{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/fully-dynamic-space-efficient-dictionaries","title":"Fully-Dynamic Space-Efficient Dictionaries and Filters with Constant Number of Memory Accesses","arxiv_id":"1911.05060","date":"2019-11-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ioana O. Bercea","Guy Even"],"abstract":"A fully-dynamic dictionary is a data structure for maintaining sets that supports insertions, deletions and membership queries. A filter approximates membership queries with a one-sided error. We present two designs: 1. The first space-efficient fully-dynamic dictionary that maintains both sets and random multisets and supports queries, insertions, and deletions with a constant number of memory accesses in the worst case with high probability. The comparable dictionary of Arbitman, Naor, and Segev [FOCS 2010] works only for sets. 2. By a reduction from our dictionary for random multisets, we obtain a space-efficient fully-dynamic filter that supports queries, insertions, and deletions with a constant number of memory accesses in the worst case with high probability (as long as the false positive probability is $2^{-O(w)}$, where $w$ denotes the word length). This is the first in-memory space-efficient fully-dynamic filter design that provably achieves these properties. We also present an application of the techniques used to design our dictionary to the static Retrieval Problem.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05060v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.05060v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"fully-dynamic-space-efficient-dictionaries","repo_url":"https://github.com/TomerEven/Pocket_Dictionary","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}