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Let $P = \{p(i)\}$ be a measure of strictly positive probabilities on the set of nonnegative integers. Although the countable number of inputs prevents usage of the Huffman algorithm, there are nontrivial $P$ for which known methods find a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael B. Baer

In this paper we investigate the problem of partitioning an input string T in such a way that compressing individually its parts via a base-compressor C gets a compressed output that is shorter than applying C over the entire T at once.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Paolo Ferragina , Igor Nitto , Rossano Venturini

Given a set of pattern strings $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1, P_2,\ldots P_k\}$ and a text string $S$, the classic dictionary matching problem is to report all occurrences of each pattern in $S$. We study the dictionary problem in the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Simon J. Puglisi , Simon R. Tarnow

Given a string $S$, the \emph{compressed indexing problem} is to preprocess $S$ into a compressed representation that supports fast \emph{substring queries}. The goal is to use little space relative to the compressed size of $S$ while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Philip Bille , Mikko Berggren Ettienne , Inge Li Gørtz , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj

For a text given in advance, the substring minimal suffix queries ask to determine the lexicographically minimal non-empty suffix of a substring specified by the location of its occurrence in the text. We develop a data structure answering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Tomasz Kociumaka

This paper presents a general technique for optimally transforming any dynamic data structure that operates on atomic and indivisible keys by constant-time comparisons, into a data structure that handles unbounded-length keys whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amihood Amir , Gianni Franceschini , Roberto Grossi , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Moshe Lewenstein , Noa Lewenstein

This paper investigates the size in bits of the LZ77 encoding, which is the most popular and efficient variant of the Lempel-Ziv encodings used in data compression. We prove that, for a wide natural class of variable-length encoders for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Dmitry Kosolobov

Let $P = \{p(i)\}$ be a measure of strictly positive probabilities on the set of nonnegative integers. Although the countable number of inputs prevents usage of the Huffman algorithm, there are nontrivial $P$ for which known methods find a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

In this paper, we study the following problem: given $n$ subsets $S_1, \dots, S_n$ of an integer universe $U = \{0,\dots, u-1\}$, having total cardinality $N = \sum_{i=1}^n |S_i|$, find a prefix-free encoding $enc : U \rightarrow \{0,1\}^+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jarno N. Alanko , Ruben Becker , Davide Cenzato , Travis Gagie , Sung-Hwan Kim , Bojana Kodric , Nicola Prezza

We study the problem of supporting queries on a string $S$ of length $n$ within a space bounded by the size $\gamma$ of a string attractor for $S$. Recent works showed that random access on $S$ can be supported in optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Nicola Prezza

Linear-probing hash tables have been classically believed to support insertions in time $\Theta(x^2)$, where $1 - 1/x$ is the load factor of the hash table. Recent work by Bender, Kuszmaul, and Kuszmaul (FOCS'21), however, has added a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mark Braverman , William Kuszmaul

The suffix array is a fundamental data structure for many applications that involve string searching and data compression. Designing time/space-efficient suffix array construction algorithms has attracted significant attention and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Zhize Li , Jian Li , Hongwei Huo

The compressed indexing problem is to preprocess a string $S$ of length $n$ into a compressed representation that supports pattern matching queries. That is, given a string $P$ of length $m$ report all occurrences of $P$ in $S$. We present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Anders Roy Christiansen , Mikko Berggren Ettienne

A text written using symbols from a given alphabet can be compressed using the Huffman code, which minimizes the length of the encoded text. It is necessary, however, to employ a text-specific codebook, i.e. the symbol-codeword dictionary,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Andranik Khachatryan

In this paper, we consider the problem of compressing a trie while supporting the powerful \emph{locate} queries: to return the pre-order identifiers of all nodes reached by a path labeled with a given query pattern. Our result builds on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Nicola Prezza

Data compression has become a necessity not only the in the field of communication but also in various scientific experiments. The data that is being received is more and the processing time required has also become more. A significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Gautam R , S Murali

We present two algorithms for dynamically maintaining a spanning forest of a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. Our algorithms guarantee {\em worst-case update time} and work against an adaptive adversary, meaning that an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We prove that longest common prefix (LCP) information can be stored in much less space than previously known. More precisely, we show that in the presence of the text and the suffix array, o(n) additional bits are sufficient to answer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-19 Johannes Fischer

The notions of synchronizing and partitioning sets are recently introduced variants of locally consistent parsings with great potential in problem-solving. In this paper we propose a deterministic algorithm that constructs for a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Dmitry Kosolobov , Nikita Sivukhin

For most algorithms dealing with sets of points in the plane, the only relevant information carried by the input is the combinatorial configuration of the points: the orientation of each triple of points in the set (clockwise,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Jean Cardinal , Timothy M. Chan , John Iacono , Stefan Langerman , Aurélien Ooms