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In this work, we study the classic submodular maximization problem under knapsack constraints and beyond. We first present an $(7/16-\varepsilon)$-approximate algorithm for single knapsack constraint, which requires…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Wenxin Li

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

This work provides new results for the analysis of random sequences in terms of $\ell_p$-compressibility. The results characterize the degree in which a random sequence can be approximated by its best $k$-sparse version under different…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-09 Jorge F. Silva

To accelerate kernel methods, we propose a near input sparsity time algorithm for sampling the high-dimensional feature space implicitly defined by a kernel transformation. Our main contribution is an importance sampling method for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-15 David P. Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

The maximum likelihood estimation is computationally demanding for large datasets, particularly when the likelihood function includes integrals. Subsampling can reduce the computational burden, but it often results in efficiency loss.This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-27 Miaomiao Su , Qihua Wang , Ruoyu Wang

The traditional requirement for a randomized streaming algorithm is just {\em one-shot}, i.e., algorithm should be correct (within the stated $\eps$-error bound) at the end of the stream. In this paper, we study the {\em tracking} problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Zengfeng Huang , Wai Ming Tai , Ke Yi

In recent years, there have been significant advances in efficiently solving $\ell_s$-regression using linear system solvers and $\ell_2$-regression [Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva, J. ACM'24]. Would efficient smoothed $\ell_p$-norm solvers lead…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Arun Jambulapati , Aaron Sidford

We provide the first nearly-linear time algorithm for approximating $\ell_{q \rightarrow p}$-norms of non-negative matrices, for $q \geq p \geq 1$. Our algorithm returns a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation to the matrix norm in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Étienne Objois , Adrian Vladu

A classic problem in unsupervised learning and data analysis is to find simpler and easy-to-visualize representations of the data that preserve its essential properties. A widely-used method to preserve the underlying hierarchical structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Karthik C. S. , Guillaume Lagarde

In recent years we have witnessed an increase on the development of methods for submodular optimization, which have been motivated by the wide applicability of submodular functions in real-world data-science problems. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Guangyi Zhang , Nikolaj Tatti , Aristides Gionis

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

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a maximum weight set subject to a $k$-extendible constraint in the data stream model. The only non-trivial algorithm known for this problem to date---to the best of our knowledge---is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Moran Feldman , Ran Haba

The subspace approximation problem Subspace($k$,$p$) asks for a $k$-dimensional linear subspace that fits a given set of points optimally, where the error for fitting is a generalization of the least squares fit and uses the $\ell_{p}$ norm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Amit Deshpande , Kasturi Varadarajan , Madhur Tulsiani , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

The profile of a sample is the multiset of its symbol frequencies. We show that for samples of discrete distributions, profile entropy is a fundamental measure unifying the concepts of estimation, inference, and compression. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Yi Hao , Alon Orlitsky

Sparsity finds applications in areas as diverse as statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. Computations over sparse structures are less complex compared to their dense counterparts, and their storage consumes less space. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Omar M. Sleem , M. E. Ashour , N. S. Aybat , Constantino M. Lagoa

Building on existing $hp$-adaptive algorithms driven by equilibrated-flux estimators from [ESAIM Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 57 (2023), 329--366] and the references therein, we propose a novel $h$-adaptive algorithm for a fixed polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Zhaonan Dong , Gregor Gantner , Martin Vohralík

Suppose we have a memory storing $0$s and $1$s and we want to estimate the frequency of $1$s by sampling. We want to do this I/O-efficiently, exploiting that each read gives a block of $B$ bits at unit cost; not just one bit. If the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Shyam Narayanan , Václav Rozhoň , Jakub Tětek , Mikkel Thorup

In many emerging applications, data streams are monitored in a network environment. Due to limited communication bandwidth and other resource constraints, a critical and practical demand is to online compress data streams continuously with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-01 Emad Soroush , Kui Wu , Jian Pei

We present a smooth probabilistic reformulation of $\ell_0$ regularized regression that does not require Monte Carlo sampling and allows for the computation of exact gradients, facilitating rapid convergence to local optima of the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Lukas Silvester Barth , Paulo von Petersenn

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