Deterministic sampling and range counting in geometric data streams

  • Authors:
  • Amitabha Bagchi;Amitabh Chaudhary;David Eppstein;Michael T. Goodrich

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India;Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN;University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA;University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present memory-efficient deterministic algorithms for constructing ε-nets and ε-approximations of streams of geometric data. Unlike probabilistic approaches, these deterministic samples provide guaranteed bounds on their approximation factors. We show how our deterministic samples can be used to answer approximate online iceberg geometric queries on data streams. We use these techniques to approximate several robust statistics of geometric data streams, including Tukey depth, simplicial depth, regression depth, the Thiel-Sen estimator, and the least median of squares. Our algorithms use only a polylogarithmic amount of memory, provided the desired approximation factors are at least inverse-polylogarithmic. We also include a lower bound for noniceberg geometric queries.