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In a recent paper from SODA11 \cite{kminwise} the authors introduced a general framework for exponential time improvement of \minwise based algorithms by defining and constructing almost \kmin independent family of hash functions. Here we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Guy Feigenblat , Ely Porat , Ariel Shiftan

A minimal perfect hash function (MPHF) maps a set of n keys to unique positions {1, ..., n}. Representing an MPHF requires at least 1.44 bits per key. ShockHash is a technique to construct an MPHF and requires just slightly more space. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Stefan Hermann

The problem of fast items retrieval from a fixed collection is often encountered in most computer science areas, from operating system components to databases and user interfaces. We present an approach based on hash tables that focuses on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Dan Domnita , Ciprian Oprisa

The retrieval problem is the problem of associating data with keys in a set. Formally, the data structure must store a function f: U ->{0,1}^r that has specified values on the elements of a given set S, a subset of U, |S|=n, but may have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-27 Martin Dietzfelbinger , Rasmus Pagh

Minwise hashing is a fundamental and one of the most successful hashing algorithm in the literature. Recent advances based on the idea of densification~\cite{Proc:OneHashLSH_ICML14,Proc:Shrivastava_UAI14} have shown that it is possible to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Anshumali Shrivastava

A minimal perfect hash function (MPHF) maps a set of n keys to {1, ..., n} without collisions. Such functions find widespread application e.g. in bioinformatics and databases. In this paper we revisit PTHash - a construction technique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Stefan Hermann , Hans-Peter Lehmann , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Peter Sanders , Stefan Walzer

We study explicit constructions of min-wise hash families and their extension to $k$-min-wise hash families. Informally, a min-wise hash family guarantees that for any fixed subset $X\subseteq[N]$, every element in $X$ has an equal chance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xue Chen , Shengtang Huang , Xin Li

Given an increasing sequence of integers $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ from a universe $\{0,\ldots,u-1\}$, the monotone minimal perfect hash function (MMPHF) for this sequence is a data structure that answers the following rank queries: $rank(x) = i$ if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Dmitry Kosolobov

We show an optimal data-dependent hashing scheme for the approximate near neighbor problem. For an $n$-point data set in a $d$-dimensional space our data structure achieves query time $O(d n^{\rho+o(1)})$ and space $O(n^{1+\rho+o(1)} +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Alexandr Andoni , Ilya Razenshteyn

Cuckoo hashing is a powerful primitive that enables storing items using small space with efficient querying. At a high level, cuckoo hashing maps $n$ items into $b$ entries storing at most $\ell$ items such that each item is placed into one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kevin Yeo

The paradigm of many choices has influenced significantly the design of efficient data structures and, most notably, hash tables. Cuckoo hashing is a technique that extends this concept. There,we are given a table with $n$ locations, and we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Konstantinos Panagiotou

We suggest a method for holding a dictionary data structure, which maps keys to values, in the spirit of Bloom Filters. The space requirements of the dictionary we suggest are much smaller than those of a hashtable. We allow storing n keys,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Ely Porat

The computation of a peeling order in a randomly generated hypergraph is the most time-consuming step in a number of constructions, such as perfect hashing schemes, random $r$-SAT solvers, error-correcting codes, and approximate set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Djamal Belazzougui , Paolo Boldi , Giuseppe Ottaviano , Rossano Venturini , Sebastiano Vigna

With double hashing, for a key $x$, one generates two hash values $f(x)$ and $g(x)$, and then uses combinations $(f(x) +i g(x)) \bmod n$ for $i=0,1,2,...$ to generate multiple hash values in the range $[0,n-1]$ from the initial two. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Michael Mitzenmacher

A minimal perfect hash function (MPHF) bijectively maps a set S of objects to the first |S| integers. It can be used as a building block in databases and data compression. RecSplit [Esposito et al., ALENEX'20] is currently the most space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dominik Bez , Florian Kurpicz , Hans-Peter Lehmann , Peter Sanders

A Monotone Minimal Perfect Hash Function (MMPHF) constructed on a set S of keys is a function that maps each key in S to its rank. On keys not in S, the function returns an arbitrary value. Applications range from databases, search engines,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Paolo Ferragina , Hans-Peter Lehmann , Peter Sanders , Giorgio Vinciguerra

It is known that if a 2-universal hash function $H$ is applied to elements of a {\em block source} $(X_1,...,X_T)$, where each item $X_i$ has enough min-entropy conditioned on the previous items, then the output distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Kai-Min Chung , Salil Vadhan

Let $x \in \R$ be given. As we know the, amount of bits needed to binary code $x$ with given accuracy ($h \in \R$) is approximately $ \m_{h}(x) \approx \log_{2}(\max {1, |\frac{x}{h}|}). $ We consider the problem where we should translate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Przemysław Spurek , Jacek Tabor

Double hashing has recently found more common usage in schemes that use multiple hash functions. In double hashing, for an item $x$, one generates two hash values $f(x)$ and $g(x)$, and then uses combinations $(f(x) +k g(x)) \bmod n$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Michael Mitzenmacher

Hash tables are ubiquitous, and the choice of hash function, which maps a key to a bucket, is key to their performance. We argue that the predominant approach of fixing the hash function for the lifetime of the hash table is suboptimal and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Gábor Melis