12 Search Results for "Zhong, Peilin"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.40
A Simple and Robust Protocol for Distributed Counting

Authors: Edith Cohen, Moshe Shechner, and Uri Stemmer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)

Abstract
We revisit the distributed counting problem, where a server must continuously approximate the total number of events occurring across k sites while minimizing communication. The communication complexity of this problem is known to be Θ(k/(ε)log N) for deterministic protocols. Huang, Yi, and Zhang (2012) showed that randomization can reduce this to Θ((√k)/ε log N), but their analysis is restricted to the oblivious setting, where the stream of events is independent of the protocol’s outputs. Xiong, Zhu, and Huang (2023) presented a robust protocol for distributed counting that removes the oblivious assumption. However, their communication complexity is suboptimal by a polylog(k) factor and their protocol is substantially more complex than the oblivious protocol of Huang et al. (2012). This left open a natural question: could it be that the simple protocol of Huang et al. (2012) is already robust? We resolve this question with two main contributions. First, we show that the protocol of Huang et al. (2012) is itself not robust by constructing an explicit adaptive attack that forces it to lose its accuracy. Second, we present a new, surprisingly simple, robust protocol for distributed counting that achieves the optimal communication complexity of O((√k)/ε log N). Our protocol is simpler than that of Xiong et al. (2023), perhaps even simpler than that of Huang et al. (2012), and is the first to match the optimal oblivious complexity in the adaptive setting.
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Edith Cohen, Moshe Shechner, and Uri Stemmer. A Simple and Robust Protocol for Distributed Counting. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 40:1-40:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{cohen_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.40,
  author =	{Cohen, Edith and Shechner, Moshe and Stemmer, Uri},
  title =	{{A Simple and Robust Protocol for Distributed Counting}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253272},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed Streaming, Adversarial Streaming}
}
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Invited Talk
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.2
Securing Dynamic Data: A Primer on Differentially Private Data Structures (Invited Talk)

Authors: Monika Henzinger and Roodabeh Safavi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)

Abstract
We give an introduction into differential privacy in the dynamic setting, called the continual observation setting.
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Monika Henzinger and Roodabeh Safavi. Securing Dynamic Data: A Primer on Differentially Private Data Structures (Invited Talk). In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{henzinger_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.2,
  author =	{Henzinger, Monika and Safavi, Roodabeh},
  title =	{{Securing Dynamic Data: A Primer on Differentially Private Data Structures}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244702},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential privacy, continual observation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.58
Streaming Diameter of High-Dimensional Points

Authors: Magnús M. Halldórsson, Nicolaos Matsakis, and Pavel Veselý

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)

Abstract
We improve the space bound for streaming approximation of Diameter but also of Farthest Neighbor queries, Minimum Enclosing Ball and its Coreset, in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. In particular, our deterministic streaming algorithms store 𝒪(ε^{-2}log(1/(ε))) points. This improves by a factor of ε^{-1} the previous space bound of Agarwal and Sharathkumar (SODA 2010), while retaining the state-of-the-art approximation guarantees, such as √2+ε for Diameter or Farthest Neighbor queries, and also offering a simpler and more complete argument. Moreover, we show that storing Ω(ε^{-1}) points is necessary for a streaming (√2+ε)-approximation of Farthest Pair and Farthest Neighbor queries.
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Magnús M. Halldórsson, Nicolaos Matsakis, and Pavel Veselý. Streaming Diameter of High-Dimensional Points. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 58:1-58:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{halldorsson_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.58,
  author =	{Halld\'{o}rsson, Magn\'{u}s M. and Matsakis, Nicolaos and Vesel\'{y}, Pavel},
  title =	{{Streaming Diameter of High-Dimensional Points}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{58:1--58:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.58},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245263},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.58},
  annote =	{Keywords: streaming algorithm, farthest pair, diameter, minimum enclosing ball, coreset}
}
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RANDOM
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.40
Sublinear Space Graph Algorithms in the Continual Release Model

Authors: Alessandro Epasto, Quanquan C. Liu, Tamalika Mukherjee, and Felix Zhou

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)

Abstract
The graph continual release model of differential privacy seeks to produce differentially private solutions to graph problems under a stream of edge updates where new private solutions are released after each update. Thus far, previously known edge-differentially private algorithms for most graph problems including densest subgraph and matchings in the continual release setting only output real-value estimates (not vertex subset solutions) and do not use sublinear space. Instead, they rely on computing exact graph statistics on the input [Hendrik Fichtenberger et al., 2021; Shuang Song et al., 2018]. In this paper, we leverage sparsification to address the above shortcomings for edge-insertion streams. Our edge-differentially private algorithms use sublinear space with respect to the number of edges in the graph while some also achieve sublinear space in the number of vertices in the graph. In addition, for the densest subgraph problem, we also output edge-differentially private vertex subset solutions; no previous graph algorithms in the continual release model output such subsets. We make novel use of assorted sparsification techniques from the non-private streaming and static graph algorithms literature to achieve new results in the sublinear space, continual release setting. This includes algorithms for densest subgraph, maximum matching, as well as the first continual release k-core decomposition algorithm. We also develop a novel sparse level data structure for k-core decomposition that may be of independent interest. To complement our insertion-only algorithms, we conclude with polynomial additive error lower bounds for edge-privacy in the fully dynamic setting, where only logarithmic lower bounds were previously known.
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Alessandro Epasto, Quanquan C. Liu, Tamalika Mukherjee, and Felix Zhou. Sublinear Space Graph Algorithms in the Continual Release Model. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 40:1-40:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{epasto_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.40,
  author =	{Epasto, Alessandro and Liu, Quanquan C. and Mukherjee, Tamalika and Zhou, Felix},
  title =	{{Sublinear Space Graph Algorithms in the Continual Release Model}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244064},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Privacy, Continual Release, Densest Subgraph, k-Core Decomposition, Maximum Matching}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.17
Dynamic Streaming Algorithms for Geometric Independent Set

Authors: Timothy M. Chan and Yuancheng Yu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 349, 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)

Abstract
We present the first space-efficient, fully dynamic streaming algorithm for computing a constant-factor approximation of the maximum independent set size of n axis-aligned rectangles in two dimensions. For an arbitrarily small constant δ > 0, our algorithm obtains an O((1/δ)²) approximation and requires O(U^δ polylog n) space and update time with high probability, assuming that coordinates are integers bounded by U. We also obtain a similar result for fat objects in any constant dimension. This extends recent non-streaming algorithms by Bhore and Chan from SODA'25, and also greatly extends previous streaming results, which were limited to special types of geometric objects such as one-dimensional intervals and unit disks.
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Timothy M. Chan and Yuancheng Yu. Dynamic Streaming Algorithms for Geometric Independent Set. In 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 349, pp. 17:1-17:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{chan_et_al:LIPIcs.WADS.2025.17,
  author =	{Chan, Timothy M. and Yu, Yuancheng},
  title =	{{Dynamic Streaming Algorithms for Geometric Independent Set}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-398-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{349},
  editor =	{Morin, Pat and Oh, Eunjin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242481},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometric Independent Set, Dynamic Streaming Algorithms}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.131
Deterministic Complexity Analysis of Hermitian Eigenproblems

Authors: Aleksandros Sobczyk

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
In this work we revisit the arithmetic and bit complexity of Hermitian eigenproblems. Recently, [BGVKS, FOCS 2020] proved that a (non-Hermitian) matrix A can be diagonalized with a randomized algorithm in O(n^{ω}log²(n/ε)) arithmetic operations, where ω≲ 2.371 is the square matrix multiplication exponent, and [Shah, SODA 2025] significantly improved the bit complexity for the Hermitian case. Our main goal is to obtain similar deterministic complexity bounds for various Hermitian eigenproblems. In the Real RAM model, we show that a Hermitian matrix can be diagonalized deterministically in O(n^{ω}log(n)+n²polylog(n/ε)) arithmetic operations, improving the classic deterministic Õ(n³) algorithms, and derandomizing the aforementioned state-of-the-art. The main technical step is a complete, detailed analysis of a well-known divide-and-conquer tridiagonal eigensolver of Gu and Eisenstat [GE95], when accelerated with the Fast Multipole Method, asserting that it can accurately diagonalize a symmetric tridiagonal matrix in nearly-O(n²) operations. In finite precision, we show that an algorithm by Schönhage [Sch72] to reduce a Hermitian matrix to tridiagonal form is stable in the floating point model, using O(log(n/ε)) bits of precision. This leads to a deterministic algorithm to compute all the eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix in O(n^{ω}ℱ(log(n/ε)) + n²polylog(n/ε)) bit operations, where ℱ(b) ∈ Õ(b) is the bit complexity of a single floating point operation on b bits. This improves the best known Õ(n³) deterministic and O(n^{ω}log²(n/ε)ℱ(log(n/ε))) randomized complexities. We conclude with some other useful subroutines such as computing spectral gaps, condition numbers, and spectral projectors, and with some open problems.
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Aleksandros Sobczyk. Deterministic Complexity Analysis of Hermitian Eigenproblems. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 131:1-131:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{sobczyk:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.131,
  author =	{Sobczyk, Aleksandros},
  title =	{{Deterministic Complexity Analysis of Hermitian Eigenproblems}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{131:1--131:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.131},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-235081},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.131},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hermitian eigenproblem, eigenvalues, SVD, tridiagonal reduction, matrix multiplication time, diagonalization, bit complexity}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.64
Fully Scalable MPC Algorithms for Euclidean k-Center

Authors: Artur Czumaj, Guichen Gao, Mohsen Ghaffari, and Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
The k-center problem is a fundamental optimization problem with numerous applications in machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and communication networks. The k-center problem has been extensively studied in the classical sequential setting for several decades, and more recently there have been some efforts in understanding the problem in parallel computing, on the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. For now, we have a good understanding of k-center in the case where each local MPC machine has sufficient local memory to store some representatives from each cluster, that is, when one has Ω(k) local memory per machine. While this setting covers the case of small values of k, for a large number of clusters these algorithms require undesirably large local memory, making them poorly scalable. The case of large k has been considered only recently for the fully scalable low-local-memory MPC model for the Euclidean instances of the k-center problem. However, the earlier works have been considering only the constant dimensional Euclidean space, required a super-constant number of rounds, and produced only k(1+o(1)) centers whose cost is a super-constant approximation of k-center. In this work, we significantly improve upon the earlier results for the k-center problem for the fully scalable low-local-memory MPC model. In the low dimensional Euclidean case in ℝ^d, we present the first constant-round fully scalable MPC algorithm for (2+ε)-approximation. We push the ratio further to (1 + ε)-approximation albeit using slightly more (1 + ε)k centers. All these results naturally extends to slightly super-constant values of d. In the high-dimensional regime, we provide the first fully scalable MPC algorithm that in a constant number of rounds achieves an O(log n/ log log n)-approximation for k-center.
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Artur Czumaj, Guichen Gao, Mohsen Ghaffari, and Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang. Fully Scalable MPC Algorithms for Euclidean k-Center. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 64:1-64:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{czumaj_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.64,
  author =	{Czumaj, Artur and Gao, Guichen and Ghaffari, Mohsen and Jiang, Shaofeng H.-C.},
  title =	{{Fully Scalable MPC Algorithms for Euclidean k-Center}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{64:1--64:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.64},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234416},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.64},
  annote =	{Keywords: Massively Parallel Computing, Euclidean Spaces, k-Center Clustering}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.101
Coresets for Robust Clustering via Black-Box Reductions to Vanilla Case

Authors: Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang and Jianing Lou

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
We devise ε-coresets for robust (k,z)-Clustering with m outliers through black-box reductions to vanilla clustering. Given an ε-coreset construction for vanilla clustering with size N, we construct coresets of size N⋅ polylog(kmε^{-1}) + O_z(min{kmε^{-1}, m ε^{-2z}log^z(kmε^{-1})}) for various metric spaces, where O_z hides 2^{O(zlog z)} factors. This increases the size of the vanilla coreset by a small multiplicative factor of polylog(kmε^{-1}), and the additive term is up to a (ε^{-1}log (km))^{O(z)} factor to the size of the optimal robust coreset. Plugging in recent vanilla coreset results of [Cohen-Addad, Saulpic and Schwiegelshohn, STOC'21; Cohen-Addad, Draganov, Russo, Saulpic and Schwiegelshohn, SODA'25], we obtain the first coresets for (k,z)-Clustering with m outliers with size near-linear in k while previous results have size at least Ω(k²) [Huang, Jiang, Lou and Wu, ICLR'23; Huang, Li, Lu and Wu, SODA'25]. Technically, we establish two conditions under which a vanilla coreset is as well a robust coreset. The first condition requires the dataset to satisfy special structures - it can be broken into "dense" parts with bounded diameter. We combine this with a new bounded-diameter decomposition that has only O_z(km ε^{-1}) non-dense points to obtain the O_z(km ε^{-1}) additive bound. Another sufficient condition requires the vanilla coreset to possess an extra size-preserving property. To utilize this condition, we further give a black-box reduction that turns a vanilla coreset to the one that satisfies the said size-preserving property, and this leads to the alternative O_z(mε^{-2z}log^{z}(kmε^{-1})) additive size bound. We also give low-space implementations of our reductions in the dynamic streaming setting. Combined with known streaming constructions for vanilla coresets [Braverman, Frahling, Lang, Sohler and Yang, ICML'17; Hu, Song, Yang and Zhong, arXiv'1802.00459], we obtain the first dynamic streaming algorithms for coresets for k-Median (and k-Means) with m outliers, using space Õ(k + m) ⋅ poly(dε^{-1}log Δ) for inputs on a discrete grid [Δ]^d.
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Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang and Jianing Lou. Coresets for Robust Clustering via Black-Box Reductions to Vanilla Case. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 101:1-101:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{jiang_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.101,
  author =	{Jiang, Shaofeng H.-C. and Lou, Jianing},
  title =	{{Coresets for Robust Clustering via Black-Box Reductions to Vanilla Case}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{101:1--101:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.101},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234781},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.101},
  annote =	{Keywords: Coresets, clustering, outliers, streaming algorithms}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.7
O(1)-Round MPC Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Grid Graph Connectivity, Euclidean MST and DBSCAN

Authors: Junhao Gan, Anthony Wirth, and Zhuo Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)

Abstract
In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model: (i) grid graph connectivity, (ii) approximate Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (EMST), and (iii) approximate DBSCAN. Our first result is a O(1)-round Las Vegas (i.e., succeeding with high probability) MPC algorithm for computing the connected components on a d-dimensional c-penetration grid graph ((d,c)-grid graph), where both d and c are positive integer constants. In such a grid graph, each vertex is a point with integer coordinates in ℕ^d, and an edge can only exist between two distinct vertices with 𝓁_∞-norm at most c. To our knowledge, the current best existing result for computing the connected components (CC’s) on (d,c)-grid graphs in the MPC model is to run the state-of-the-art MPC CC algorithms that are designed for general graphs: they achieve O(log log n + log D) [Behnezhad et al., 2019] and O(log log n + log 1/(λ)) [Sepehr Assadi et al., 2019] rounds, respectively, where D is the diameter and λ is the spectral gap of the graph. With our grid graph connectivity technique, our second main result is a O(1)-round Las Vegas MPC algorithm for computing approximate Euclidean MST. The existing state-of-the-art result on this problem is the O(1)-round MPC algorithm proposed by Andoni et al. [Alexandr Andoni et al., 2014], which only guarantees an approximation on the overall weight in expectation. In contrast, our algorithm not only guarantees a deterministic overall weight approximation, but also achieves a deterministic edge-wise weight approximation. The latter property is crucial to many applications, such as finding the Bichromatic Closest Pair and Single-Linkage Clustering. Last, but not least, our third main result is a O(1)-round Las Vegas MPC algorithm for computing an approximate DBSCAN clustering in O(1)-dimensional Euclidean space.
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Junhao Gan, Anthony Wirth, and Zhuo Zhang. O(1)-Round MPC Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Grid Graph Connectivity, Euclidean MST and DBSCAN. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 7:1-7:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{gan_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.7,
  author =	{Gan, Junhao and Wirth, Anthony and Zhang, Zhuo},
  title =	{{O(1)-Round MPC Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Grid Graph Connectivity, Euclidean MST and DBSCAN}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229483},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Massively Parallel Computation, Graph Connectivity, Grid Graphs, Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree, DBSCAN}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.64
A Universal Sequence of Tensors for the Asymptotic Rank Conjecture

Authors: Petteri Kaski and Mateusz Michałek

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 325, 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)

Abstract
The exponent σ(T) of a tensor T ∈ 𝔽^d⊗𝔽^d⊗𝔽^d over a field 𝔽 captures the base of the exponential growth rate of the tensor rank of T under Kronecker powers. Tensor exponents are fundamental from the standpoint of algorithms and computational complexity theory; for example, the exponent ω of square matrix multiplication can be characterized as ω = 2σ(MM₂), where MM₂ ∈ 𝔽⁴⊗𝔽⁴⊗𝔽⁴ is the tensor that represents 2×2 matrix multiplication. Strassen [FOCS 1986] initiated a duality theory for spaces of tensors that enables one to characterize the exponent of a tensor via objects in a dual space, called the asymptotic spectrum of the primal (tensor) space. While Strassen’s theory has considerable generality beyond the setting of tensors - Wigderson and Zuiddam [Asymptotic Spectra: Theory, Applications, and Extensions, preprint, 2023] give a recent exposition - progress in characterizing the dual space in the tensor setting has been slow, with the first universal points in the dual identified by Christandl, Vrana, and Zuiddam [J. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (2023)]. In parallel to Strassen’s theory, the algebraic geometry community has developed a geometric theory of tensors aimed at characterizing the structure of the primal space and tensor exponents therein; the latter study was motivated in particular by an observation of Strassen (implicit in [J. Reine Angew. Math. 384 (1988)]) that matrix-multiplication tensors have limited universality in the sense that σ(𝔽^d⊗𝔽^d⊗𝔽^d) ≤ 2ω/3 = 4/3σ(MM₂) holds for all d ≥ 1. In particular, this limited universality of the tensor MM₂ puts forth the question whether one could construct explicit universal tensors that exactly characterize the worst-case tensor exponent in the primal space. Such explicit universal objects would, among others, give means towards a proof or a disproof of Strassen’s asymptotic rank conjecture [Progr. Math. 120 (1994)]; the former would immediately imply ω = 2 and, among others, refute the Set Cover Conjecture (cf. Björklund and Kaski [STOC 2024] and Pratt [STOC 2024]). Our main result is an explicit construction of a sequence 𝒰_d of zero-one-valued tensors that is universal for the worst-case tensor exponent; more precisely, we show that σ(𝒰_d) = σ(d) where σ(d) = sup_{T ∈ 𝔽^d⊗𝔽^d⊗𝔽^d}σ(T). We also supply an explicit universal sequence 𝒰_Δ localised to capture the worst-case exponent σ(Δ) of tensors with support contained in Δ ⊆ [d]×[d]×[d]; by combining such sequences, we obtain a universal sequence 𝒯_d such that σ(𝒯_d) = 1 holds if and only if Strassen’s asymptotic rank conjecture holds for d. Finally, we show that the limit lim_{d → ∞}σ(d) exists and can be captured as lim_{d → ∞} σ(D_d) for an explicit sequence (D_d)_{d = 1}^∞ of tensors obtained by diagonalisation of the sequences 𝒰_d. As our second result we relate the absence of polynomials of fixed degree vanishing on tensors of low rank, or more generally asymptotic rank, with upper bounds on the exponent σ(d). Using this technique, one may bound asymptotic rank for all tensors of a given format, knowing enough specific tensors of low asymptotic rank.
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Petteri Kaski and Mateusz Michałek. A Universal Sequence of Tensors for the Asymptotic Rank Conjecture. In 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 325, pp. 64:1-64:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{kaski_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.64,
  author =	{Kaski, Petteri and Micha{\l}ek, Mateusz},
  title =	{{A Universal Sequence of Tensors for the Asymptotic Rank Conjecture}},
  booktitle =	{16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)},
  pages =	{64:1--64:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-361-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{325},
  editor =	{Meka, Raghu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.64},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-226925},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.64},
  annote =	{Keywords: asymptotic rank conjecture, secant variety, Specht module, tensor rank, tensor exponent}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.48
Differentially Private Continual Releases of Streaming Frequency Moment Estimations

Authors: Alessandro Epasto, Jieming Mao, Andres Munoz Medina, Vahab Mirrokni, Sergei Vassilvitskii, and Peilin Zhong

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 251, 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)

Abstract
The streaming model of computation is a popular approach for working with large-scale data. In this setting, there is a stream of items and the goal is to compute the desired quantities (usually data statistics) while making a single pass through the stream and using as little space as possible. Motivated by the importance of data privacy, we develop differentially private streaming algorithms under the continual release setting, where the union of outputs of the algorithm at every timestamp must be differentially private. Specifically, we study the fundamental 𝓁_p (p ∈ [0,+∞)) frequency moment estimation problem under this setting, and give an ε-DP algorithm that achieves (1+η)-relative approximation (∀ η ∈ (0,1)) with polylog(Tn) additive error and uses polylog(Tn)⋅ max(1, n^{1-2/p}) space, where T is the length of the stream and n is the size of the universe of elements. Our space is near optimal up to poly-logarithmic factors even in the non-private setting. To obtain our results, we first reduce several primitives under the differentially private continual release model, such as counting distinct elements, heavy hitters and counting low frequency elements, to the simpler, counting/summing problems in the same setting. Based on these primitives, we develop a differentially private continual release level set estimation approach to address the 𝓁_p frequency moment estimation problem. We also provide a simple extension of our results to the harder sliding window model, where the statistics must be maintained over the past W data items.
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Alessandro Epasto, Jieming Mao, Andres Munoz Medina, Vahab Mirrokni, Sergei Vassilvitskii, and Peilin Zhong. Differentially Private Continual Releases of Streaming Frequency Moment Estimations. In 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 251, pp. 48:1-48:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{epasto_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.48,
  author =	{Epasto, Alessandro and Mao, Jieming and Medina, Andres Munoz and Mirrokni, Vahab and Vassilvitskii, Sergei and Zhong, Peilin},
  title =	{{Differentially Private Continual Releases of Streaming Frequency Moment Estimations}},
  booktitle =	{14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-263-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{251},
  editor =	{Tauman Kalai, Yael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.48},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-175513},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Privacy, Continual Release, Sliding Window, Streaming Algorithms, Distinct Elements, Frequency Moment Estimation}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.14
Log Diameter Rounds Algorithms for 2-Vertex and 2-Edge Connectivity

Authors: Alexandr Andoni, Clifford Stein, and Peilin Zhong

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 132, 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019)

Abstract
Many modern parallel systems, such as MapReduce, Hadoop and Spark, can be modeled well by the MPC model. The MPC model captures well coarse-grained computation on large data - data is distributed to processors, each of which has a sublinear (in the input data) amount of memory and we alternate between rounds of computation and rounds of communication, where each machine can communicate an amount of data as large as the size of its memory. This model is stronger than the classical PRAM model, and it is an intriguing question to design algorithms whose running time is smaller than in the PRAM model. In this paper, we study two fundamental problems, 2-edge connectivity and 2-vertex connectivity (biconnectivity). PRAM algorithms which run in O(log n) time have been known for many years. We give algorithms using roughly log diameter rounds in the MPC model. Our main results are, for an n-vertex, m-edge graph of diameter D and bi-diameter D', 1) a O(log D log log_{m/n} n) parallel time 2-edge connectivity algorithm, 2) a O(log D log^2 log_{m/n}n+log D'log log_{m/n}n) parallel time biconnectivity algorithm, where the bi-diameter D' is the largest cycle length over all the vertex pairs in the same biconnected component. Our results are fully scalable, meaning that the memory per processor can be O(n^{delta}) for arbitrary constant delta>0, and the total memory used is linear in the problem size. Our 2-edge connectivity algorithm achieves the same parallel time as the connectivity algorithm of [Andoni et al., 2018]. We also show an Omega(log D') conditional lower bound for the biconnectivity problem.
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Alexandr Andoni, Clifford Stein, and Peilin Zhong. Log Diameter Rounds Algorithms for 2-Vertex and 2-Edge Connectivity. In 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 132, pp. 14:1-14:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{andoni_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.14,
  author =	{Andoni, Alexandr and Stein, Clifford and Zhong, Peilin},
  title =	{{Log Diameter Rounds Algorithms for 2-Vertex and 2-Edge Connectivity}},
  booktitle =	{46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-109-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{132},
  editor =	{Baier, Christel and Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Flocchini, Paola and Leonardi, Stefano},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-105906},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: parallel algorithms, biconnectivity, 2-edge connectivity, the MPC model}
}
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