
arXiv: 1511.00661
Given a stream $p_1, \ldots, p_m$ of items from a universe $\mathcal{U}$, which, without loss of generality we identify with the set of integers $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$, we consider the problem of returning all $\ell_2$-heavy hitters, i.e., those items $j$ for which $f_j \geq ��\sqrt{F_2}$, where $f_j$ is the number of occurrences of item $j$ in the stream, and $F_2 = \sum_{i \in [n]} f_i^2$. Such a guarantee is considerably stronger than the $\ell_1$-guarantee, which finds those $j$ for which $f_j \geq ��m$. In 2002, Charikar, Chen, and Farach-Colton suggested the {\sf CountSketch} data structure, which finds all such $j$ using $��(\log^2 n)$ bits of space (for constant $��> 0$). The only known lower bound is $��(\log n)$ bits of space, which comes from the need to specify the identities of the items found. In this paper we show it is possible to achieve $O(\log n \log \log n)$ bits of space for this problem. Our techniques, based on Gaussian processes, lead to a number of other new results for data streams, including (1) The first algorithm for estimating $F_2$ simultaneously at all points in a stream using only $O(\log n\log\log n)$ bits of space, improving a natural union bound and the algorithm of Huang, Tai, and Yi (2014). (2) A way to estimate the $\ell_{\infty}$ norm of a stream up to additive error $��\sqrt{F_2}$ with $O(\log n\log\log n)$ bits of space, resolving Open Question 3 from the IITK 2006 list for insertion only streams.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
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