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Sketches are commonly used in computer systems and network monitoring tools to provide efficient query executions while maintaining a compact data representation. Switches and routers maintain sketches to track statistical characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Diana Cohen , Roy Friedman , Rana Shahout

We resolve the space complexity of linear sketches for approximating the maximum matching problem in dynamic graph streams where the stream may include both edge insertion and deletion. Specifically, we show that for any $\epsilon > 0$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

We study algorithms in the resettable streaming model, where the value of each key can either be increased or reset to zero. The model is suitable for applications such as active resource monitoring with support for deletions and machine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Edith Cohen , Elena Gribelyuk , Jelani Nelson , Uri Stemmer

A sketch is a probabilistic data structure used to record frequencies of items in a multi-set. Sketches are widely used in various fields, especially those that involve processing and storing data streams. In streaming applications with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Tong Yang , Lingtong Liu , Yibo Yan , Muhammad Shahzad , Yulong Shen , Xiaoming Li , Bin Cui , Gaogang Xie

We give the first L_1-sketching algorithm for integer vectors which produces nearly optimal sized sketches in nearly linear time. This answers the first open problem in the list of open problems from the 2006 IITK Workshop on Algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-15 Jelani Nelson , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the distance between any two large data streams in small- space constraint. This problem is of utmost importance in data intensive monitoring applications where input streams are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Emmanuelle Anceaume , Yann Busnel

In this paper, we take into consideration quantile estimation in data stream models, where every item in the data stream is a key-value pair. Researchers sometimes aim to estimate per-key quantiles (i.e. quantile estimation for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiarui Guo , Qiushi Lyu , Yuhan Wu , Haoyu Li , Zhaoqian Yao , Yuqi Dong , Xiaolin Wang , Bin Cui , Tong Yang

Estimating cardinality, i.e., the number of distinct elements, of a data stream is a fundamental problem in areas like databases, computer networks, and information retrieval. This study delves into a broader scenario where each element…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yiyan Qi , Rundong Li , Pinghui Wang , Yufang Sun , Rui Xing

Estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream is well understood when repeated elements are identical. In modern settings, however, observations are high-dimensional and noisy, so repeated instances of the same object are only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Nikos Tsikouras , Constantine Caramanis , Christos Tzamos

The sliding window model of computation captures scenarios in which data are continually arriving in the form of a stream, and only the most recent $w$ items are used for analysis. In this setting, an algorithm needs to accurately track…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yiping Wang , Yanhao Wang , Cen Chen

Modern stream processing systems often need to track the frequency of distinct keys in a data stream in real-time. Since maintaining exact counts can require a prohibitive amount of memory, many applications rely on compact, probabilistic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Navid Eslami , Ioana O. Bercea , Rasmus Pagh , Niv Dayan

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

We revisit the problem of sketching using approximate leverage scores for matrix least squares problems of the form $\| AX - B \|_F^2$ where the design matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times r}$ is tall and skinny with $N \gg r$. We derive the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Brett W. Larsen , Tamara G. Kolda

The emerging trend of AR/VR places great demands on 3D content. However, most existing software requires expertise and is difficult for novice users to use. In this paper, we aim to create sketch-based modeling tools for user-friendly 3D…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tianrun Chen , Chaotao Ding , Lanyun Zhu , Ying Zang , Yiyi Liao , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun

While traditional data-management systems focus on evaluating single, ad-hoc queries over static data sets in a centralized setting, several emerging applications require (possibly, continuous) answers to queries on dynamic data that is…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Odysseas Papapetrou , Minos Garofalakis , Antonios Deligiannakis

Sketches are probabilistic data structures that can provide approximate results within mathematically proven error bounds while using orders of magnitude less memory than traditional approaches. They are tailored for streaming data analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fatih Taşyaran , Kerem Yıldırır , Kamer Kaya , Mustafa Kemal Taş

In rapid and massive data streams, it is often not possible to estimate the frequency of items with complete accuracy. To perform the operation in a reasonable amount of space and with sufficiently low latency, approximated methods are…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Arijit Khan , Sixing Yan

Stream monitoring is fundamental in many data stream applications, such as financial data trackers, security, anomaly detection, and load balancing. In that respect, quantiles are of particular interest, as they often capture the user's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Rana Shahout , Roy Friedman , Ran Ben Basat

Sketch-based streaming algorithms allow efficient processing of big data. These algorithms use small fixed-size storage to store a summary ("sketch") of the input data, and use probabilistic algorithms to estimate the desired quantity.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Reuven Cohen , Liran Katzir , Aviv Yehezkel

Given a persistence diagram with $n$ points, we give an algorithm that produces a sequence of $n$ persistence diagrams converging in bottleneck distance to the input diagram, the $i$th of which has $i$ distinct (weighted) points and is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Donald R. Sheehy , Siddharth Sheth