Towards Tight Bounds for the Streaming Set Cover Problem
Summary: O(1/δ)-pass streaming algorithm for Set Cover using ~O(m n^δ) space with logarithmic approximation, improving prior pass complexity. Tight lower bounds: exact requires Ω~(m n^δ) for (1/(2δ)-1) passes; geometric variant uses ~O(n) space; one-pass randomized needs Ω(m n). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Sariel Har-Peled (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Sepideh Mahabadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Ali Vakilian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{harpeled_pods16,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '16},
title = {{Towards Tight Bounds for the Streaming Set Cover Problem}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2902251.2902287},
doi = {10.1145/2902251.2902287},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Har-Peled, Sariel and Indyk, Piotr and Mahabadi, Sepideh and Vakilian, Ali},
year = {2016}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,799 | Tight Space-Approximation Tradeoff for the Multi-Pass Streaming Set Cover Problem | 2017 | PODS | 5.9904155e-05 |
| 7,849 | Tight Trade-offs for the Maximum k-Coverage Problem in the General Streaming Model | 2019 | PODS | 5.4410785e-05 |
| 11,515 | Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,689 | Set Cover in the One-pass Edge-arrival Streaming Model | 2023 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
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