Locally Uniform Hashing

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Hashing is a common technique used in data processing, with a strong impact on the time and resources spent on computation. Hashing also affects the applicability of theoretical results that often assume access to (unrealistic) uniform/fully-random hash functions. In this paper, we are concerned with designing hash functions that are practical and come with strong theoretical guarantees on their performance.To this end, we present tornado tabulation hashing, which is simple, fast, and exhibits a certain full, local randomness property that provably makes diverse algorithms perform almost as if (abstract) fully-random hashing was used. For example, this includes classic linear probing, the widely used HyperLogLog algorithm of Flajolet, Fusy, Gandouet, Meunier [AOFA'97] for counting distinct elements, and the one-permutation hashing of Li, Owen, and Zhang [NIPS'12] for large-scale machine learning. We also provide a very efficient solution for the classical problem of obtaining fully-random hashing on a fixed (but unknown to the hash function) set of n keys using O(n) space. As a consequence, we get more efficient implementations of the splitting trick of Dietzfelbinger and Rink [ICALP'09] and the succinct space uniform hashing of Pagh and Pagh [SICOMP'08].Tornado tabulation hashing is based on a simple method to systematically break dependencies in tabulation-based hashing techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE 64th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2023
PublisherIEEE Computer Society Press
Publication date2023
Pages1440-1470
ISBN (Electronic)9798350318944
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Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event64th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2023 - Santa Cruz, United States
Duration: 6 Nov 20239 Nov 2023

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Conference64th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2023
LandUnited States
BySanta Cruz
Periode06/11/202309/11/2023
SponsorIEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, NSF

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  • Concentration Bounds, Hashing, Linear Probing, Tabulation Hashing, Uniform Hashing

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