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SetSketch: Filling the Gap between MinHash and HyperLogLog

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arxiv 2101.00314 v3 pith:T6LFOUNL submitted 2021-01-01 cs.DS cs.DB

classification cs.DScs.DB
keywords hyperloglogminhashdatajointsetsketchallowsapplicationscases
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MinHash and HyperLogLog are sketching algorithms that have become indispensable for set summaries in big data applications. While HyperLogLog allows counting different elements with very little space, MinHash is suitable for the fast comparison of sets as it allows estimating the Jaccard similarity and other joint quantities. This work presents a new data structure called SetSketch that is able to continuously fill the gap between both use cases. Its commutative and idempotent insert operation and its mergeable state make it suitable for distributed environments. Fast, robust, and easy-to-implement estimators for cardinality and joint quantities, as well as the ability to use SetSketch for similarity search, enable versatile applications. The presented joint estimator can also be applied to other data structures such as MinHash, HyperLogLog, or HyperMinHash, where it even performs better than the corresponding state-of-the-art estimators in many cases.

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