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The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joshua Brakensiek , Neng Huang , Aaron Potechin , Uri Zwick

We study the streaming complexity of $k$-counter approximate counting. In the $k$-counter approximate counting problem, we are given an input string in $[k]^n$, and we are required to approximate the number of each $j$'s ($j\in[k]$) in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yichuan Wang

Streaming graph partitioners enable resource-efficient and massively scalable partitioning, but one-pass assignment heuristics are highly sensitive to stream order and often yield substantially higher edge cuts than in-memory methods. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Linus Baumgärtner , Adil Chhabra , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

We study the maximum weight matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming model and in the robust communication model. Unlike many other sublinear models, in these two frameworks, there is a large gap between the guarantees of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Diba Hashemi , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

In a recent breakthrough, Paz and Schwartzman (SODA'17) presented a single-pass ($2+\epsilon$)-approximation algorithm for the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model. Their algorithm uses $O(n\log^2 n)$ bits of space,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Mohsen Ghaffari , David Wajc

This paper is devoted to the distributed complexity of finding an approximation of the maximum cut in graphs. A classical algorithm consists in letting each vertex choose its side of the cut uniformly at random. This does not require any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

The degree distribution of a graph $G=(V,E)$, $|V|=n$, $|E|=m$ is one of the most fundamental objects of study in the analysis of graphs as it embodies relationship among entities. In particular, an important derived distribution from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Arijit Bishnu , Debarshi Chanda , Gopinath Mishra

We initiate the investigation of the parameterized complexity of Diameter and Connectivity in the streaming paradigm. On the positive end, we show that knowing a vertex cover of size $k$ allows for algorithms in the Adjacency List (AL)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jelle J. Oostveen , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We give a new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for sparsest cut problem on graphs where small sets expand significantly more than the sparsest cut (sets of size $n/r$ expand by a factor $\sqrt{\log n\log r}$ bigger, for some small $r$; this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ali Kemal Sinop

Set cover, over a universe of size $n$, may be modelled as a data-streaming problem, where the $m$ sets that comprise the instance are to be read one by one. A semi-streaming algorithm is allowed only $O(n\, \mathrm{poly}\{\log n, \log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Amit Chakrabarti , Anthony Wirth

We give near-optimal algorithms for computing an ellipsoidal rounding of a convex polytope whose vertices are given in a stream. The approximation factor is linear in the dimension (as in John's theorem) and only loses an excess logarithmic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yury Makarychev , Naren Sarayu Manoj , Max Ovsiankin

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

In this paper, we propose a novel framework that converts streaming algorithms for monotone submodular maximization into streaming algorithms for non-monotone submodular maximization. This reduction readily leads to the currently tightest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Ran Haba , Ehsan Kazemi , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, the NP-hard Max-Cut problem asks for a node bipartition such that the sum of edge weights joining the different partitions is maximized. We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Markus Chimani , Christine Dahn , Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Alexander Nover

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

The semi-streaming model is a variant of the streaming model frequently used for the computation of graph problems. It allows the edges of an $n$-node input graph to be read sequentially in $p$ passes using $\tilde{O}(n)$ space. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi-Jun Chang , Martin Farach-Colton , Tsan-Sheng Hsu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We provide the first streaming algorithm for computing a provable approximation to the $k$-means of sparse Big data. Here, sparse Big Data is a set of $n$ vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where each vector has $O(1)$ non-zeroes entries, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Artem Barger , Dan Feldman

We design and implement two single-pass semi-streaming algorithms for the maximum weight $k$-disjoint matching ($k$-DM) problem. Given an integer $k$, the $k$-DM problem is to find $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint matchings such that the sum of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 S M Ferdous , Bhargav Samineni , Alex Pothen , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Bala Krishnamoorthy

We initiate the study of the Maximal Matching problem in bounded-deletion graph streams. In this setting, a graph $G$ is revealed as an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions, where the number of insertions is unrestricted but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Sanjeev Khanna , Christian Konrad , Jacques Dark