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Semi-Streaming Algorithms for Annotated Graph Streams Thaler, Justin graph streams stream verification annotated data streams probabilistic proof systems Considerable effort has been devoted to the development of streaming algorithms for analyzing massive graphs. Unfortunately, many results have been negative, establishing that a wide variety of problems require Omega(n^2) space to solve. One of the few bright spots has been the development of semi-streaming algorithms for a handful of graph problems - these algorithms use space O(n*polylog(n)). In the annotated data streaming model of Chakrabarti et al. [Chakrabarti/Cormode/Goyal/Thaler, ACM Trans. on Alg. 2014], a computationally limited client wants to compute some property of a massive input, but lacks the resources to store even a small fraction of the input, and hence cannot perform the desired computation locally. The client therefore accesses a powerful but untrusted service provider, who not only performs the requested computation, but also proves that the answer is correct. We consider the notion of semi-streaming algorithms for annotated graph streams (semistreaming annotation schemes for short). These are protocols in which both the client's space usage and the length of the proof are O(n*polylog(n)). We give evidence that semi-streaming annotation schemes represent a more robust solution concept than does the standard semi-streaming model. On the positive side, we give semi-streaming annotation schemes for two dynamic graph problems that are intractable in the standard model: (exactly) counting triangles, and (exactly) computing maximum matchings. The former scheme answers a question of Cormode [Cormode, Problem 47]. On the negative side, we identify for the first time two natural graph problems (connectivity and bipartiteness in a certain edge update model) that can be solved in the standard semi-streaming model, but cannot be solved by annotation schemes of "sub-semi-streaming" cost. That is, these problems are as hard in the annotations model as they are in the standard model. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Justin Thaler 2016 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 55, 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.59 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-62247 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.59 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode