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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

Random sketching is a dimensionality reduction technique that approximately preserves norms and singular values up to some $O(1)$ distortion factor with high probability. The most popular sketches in literature are the Gaussian sketch and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Andrew J. Higgins , Erik G. Boman , Ichitaro Yamazaki

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 study how to sparsify connectivity in graphs under a tight deletion budget. Given a graph $G$ and integers $k,x \ge 0$, Critical Node Cut (CNC) asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices so that the number of remaining unordered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

The efficient estimation of frequency moments of a data stream in one-pass using limited space and time per item is one of the most fundamental problem in data stream processing. An especially important estimation is to find the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Gokarna Sharma , Costas Busch , Srikanta Tirthapura

Randomized algorithms, such as randomized sketching or stochastic optimization, are a promising approach to ease the computational burden in analyzing large datasets. However, randomized algorithms also produce non-deterministic outputs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Zhixiang Zhang , Sokbae Lee , Edgar Dobriban

In all state-of-the-art sketching and coreset techniques for clustering, as well as in the best known fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithms, randomness plays a key role. For the classic $k$-median and $k$-means problems, there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We study "space efficient" FPT algorithms for graph problems with limited memory. Let n be the size of the input graph and k be the parameter. We present algorithms that run in time f(k)*poly(n) and use g(k)*polylog(n) working space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sheikh Shakil Akhtar , Pranabendu Misra , Geevarghese Philip

We initiate a broad study of classical problems in the streaming model with insertions and deletions in the setting where we allow the approximation factor $\alpha$ to be much larger than $1$. Such algorithms can use significantly less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Yuheng Zhang

Nowadays, frequent pattern mining (FPM) on large graphs receives increasing attention, since it is crucial to a variety of applications, e.g., social analysis. Informally, the FPM problem is defined as finding all the patterns in a large…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Xin Wang , Zhuo Lan , Yu-Ang He , Yang Wang , Zhi-Gui Liu , Wen-Bo Xie

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

Graphons, as limit objects of dense graph sequences, play a central role in the statistical analysis of network data. However, existing graphon estimation methods often struggle with scalability to large networks and resolution-independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Reza Ramezanpour , Victor M. Tenorio , Antonio G. Marques , Ashutosh Sabharwal , Santiago Segarra

This paper argues that randomized linear sketching is a natural tool for on-the-fly compression of data matrices that arise from large-scale scientific simulations and data collection. The technical contribution consists in a new algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

Provenance sketches, light-weight indexes that record what data is needed (is relevant) for answering a query, can significantly improve performance of important classes of queries (e.g., HAVING and top-k queries). Given a horizontal…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ziyu Liu , Boris Glavic

There is an increasing need for algorithms that can accurately detect changepoints in long time-series, or equivalent, data. Many common approaches to detecting changepoints, for example based on penalised likelihood or minimum description…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-08 Robert Maidstone , Toby Hocking , Guillem Rigaill , Paul Fearnhead

We consider a sketched implementation of the finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on high-dimensional models. Motivated by applications in real-time simulation and prediction we propose an algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Robert Lung , Yue Wu , Dimitris Kamilis , Nick Polydorides

We consider the problem of enumerating optimal solutions for two hypergraph $k$-partitioning problems -- namely, Hypergraph-$k$-Cut and Minmax-Hypergraph-$k$-Partition. The input in hypergraph $k$-partitioning problems is a hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Weihang Wang

Large-scale distributed training of neural networks is often limited by network bandwidth, wherein the communication time overwhelms the local computation time. Motivated by the success of sketching methods in sub-linear/streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Nikita Ivkin , Daniel Rothchild , Enayat Ullah , Vladimir Braverman , Ion Stoica , Raman Arora

Sketching uses randomized Hash functions for dimensionality reduction and acceleration. The existing sketching methods, such as count sketch (CS), tensor sketch (TS), and higher-order count sketch (HCS), either suffer from low accuracy or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xingyu Cao , Jiani Liu

We consider the problem of sequential (online) estimation of a single change point in a piecewise linear regression model under a Gaussian setup. We demonstrate that certain CUSUM-type statistics attain the minimax optimal rates for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Annika Hüselitz , Housen Li , Axel Munk
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