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Learning parameters from voluminous data can be prohibitive in terms of memory and computational requirements. We propose a "compressive learning" framework where we estimate model parameters from a sketch of the training data. This sketch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Nicolas Keriven , Anthony Bourrier , Rémi Gribonval , Patrick Pérez

Cardinality estimation is perhaps the simplest non-trivial statistical problem that can be solved via sketching. Industrially-deployed sketches like HyperLogLog, MinHash, and PCSA are mergeable, which means that large data sets can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Seth Pettie , Dingyu Wang , Longhui Yin

Cardinality sketches are compact data structures that efficiently estimate the number of distinct elements across multiple queries while minimizing storage, communication, and computational costs. However, recent research has shown that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Edith Cohen , Mihir Singhal , Uri Stemmer

A key need in different disciplines is to perform analytics over fast-paced data streams, similar in nature to the traditional OLAP analytics in relational databases i.e., with filters and aggregates. Storing unbounded streams, however, is…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Wieger R. Punter , Odysseas Papapetrou , Minos Garofalakis

With the exponentially growing Internet traffic, sketch data structure with a probabilistic algorithm has been expected to be an alternative solution for non-compromised (non-selective) security monitoring. While facilitating counting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Seungsam Yang , Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Mirnajafizadeh , Sian Kim , Rhongho Jang , DaeHun Nyang

We introduce Density sketches (DS): a succinct online summary of the data distribution. DS can accurately estimate point wise probability density. Interestingly, DS also provides a capability to sample unseen novel data from the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Aditya Desai , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

The challenge of estimating similarity between sets has been a significant concern in data science, finding diverse applications across various domains. However, previous approaches, such as MinHash, have predominantly centered around…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Fenghao Dong , Yang He , Yutong Liang , Zirui Liu , Yuhan Wu , Peiqing Chen , Tong Yang

Sketches are commonly used in computer systems and network monitoring tools to provide efficient query executions while maintaining a compact data representation. Switches and routers maintain sketches to track statistical characteristics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Diana Cohen , Roy Friedman , Rana Shahout

Many real-world matrix datasets arrive as high-throughput vector streams, making it impractical to store or process them in their entirety. To enable real-time analytics under limited computational, memory, and communication resources,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hanyan Yin , Dongxie Wen , Jiajun Li , Zhewei Wei , Xiao Zhang , Peng Zhao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We propose OverSketch, an approximate algorithm for distributed matrix multiplication in serverless computing. OverSketch leverages ideas from matrix sketching and high-performance computing to enable cost-efficient multiplication that is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Vipul Gupta , Shusen Wang , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search and Approximate Kernel Density Estimation (A-KDE) are fundamental problems at the core of modern machine learning, with broad applications in data analysis, information systems, and large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ved Danait , Srijan Das , Sujoy Bhore

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is essential for identifying malicious activities, fraud, and unexpected behaviors in real-world systems such as cybersecurity and power grids. However, existing approaches struggle with scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

In this paper, we take into consideration quantile estimation in data stream models, where every item in the data stream is a key-value pair. Researchers sometimes aim to estimate per-key quantiles (i.e. quantile estimation for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiarui Guo , Qiushi Lyu , Yuhan Wu , Haoyu Li , Zhaoqian Yao , Yuqi Dong , Xiaolin Wang , Bin Cui , Tong Yang

Large machine learning models achieve unprecedented performance on various tasks and have evolved as the go-to technique. However, deploying these compute and memory hungry models on resource constraint environments poses new challenges. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Zichang Liu , Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Sketches have shown high accuracy in multi-way join cardinality estimation, a critical problem in cost-based query optimization. Accurately estimating the cardinality of a join operation -- analogous to its computational cost -- allows the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Brian Tsan , Abylay Amanbayev , Asoke Datta , Florin Rusu

Document sketching using Jaccard similarity has been a workable effective technique in reducing near-duplicates in Web page and image search results, and has also proven useful in file system synchronization, compression and learning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Bernhard Haeupler , Mark Manasse , Kunal Talwar

This paper develops conformal inference methods to construct a confidence interval for the frequency of a queried object in a very large discrete data set, based on a sketch with a lower memory footprint. This approach requires no knowledge…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-17 Matteo Sesia , Stefano Favaro , Edgar Dobriban

Quantile regression is a fundamental problem in statistical learning motivated by a need to quantify uncertainty in predictions, or to model a diverse population without being overly reductive. For instance, epidemiological forecasts, cost…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-18 Rasool Fakoor , Taesup Kim , Jonas Mueller , Alexander J. Smola , Ryan J. Tibshirani

Approximation of non-linear kernels using random feature maps has become a powerful technique for scaling kernel methods to large datasets. We propose $\textit{Tensor Sketch}$, an efficient random feature map for approximating polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ninh Pham , Rasmus Pagh

Many datasets such as market basket data, text or hypertext documents, and sensor observations recorded in different locations or time periods, are modeled as a collection of sets over a ground set of keys. We are interested in basic…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-03-05 Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan