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Recent progress in (semi-)streaming algorithms for monotone submodular function maximization has led to tight results for a simple cardinality constraint. However, current techniques fail to give a similar understanding for natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Moran Feldman , Paul Liu , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

We prove upper bounds on the graph diameters of polytopes in two settings. The first is a worst-case bound for polytopes defined by integer constraints in terms of the height of the integers and certain subdeterminants of the constraint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Hariharan Narayanan , Rikhav Shah , Nikhil Srivastava

In this paper we present improved bounds for approximating maximum matchings in bipartite graphs in the streaming model. First, we consider the question of how well maximum matching can be approximated in a single pass over the input using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Michael Kapralov

We study streaming algorithms for the maximum directed cut problem. The edges of an $n$-vertex directed graph arrive one by one in an arbitrary order, and the goal is to estimate the value of the maximum directed cut using a single pass and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante , Mohammad Saneian

We present the first semi-streaming PTAS for the minimum feedback arc set problem on directed tournaments in a small number of passes. Namely, we obtain a $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation in polynomial time $O \left( \text{poly}(n)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Anubhav Baweja , Justin Jia , David P. Woodruff

We present an algorithm for computing $F_p$, the $p$th moment of an $n$-dimensional frequency vector of a data stream, for $2 < p < \log (n) $, to within $1\pm \epsilon$ factors, $\epsilon \in [n^{-1/p},1]$ with high constant probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Sumit Ganguly

While in many graph mining applications it is crucial to handle a stream of updates efficiently in terms of {\em both} time and space, not much was known about achieving such type of algorithm. In this paper we study this issue for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Estimating frequency moments of data streams is a very well studied problem and tight bounds are known on the amount of space that is necessary and sufficient when the stream is adversarially ordered. Recently, motivated by various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-19 Alexandr Andoni , Andrew McGregor , Krzysztof Onak , Rina Panigrahy

We study the maximum constraint satisfaction problem, Max-CSP, in the streaming setting. Given $n$ variables, the constraints arrive sequentially in an arbitrary order, with each constraint involving only a small subset of the variables.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante

In this paper, we show that if the optimization function is restricted-strongly-convex (RSC) and restricted-smooth (RSM) -- a rich subclass of weakly submodular functions -- then a streaming algorithm with constant factor approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Amit Dhurandhar

Submodular maximization is one of the central topics in combinatorial optimization. It has found numerous applications in the real world. Streaming algorithms for submodule maximization have gained attention in recent years, allowing for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Shuo Zhang

We consider the problem of maximizing a nonnegative submodular set function $f:2^{\mathcal{N}} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+$ subject to a $p$-matchoid constraint in the single-pass streaming setting. Previous work in this context has considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Chandra Chekuri , Shalmoli Gupta , Kent Quanrud

Tracking and approximating data matrices in streaming fashion is a fundamental challenge. The problem requires more care and attention when data comes from multiple distributed sites, each receiving a stream of data. This paper considers…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Mina Ghashami , Jeff M. Phillips , Feifei Li

Estimating the second frequency moment $F_2$ of a data stream up to a $(1 \pm \varepsilon)$ factor is a central problem in the streaming literature. For errors $\varepsilon > \Omega(1/\sqrt{n})$, the tight bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Naomi Green-Maimon , Or Zamir

In this paper we propose a new algorithm for streaming principal component analysis. With limited memory, small devices cannot store all the samples in the high-dimensional regime. Streaming principal component analysis aims to find the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 Puyudi Yang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jane-Ling Wang

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

We study the problem of constructing hypergraph cut sparsifiers in the streaming model where a hypergraph on $n$ vertices is revealed either via an arbitrary sequence of hyperedge insertions alone ({\em insertion-only} streaming model) or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman , Madhu Sudan

Most known algorithms in the streaming model of computation aim to approximate a single function such as an $\ell_p$-norm. In 2009, Nelson [\url{https://sublinear.info}, Open Problem 30] asked if it possible to design \emph{universal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Vladimir Braverman , Robert Krauthgamer , Lin F. Yang

We study algorithms for the sliding-window model, an important variant of the data-stream model, in which the goal is to compute some function of a fixed-length suffix of the stream. We extend the smooth-histogram framework of Braverman and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Robert Krauthgamer , David Reitblat

We study the maximum matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming setting. In this problem, the edges of an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph $G=(V, E)$ arrive in a stream one by one and in a random order. The goal is to have a single pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad