Rosen

Despite rapid advancements in lifelong learning (LLL) research, a large body of research mainly focuses on improving the performance in the existing \textit{static} continual learning (CL) setups. These methods lack the ability to succeed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Soumya Banerjee , Vinay Kumar Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri