An Almost Space-Optimal Streaming Algorithm for Coresets in Fixed Dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1

  • Venue:
  • ESA '08 Proceedings of the 16th annual European symposium on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a new streaming algorithm for maintaining an 茂戮驴-kernel of a point set in 茂戮驴dusing O((1/茂戮驴(d茂戮驴 1)/2) log(1/茂戮驴)) space. The space used by our algorithm is optimal up to a small logarithmic factor. This substantially improves (for any fixed dimension $d \geqslant 3$) the best previous algorithm for this problem that uses O(1/茂戮驴d茂戮驴 (3/2)) space, presented by Agarwal and Yu at SoCG'07. Our algorithm immediately improves the space complexity of the best previous streaming algorithms for a number of fundamental geometric optimization problems in fixed dimensions, including width, minimum enclosing cylinder, minimum-width enclosing annulus, minimum-width enclosing cylindrical shell, etc.