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most citedTowards Tight Bounds for the Streaming Set Cover Problem

33 citations · 81 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.GT2026

Pareto Inefficiency of EFX

Sepideh Mahabadi, Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Jakub Tarnawski

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods to agents with additive valuations, under two classic notions of fairness and efficiency: envy-freeness up to any good (EFX)…

cs.LG2026

Random Fourier Features in Near-Linear Time

Sepideh Mahabadi, Sandeep Silwal, Tal Wagner

Random Fourier features approximate a shift-invariant kernel in , such as the Gaussian kernel , using independent samples from its spectra…

cs.DS2026

Improved Sublinear Algorithms for Maximal Independent Set and Metric Steiner Forest

Sepideh Mahabadi, Jakub Tarnawski

In this work we consider the Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem and the metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time setting, under the adjacency/distance matrix query mo…

cs.DS2026

Local Search for Fair Max-Min Diversification

Sepideh Mahabadi, Shyam Narayanan, Varun Sivashankar

Given points in a metric space, Max-Min diversification asks for a subset of points maximizing the minimum pairwise distance between the selected points. This is arguably t…

cs.DS2026

Hardness of Online Directed Steiner Network

Gary Hoppenworth, Yaowei Long, Sepideh Mahabadi +1

In the Directed Steiner Network (DSN) problem we are given a directed graph and a set of demands , and asked to find a cheap subgraph connecting each terminal pair. In i…

cs.DS2026

Online Steiner Forest with Recourse

Yaowei Long, Sepideh Mahabadi, Sherry Sarkar +1

In the online Steiner forest problem we are given a graph , and a sequence of terminal pairs which arrive in an online fashion. We are asked to maintain a low-cost s…

cs.DS2026

Improved Algorithms for Fair Matroid Submodular Maximization

Sepideh Mahabadi, Sherry Sarkar, Jakub Tarnawski

Submodular maximization subject to matroid constraints is a central problem with many applications in machine learning. As algorithms are increasingly used in decision-making over…

cs.DS2025

Sublinear Metric Steiner Forest via Maximal Independent Set

Sepideh Mahabadi, Mohammad Roghani, Jakub Tarnawski +1

In this work we consider the Metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time model. Given a set of points in a metric space where distances are provided by means of que…

cs.DS2025

The Expiration Streaming Model: Diameter, -Center, Counting, Sampling, and Friends

Lotte Blank, Sergio Cabello, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi +5

An important thread in the study of data-stream algorithms focuses on settings where stream items are active only for a limited time. We introduce a new expiration model, where eac…

cs.DS2025

A 0.51-Approximation of Maximum Matching in Sublinear Time

Sepideh Mahabadi, Mohammad Roghani, Jakub Tarnawski

We study the problem of estimating the size of a maximum matching in sublinear time. The problem has been studied extensively in the literature and various algorithms and lower bou…

cs.DS2025

Guessing Efficiently for Constrained Subspace Approximation

Aditya Bhaskara, Sepideh Mahabadi, Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu +2

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of points in , the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} pr…

cs.DS2025

Streaming Algorithms for Network Design

Chandra Chekuri, Rhea Jain, Sepideh Mahabadi +1

We consider the Survivable Network Design problem (SNDP) in the single-pass insertion-only streaming model. The input to SNDP is an edge-weighted graph and an integer…

cs.DS2025

Graph-Based Algorithms for Diverse Similarity Search

Piyush Anand, Piotr Indyk, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy +4

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the m…

cs.DS2024

Sublinear Metric Steiner Tree via Improved Bounds for Set Cover

Sepideh Mahabadi, Mohammad Roghani, Jakub Tarnawski +1

We study the metric Steiner tree problem in the sublinear query model. In this problem, for a set of points in a metric space given to us by means of query access to an $n\…

cs.CR2024

Efficiently Computing Similarities to Private Datasets

Arturs Backurs, Zinan Lin, Sepideh Mahabadi +2

Many methods in differentially private model training rely on computing the similarity between a query point (such as public or synthetic data) and private data. We abstract out th…

cs.DS2024

Streaming Algorithms for Connectivity Augmentation

Ce Jin, Michael Kapralov, Sepideh Mahabadi +1

We study the -connectivity augmentation problem (-CAP) in the single-pass streaming model. Given a -edge connected graph that is stored in memory, and a stre…

cs.DS2023

Core-sets for Fair and Diverse Data Summarization

Sepideh Mahabadi, Stojan Trajanovski

We study core-set construction algorithms for the task of Diversity Maximization under fairness/partition constraint. Given a set of points in a metric space partitioned into $…

cs.DS2023★ 1 cited

Tight Bounds for Volumetric Spanners and Applications

Aditya Bhaskara, Sepideh Mahabadi, Ali Vakilian

Given a set of points of interest, a volumetric spanner is a subset of the points using which all the points can be expressed using "small" coefficients (measured in an appropriate…

cs.DS2023

Composable Coresets for Determinant Maximization: Greedy is Almost Optimal

Siddharth Gollapudi, Sepideh Mahabadi, Varun Sivashankar

Given a set of vectors in , the goal of the \emph{determinant maximization} problem is to pick vectors with the maximum volume. Determinant maximization is th…

cs.DS2023

Improved Diversity Maximization Algorithms for Matching and Pseudoforest

Sepideh Mahabadi, Shyam Narayanan

In this work we consider the diversity maximization problem, where given a data set of elements, and a parameter , the goal is to pick a subset of of size maximi…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Approximation Algorithms for Fair Range Clustering

Sèdjro S. Hotegni, Sepideh Mahabadi, Ali Vakilian

This paper studies the fair range clustering problem in which the data points are from different demographic groups and the goal is to pick centers with the minimum clustering…

cs.DS2022

Composable Coresets for Constrained Determinant Maximization and Beyond

Sepideh Mahabadi, Thuy-Duong Vuong

We study algorithms for construction of composable coresets for the task of Determinant Maximization under partition constraint. Given a point set that is p…

cs.LG2022

Adaptive Sketches for Robust Regression with Importance Sampling

Sepideh Mahabadi, David P. Woodruff, Samson Zhou

We introduce data structures for solving robust regression through stochastic gradient descent (SGD) by sampling gradients with probability proportional to their norm, i.e., import…

cs.DS2021

Sampling a Near Neighbor in High Dimensions -- Who is the Fairest of Them All?

Martin Aumüller, Sariel Har-Peled, Sepideh Mahabadi +2

Similarity search is a fundamental algorithmic primitive, widely used in many computer science disciplines. Given a set of points and a radius parameter , the -near nei…