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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.1
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186545
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18654/
Dietzfelbinger, Martin
On Hashing by (Random) Equations (Invited Talk)
Abstract
The talk will consider aspects of the following setup: Assume for each (key) x from a set ? (the universe) a vector a_x = (a_{x,0},… ,a_{x,{m-1}}) has been chosen. Given a list Z = (z_i)_{i ∈ [m]} of vectors in {0,1}^r we obtain a mapping φ_Z: ? → {0,1}^r, x ↦ ⟨a_x,Z⟩ := ⨁_{i ∈ [m]} a_{x,i} ⋅ z_i, where ⨁ is bitwise XOR. The simplest way for creating a data structure for calculating φ_Z is to store Z in an array Z[0..m-1] and answer a query for x by returning ⟨ a_x,Z⟩. The length m of the array should be (1+ε)n for some small ε, and calculating this inner product should be fast. In the focus of the talk is the case where for all or for most of the sets S ⊆ ? of a certain size n the vectors a_x, x ∈ S, are linearly independent. Choosing Z at random will lead to hash families of various degrees of independence. We will be mostly interested in the case where a_x, x ∈ ? are chosen independently at random from {0,1}^m, according to some distribution ?. We wish to construct (static) retrieval data structures, which means that S ⊂ ? and some mapping f: S → {0,1}^r are given, and the task is to find Z such that the restriction of φ_Z to S is f. For creating such a data structure it is necessary to solve the linear system (a_x)_{x ∈ S} ⋅ Z = (f(x))_{x ∈ S} for Z. Two problems are central: Under what conditions on m and ? can we expect the vectors a_x, x ∈ S to be linearly independent, and how can we arrange things so that in this case the system can be solved fast, in particular in time close to linear (in n, assuming a reasonable machine model)? Solutions to these problems, some classical and others that have emerged only in recent years, will be discussed.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{dietzfelbinger:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.1,
author = {Dietzfelbinger, Martin},
title = {{On Hashing by (Random) Equations}},
booktitle = {31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
pages = {1:1--1:1},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-295-2},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2023},
volume = {274},
editor = {G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18654},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186545},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.1},
annote = {Keywords: Hashing, Retrieval, Linear equations, Randomness}
}
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Hashing, Retrieval, Linear equations, Randomness |
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31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023) |
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2023 |
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30.08.2023 |
