""" Bloom Filter — Space-efficient probabilistic set membership. Trade certainty for memory: a Bloom filter can tell you "definitely not in the set" or "probably in the set." False positives are possible; false negatives are not. At 1% FP rate, uses ~9.6 bits per element regardless of element size. Uses: spell checkers, network routers, database query optimizers, web crawlers (skip visited URLs), CDN cache summaries. """ import math import mmh3 from bitarray import bitarray class BloomFilter: def __init__(self, expected_items: int, fp_rate: float = 0.01): self.size = self._optimal_size(expected_items, fp_rate) self.hash_count = self._optimal_hashes(self.size, expected_items) self.bits = bitarray(self.size) self.bits.setall(0) self.count = 0 def add(self, item: str) -> None: for seed in range(self.hash_count): idx = mmh3.hash(item, seed) % self.size self.bits[idx] = 1 self.count += 1 def __contains__(self, item: str) -> bool: return all( self.bits[mmh3.hash(item, seed) % self.size] for seed in range(self.hash_count) ) @property def estimated_fp_rate(self) -> float: """Current false positive probability given items inserted.""" filled = self.bits.count(1) / self.size return filled ** self.hash_count @staticmethod def _optimal_size(n: int, p: float) -> int: return int(-n * math.log(p) / (math.log(2) ** 2)) @staticmethod def _optimal_hashes(m: int, n: int) -> int: return max(1, int((m / n) * math.log(2))) # Quick demo if __name__ == "__main__": bf = BloomFilter(expected_items=100_000, fp_rate=0.001) words = ["serendipity", "ephemeral", "luminous", "petrichor", "vellichor"] for w in words: bf.add(w) print(f"Filter: {bf.size:,} bits ({bf.size // 8:,} bytes), {bf.hash_count} hashes") print(f"'serendipity' in filter: {'serendipity' in bf}") # True print(f"'nostalgia' in filter: {'nostalgia' in bf}") # False print(f"Estimated FP rate: {bf.estimated_fp_rate:.6%}")

Bloom Filter in Python

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