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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

Dimensionality reduction via linear sketching is a powerful and widely used technique, but it is known to be vulnerable to adversarial inputs. We study the black-box adversarial setting, where a fixed, hidden sketching matrix $A \in R^{k…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sara Ahmadian , Edith Cohen , Uri Stemmer

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

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

Linear sketches are powerful algorithmic tools that turn an n-dimensional input into a concise lower-dimensional representation via a linear transformation. Such sketches have seen a wide range of applications including norm estimation over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Moritz Hardt , David P. Woodruff

In this paper we consider large-scale smooth optimization problems with multiple linear coupled constraints. Due to the non-separability of the constraints, arbitrary random sketching would not be guaranteed to work. Thus, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Ion Necoara , Martin Takac

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 study classic streaming and sparse recovery problems using deterministic linear sketches, including l1/l1 and linf/l1 sparse recovery problems (the latter also being known as l1-heavy hitters), norm estimation, and approximate inner…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Jelani Nelson , Huy Nguyen , David P. Woodruff

Sketching is widely used in randomized linear algebra for low-rank matrix approximation, column subset selection, and many other problems, and it has gained significant traction in machine learning applications. However, sketching large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Md Taufique Hussain , Suraj Kumar , Mohammad Marufur Rahman , Kathryn Rouse

We introduce a new sub-linear space sketch---the Weight-Median Sketch---for learning compressed linear classifiers over data streams while supporting the efficient recovery of large-magnitude weights in the model. This enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kai Sheng Tai , Vatsal Sharan , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant

CountSketch is a popular dimensionality reduction technique that maps vectors to a lower dimension using randomized linear measurements. The sketch supports recovering $\ell_2$-heavy hitters of a vector (entries with $v[i]^2 \geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Edith Cohen , Xin Lyu , Jelani Nelson , Tamás Sarlós , Moshe Shechner , Uri Stemmer

We study adversarially robust algorithms for insertion-deletion (turnstile) streams, where future updates may depend on past algorithm outputs. While robust algorithms exist for insertion-only streams with only a polylogarithmic overhead in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

We consider least-squares problems with quadratic regularization and propose novel sketching-based iterative methods with an adaptive sketch size. The sketch size can be as small as the effective dimension of the data matrix to guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

Linear sketches are fundamental tools in data stream analytics. They are notable for supporting both approximate frequency queries and heavy hitter detection with bounded trade-offs for error and memory. Importantly, on streams that contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rayne Holland

Linear bandits have become a cornerstone of online learning and sequential decision-making, providing solid theoretical foundations for balancing exploration and exploitation. Within this domain, matrix sketching serves as a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Dongxie Wen , Hanyan Yin , Xiao Zhang , Peng Zhao , Lijun Zhang , Zhewei Wei

Graph sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for processing massive graphs that change over time (i.e., are presented as a dynamic stream of edge updates) over the past few years, starting with the work of Ahn, Guha and McGregor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Michael Kapralov , Aida Mousavifar , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Navid Nouri

We consider solving equality-constrained nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems. This class of problems appears widely in a variety of applications in machine learning and engineering, ranging from constrained deep neural networks, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ilgee Hong , Sen Na , Michael W. Mahoney , Mladen Kolar

Matrices arising in scientific applications frequently admit linear low-rank approximations due to smoothness in the physical and/or temporal domain of the problem. In large-scale problems, computing an optimal low-rank approximation can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Alec Michael Dunton , Alireza Doostan

In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear programming-based approach to fine-tune pre-trained neural networks to improve robustness against adversarial attacks while maintaining high accuracy on clean data. Our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shudian Zhao , Jan Kronqvist

Cardinality sketches are popular data structures that enhance the efficiency of working with large data sets. The sketches are randomized representations of sets that are only of logarithmic size but can support set merges and approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Sara Ahmadian , Edith Cohen
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