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\begin{abstract} The frequencies of the elements in a data stream are an important statistical measure and the task of estimating them arises in many applications within data analysis and machine learning. Two of the most popular algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Anders Aamand , Piotr Indyk , Ali Vakilian

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

Frequency estimation of elements is an important task for summarizing data streams and machine learning applications. The problem is often addressed by using streaming algorithms with sublinear space data structures. These algorithms allow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Nikita Seleznev , Senthil Kumar , C. Bayan Bruss

An influential paper of Hsu et al. (ICLR'19) introduced the study of learning-augmented streaming algorithms in the context of frequency estimation. A fundamental problem in the streaming literature, the goal of frequency estimation is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Siddharth Gollapudi , Sandeep Silwal , Hao Wu

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

In data stream applications, one of the critical issues is to estimate the frequency of each item in the specific multiset. The multiset means that each item in this set can appear multiple times. The data streams in many applications are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ning Li

We show how to utilize machine learning approaches to improve sliding window algorithms for approximate frequency estimation problems, under the ``algorithms with predictions'' framework. In this dynamic environment, previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Rana Shahout , Ibrahim Sabek , Michael Mitzenmacher

Estimating the frequency of items on the high-volume, fast data stream has been extensively studied in many areas, such as database and network measurement. Traditional sketches provide only coarse estimates under strict memory constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xinyu Yuan , Yan Qiao , Meng Li , Zhenchun Wei , Cuiying Feng , Zonghui Wang , Wenzhi Chen

Estimating frequencies of items over data streams is a common building block in streaming data measurement and analysis. Misra and Gries introduced their seminal algorithm for the problem in 1982, and the problem has since been revisited…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Daniel Anderson , Pryce Bevan , Kevin Lang , Edo Liberty , Lee Rhodes , Justin Thaler

Randomized algorithms, such as randomized sketching or stochastic optimization, are a promising approach to ease the computational burden in analyzing large datasets. However, randomized algorithms also produce non-deterministic outputs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Zhixiang Zhang , Sokbae Lee , Edgar Dobriban

Sketching is a probabilistic data compression technique that has been largely developed in the computer science community. Numerical operations on big datasets can be intolerably slow; sketching algorithms address this issue by generating a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-04 Daniel Ahfock , William J. Astle , Sylvia Richardson

We consider the problem of estimating the number of distinct elements in a large data set (or, equivalently, the support size of the distribution induced by the data set) from a random sample of its elements. The problem occurs in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Talya Eden , Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal , Tal Wagner

Sketching algorithms use random projections to generate a smaller sketched data set, often for the purposes of modelling. Complete and partial sketch regression estimates can be constructed using information from only the sketched data set…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-07 R. P. Browne , J. L. Andrews

Motivated by the prevalence and success of machine learning, a line of recent work has studied learning-augmented algorithms in the streaming model. These results have shown that for natural and practical oracles implemented with machine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Soham Nagawanshi , Shalini Panthangi , Chen Wang , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Recently there has been increased interest in using machine learning techniques to improve classical algorithms. In this paper we study when it is possible to construct compact, composable sketches for weighted sampling and statistics…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Edith Cohen , Ofir Geri , Rasmus Pagh

To get estimators that work within a certain error bound with high probability, a common strategy is to design one that works with constant probability, and then boost the probability using independent repetitions. Important examples of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Anders Aamand , Debarati Das , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Peter M. R. Rasmussen , Mikkel Thorup

We introduce and study a new data sketch for processing massive datasets. It addresses two common problems: 1) computing a sum given arbitrary filter conditions and 2) identifying the frequent items or heavy hitters in a data set. For the…

Computation · Statistics 2017-09-14 Daniel Ting

We adapt a well known streaming algorithm for approximating item frequencies to the matrix sketching setting. The algorithm receives the rows of a large matrix $A \in \R^{n \times m}$ one after the other in a streaming fashion. It maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Edo Liberty

Identifying heavy hitters and estimating the frequencies of flows are fundamental tasks in various network domains. Existing approaches to this challenge can broadly be categorized into two groups, hashing-based and competing-counter-based.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Rana Shahout , Michael Mitzenmacher

Frequency estimation in streaming data often relies on sketches like Count-Min (CM) to provide approximate answers with sublinear space. However, CM sketches introduce additive errors that disproportionately impact low-frequency elements,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nima Shahbazi , Stavros Sintos , Abolfazl Asudeh
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