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Understanding Circulant Permutation to Extend the CMinHash Estimator
Abstract
CMinHash promises a new direction for designing MinHash algorithms with reduced variance and storage space via circulant permutations. However, the original variance analysis is difficult to extend to other MinHash estimators. We present a new approach that gives explicit and easily comparable approximate variance expressions, and use it to analyze the Minner estimator. Numerical experiments show that our variance expression matches the empirical mean square error (MSE) of estimates. Our work thereby demonstrates how to apply circulant permutation to other MinHash estimators and compute their approximate variance.
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BibTeX
@misc{kang2026understanding,
title = {{Understanding Circulant Permutation to Extend the CMinHash Estimator}},
author = {Keegan Kang and Avery Hood and Benedict H. W. Wong},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.18551},
eprint = {2610.18551},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18551},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Understanding Circulant Permutation to Extend the CMinHash Estimator
AU - Keegan Kang
AU - Avery Hood
AU - Benedict H. W. Wong
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.18551
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18551
AB - CMinHash promises a new direction for designing MinHash algorithms with reduced variance and storage space via circulant permutations. However, the original variance analysis is difficult to extend to other MinHash estimators. We present a new approach that gives explicit and easily comparable approximate variance expressions, and use it to analyze the Minner estimator. Numerical experiments show that our variance expression matches the empirical mean square error (MSE) of estimates. Our work thereby demonstrates how to apply circulant permutation to other MinHash estimators and compute their approximate variance.
ER -