Approximating and Testing k-Histogram Distributions in Sub-linear Time
Summary: Sublinear-time, sample-efficient algorithms that from samples produce a k-interval piecewise-constant approximation minimizing L2 error to an unknown distribution over [n]. Also gives testers distinguishing k-histograms from distributions ε-far in L1 or L2 with improved complexity. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Reut Levi (Tel Aviv University)
- 3. Ronitt Rubinfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tel Aviv University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{indyk_pods12,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '12},
title = {{Approximating and Testing k-Histogram Distributions in Sub-linear Time}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213556.2213561},
doi = {10.1145/2213556.2213561},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Indyk, Piotr and Levi, Reut and Rubinfeld, Ronitt},
year = {2012}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,341 | I've Seen "Enough": Incrementally Improving Visualizations to Support Rapid Decision Making | 2017 | VLDB | 7.4063139e-05 |
| 5,534 | Fast and Near–Optimal Algorithms for Approximating Distributions by Histograms | 2015 | PODS | 6.0923159e-05 |
| 9,154 | High Performance Stream Query Processing With Correlation-Aware Partitioning | 2014 | VLDB | 5.2176811e-05 |
| 12,319 | Are Few Bins Enough: Testing Histogram Distributions | 2016 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 13,886 | Erratum for: Approximating and Testing k-Histogram Distributions in Sub-linear Time | 2015 | PODS | - |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 242 | Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00023363722 |
| 255 | The History of Histograms (abridged) | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00022981861 |
| 275 | Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00022413521 |
| 519 | Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00016942879 |
| 742 | Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.0001431602 |
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