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A key need in different disciplines is to perform analytics over fast-paced data streams, similar in nature to the traditional OLAP analytics in relational databases i.e., with filters and aggregates. Storing unbounded streams, however, is…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Wieger R. Punter , Odysseas Papapetrou , Minos Garofalakis

\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

Kernel density estimation is a simple and effective method that lies at the heart of many important machine learning applications. Unfortunately, kernel methods scale poorly for large, high dimensional datasets. Approximate kernel density…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Linear sketching algorithms have been widely used for processing large-scale distributed and streaming datasets. Their popularity is largely due to the fact that linear sketches can be naturally composed in the distributed model and be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jiecao Chen , Qin Zhang

Network monitoring is vital in modern clouds and data center networks for traffic engineering, network diagnosis, network intrusion detection, which need diverse traffic statistics ranging from flow size distributions to heavy hitters. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yongquan Fu , Dongsheng Li , Siqi Shen , Yiming Zhang , Kai Chen

This paper develops conformal inference methods to construct a confidence interval for the frequency of a queried object in a very large discrete data set, based on a sketch with a lower memory footprint. This approach requires no knowledge…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-17 Matteo Sesia , Stefano Favaro , Edgar Dobriban

Many real-world matrix datasets arrive as high-throughput vector streams, making it impractical to store or process them in their entirety. To enable real-time analytics under limited computational, memory, and communication resources,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hanyan Yin , Dongxie Wen , Jiajun Li , Zhewei Wei , Xiao Zhang , Peng Zhao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Count-sketch is a popular matrix sketching algorithm that can produce a sketch of an input data matrix X in O(nnz(X))time where nnz(X) denotes the number of non-zero entries in X. The sketched matrix will be much smaller than X while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuhan Wang , Zijian Lei , Liang Lan

Continual Learning (CL) aims to incrementally acquire new knowledge while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Within this setting, Online Continual Learning (OCL) focuses on updating models promptly and incrementally from single or small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Giovanni Donghi , Luca Pasa , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi , Nicolò Navarin

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

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

The quadratic time and memory complexity inherent to self-attention mechanisms, with respect to sequence length, presents a critical computational bottleneck in the training and deployment of large-scale Transformer-based language models.…

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The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

Sketching is a dimensionality reduction technique where one compresses a matrix by linear combinations that are chosen at random. A line of work has shown how to sketch the Hessian to speed up each iteration in a second order method, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

Range aggregate queries (RAQs) are an integral part of many real-world applications, where, often, fast and approximate answers for the queries are desired. Recent work has studied answering RAQs using machine learning (ML) models, where a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sepanta Zeighami , Cyrus Shahabi , Vatsal Sharan

Low-rank approximation in data streams is a fundamental and significant task in computing science, machine learning and statistics. Multiple streaming algorithms have emerged over years and most of them are inspired by randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Cuiyu Liu , Chuanfu Xiao , Mingshuo Ding , Chao Yang

The challenge of estimating similarity between sets has been a significant concern in data science, finding diverse applications across various domains. However, previous approaches, such as MinHash, have predominantly centered around…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Fenghao Dong , Yang He , Yutong Liang , Zirui Liu , Yuhan Wu , Peiqing Chen , Tong Yang

Sketching algorithms have recently proven to be a powerful approach both for designing low-space streaming algorithms as well as fast polynomial time approximation schemes (PTAS). In this work, we develop new techniques to extend the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Gregory Dexter , Petros Drineas , David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

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

The detection of anomalies in non-stationary time-series streams is a critical but challenging task across numerous industrial and scientific domains. Traditional models, trained offline, suffer significant performance degradation when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ashok Devireddy , Shunping Huang