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Streaming Graph Computations with a Helpful Advisor

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Authors: Graham Cormode, Michael Mitzenmacher, Justin Thaler
Accepted on: 18th October 2011 23:27
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Abstract:

Motivated by the trend to outsource work to commercial cloud computing services, we consider a variation of the streaming paradigm where a streaming algorithm can be assisted by a powerful helper that can provide annotations to the data stream. We extend previous work on such annotation models by considering a number of graph streaming problems. Without annotations, streaming algorithms for graph problems generally require significant memory; we show that for many standard problems, including all graph problems that can be expressed with totally unimodular integer programming formulations, only constant space (measured in words) is needed for single-pass algorithms given linear-sized annotations. We also obtain protocols achieving essentially optimal tradeoffs between annotation length and memory usage for several important problems, including integer matrix-vector multiplication and a large class of linear programs, as well as shortest $s$-$t$ path in small-diameter graphs. We obtain non-trivial tradeoffs for minimum weight bipartite perfect matching and shortest $s$-$t$ path in general graphs.



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TR11-105 | 22nd July 2011 17:42

Streaming Graph Computations with a Helpful Advisor


Abstract:

Motivated by the trend to outsource work to commercial cloud computing services, we consider a variation of the streaming paradigm where a streaming algorithm can be assisted by a powerful helper that can provide annotations to the data stream. We extend previous work on such annotation models by considering a number of graph streaming problems. Without annotations, streaming algorithms for graph problems generally require significant memory; we show that for many standard problems, including all graph problems that can be expressed with totally unimodular integer programming formulations, only constant space (measured in words) is needed for single-pass algorithms given linear-sized annotations. We also obtain protocols achieving essentially optimal tradeoffs between annotation length and memory usage for several important problems, including integer matrix-vector multiplication and a large class of linear programs, as well as shortest $s$-$t$ path in small-diameter graphs. We obtain non-trivial tradeoffs for minimum weight bipartite perfect matching and shortest $s$-$t$ path in general graphs.



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