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The Adversarial Robustness of Sampling

Summary: Shows Bernoulli/reservoir sampling in streaming is vulnerable to fully adaptive adversaries that inspect the current sample—VC-dimension bounds can fail and sublinear samples become unrepresentative. Fix: replace d by log|R|; sample size Ω(log|R|/ε^2) suffices (nearly tight), while exploitable attacks require exponentially large |R|. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1774
Venue
PODS
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.3879072e-05
Overall Rank
4,172 | 70.98%
DOI
10.1145/3375395.3387643

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