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Some problems about Count Sketch #29

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wenwang00 opened this issue Aug 18, 2023 · 1 comment
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Some problems about Count Sketch #29

wenwang00 opened this issue Aug 18, 2023 · 1 comment

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@wenwang00
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Dear Andrii,
I had a puzzle when I learn Count Sketch, for those small frequency data, if they collide with the high frequency data, and the hash is exactly 1 and -1, then the frequency estimate of the low frequency data will give a negative estimate, I want to ask how to deal with this situation, I read a lot of explanations did not mention this, thank you

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gakhov commented Sep 6, 2023

Sorry, didn't get the exact point where you get a negative estimate due to the collision to 1/-1. Maybe you can refer to it in the book?

However, since the frequency by definition cannot be negative, the most obvious way is to compute max(0, f_estimate) as the result.

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