Summary of Learning-based Sketches For Frequency Estimation in Data Streams Without Ground Truth, by Xinyu Yuan and Yan Qiao and Meng Li and Zhenchun Wei and Cuiying Feng
Learning-based Sketches for Frequency Estimation in Data Streams without Ground Truth
by Xinyu Yuan, Yan Qiao, Meng Li, Zhenchun Wei, Cuiying Feng
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Databases (cs.DB)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles the challenge of estimating the frequency of items on high-volume data streams. Traditional sketch algorithms provide rough estimates at a low memory cost, but recent learning-augmented approaches have limitations, including requiring actual frequencies for training and being too slow for real-time processing. The authors propose a novel framework that leverages learning to improve estimation accuracy while meeting the requirements of fast and low-memory usage. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making predictions on really big data streams. Imagine you’re trying to count how many times a certain word appears in all the tweets posted today. Traditional methods can only give you an estimate, but it might not be very accurate. Newer approaches have tried to fix this by using learning algorithms, but they still have problems – they need the actual numbers to learn from, and they’re too slow to keep up with the data as it comes in. The researchers are working on a new way to do this that’s both fast and accurate. |
