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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

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

An $\varepsilon$-approximate quantile sketch over a stream of $n$ inputs approximates the rank of any query point $q$ - that is, the number of input points less than $q$ - up to an additive error of $\varepsilon n$, generally with some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Nicholas Schiefer , Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , Shyam Narayanan , Sandeep Silwal , Tal Wagner

We present an algorithm for the maximum matching problem in dynamic (insertion-deletions) streams with *asymptotically optimal* space complexity: for any $n$-vertex graph, our algorithm with high probability outputs an $\alpha$-approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Sepehr Assadi , Vihan Shah

We show that both clustering and subspace embeddings can be performed in the streaming model with the same asymptotic efficiency as in the central/offline setting. For $(k, z)$-clustering in the streaming model, we achieve a number of words…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Liudeng Wang , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

We study streaming algorithms for the fundamental geometric problem of computing the cost of the Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) on an $n$-point set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. In the streaming model, the points in $X$ can be added and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Xi Chen , Rajesh Jayaram , Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

A streaming algorithm is adversarially robust if it is guaranteed to perform correctly even in the presence of an adaptive adversary. Recently, several sophisticated frameworks for robustification of classical streaming algorithms have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Talya Eden , Krzysztof Onak

The generalized smooth condition, $(L_{0},L_{1})$-smoothness, has triggered people's interest since it is more realistic in many optimization problems shown by both empirical and theoretical evidence. Two recent works established the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zijian Liu , Srikanth Jagabathula , Zhengyuan Zhou

In this paper, we study streaming algorithms that minimize the number of changes made to their internal state (i.e., memory contents). While the design of streaming algorithms typically focuses on minimizing space and update time, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

The computational equivalence between approximate counting and sampling is well established for polynomial-time algorithms. The most efficient general reduction from counting to sampling is achieved via simulated annealing, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 David G. Harris , Vladimir Kolmogorov , Hongyang Liu , Yitong Yin , Yiyao Zhang

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan

The majority of streaming problems are defined and analyzed in a static setting, where the data stream is any worst-case sequence of insertions and deletions that is fixed in advance. However, many real-world applications require a more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

Estimating quantiles is one of the foundational problems of data sketching. Given $n$ elements $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ from some universe of size $U$ arriving in a data stream, a quantile sketch estimates the rank of any element with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Meghal Gupta , Mihir Singhal , Hongxun Wu

Grouping together similar elements in datasets is a common task in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we study streaming algorithms for correlation clustering, where each pair of elements is labeled either similar or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mélanie Cambus , Fabian Kuhn , Etna Lindy , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

We revisit the problem of estimating the profile (also known as the rarity) in the data stream model. Given a sequence of $m$ elements from a universe of size $n$, its profile is a vector $\phi$ whose $i$-th entry $\phi_i$ represents the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk , David P. Woodruff

We study the problem of extracting a small subset of representative items from a large data stream. In many data mining and machine learning applications such as social network analysis and recommender systems, this problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yanhao Wang , Francesco Fabbri , Michael Mathioudakis

We design a generic method for reducing the task of finding weighted matchings to that of finding short augmenting paths in unweighted graphs. This method enables us to provide efficient implementations for approximating weighted matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Buddhima Gamlath , Sagar Kale , Slobodan Mitrović , Ola Svensson

The \emph{$\ell_2$ tracking problem} is the task of obtaining a streaming algorithm that, given access to a stream of items $a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots$ from a universe $[n]$, outputs at each time $t$ an estimate to the $\ell_2$ norm of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Chi-Ning Chou , Zhixian Lei , Preetum Nakkiran

We present a simple deterministic single-pass $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model. This improves upon the currently best known approximation ratio of $(4+\epsilon)$. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Ami Paz , Gregory Schwartzman

As data volume grows extensively, data profiling helps to extract metadata of large-scale data. However, one kind of metadata, order statistics, is difficult to be computed because they are not mergeable or incremental. Thus, the limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Zhiwei Chen , Aoqian Zhang