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The Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) is a well studied text transformation widely used in data compression and text indexing. The BWT of two strings can also provide similarity measures between them, based on the observation that the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Felipe A. Louza , Guilherme P. Telles , Simon Gog , Liang Zhao

The ubiquitous Variable-Byte encoding is one of the fastest compressed representation for integer sequences. However, its compression ratio is usually not competitive with other more sophisticated encoders, especially when the integers to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

The inversion of extremely high order matrices has been a challenging task because of the limited processing and memory capacity of conventional computers. In a scenario in which the data does not fit in memory, it is worth to consider…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Iria C. S. Cosme , Isaac F. Fernandes , João L. de Carvalho , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is a string transformation technique widely used in areas such as bioinformatics and file compression. Many applications combine a run-length encoding (RLE) with the BWT in a way which preserves the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lily Major , Amanda Clare , Jacqueline W. Daykin , Benjamin Mora , Christine Zarges

In a dynamic retrieval system, documents must be ingested as they arrive, and be immediately findable by queries. Our purpose in this paper is to describe an index structure and processing regime that accommodates that requirement for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Alistair Moffat , Joel Mackenzie

There has been considerable research on automated index tuning in database management systems (DBMSs). But the majority of these solutions tune the index configuration by retrospectively making computationally expensive physical design…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Joy Arulraj , Ran Xian , Lin Ma , Andrew Pavlo

The field of succinct data structures has flourished over the last 16 years. Starting from the compressed suffix array (CSA) by Grossi and Vitter (STOC 2000) and the FM-index by Ferragina and Manzini (FOCS 2000), a number of generalizations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Djamal Belazzougui , Fabio Cunial , Juha Kärkkäinen , Veli Mäkinen

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is an important technique both in data compression and in the design of compact indexing data structures. It has been generalized from single strings to collections of strings and some classes of labeled…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jarno Alanko , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Louisa Seelbach Benkner

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is among the most influential discoveries in text compression and DNA storage. It is a reversible preprocessing step that rearranges an $n$-letter string into runs of identical characters (by exploiting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sandip Sinha , Omri Weinstein

Some recent results have introduced external-memory algorithms to compute self-indexes of a set of strings, mainly via computing the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) of the input strings. The motivations for those results stem from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Yuri Pirola , Marco Previtali , Raffaella Rizzi

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is an invertible text transformation that permutes symbols of a text according to the lexicographical order of its suffixes. BWT is the main component of popular lossless compression programs (such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka

This paper explores the performance envelope of "traditional" inverted indexing on modern hardware using the implementation in the open-source Lucene search library. We benchmark indexing throughput on a single high-end multi-core commodity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jimmy Lin , Lori Paniak , Gordon Boerke

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) has been an essential tool in text compression and indexing. First introduced in 1994, it went on to provide the backbone for the first encoding of the classic suffix tree data structure in space close to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jason Bentley , Daniel Gibney , Sharma V. Thankachan

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González

We propose an external memory algorithm for the computation of the BWT and LCP array for a collection of sequences. Our algorithm takes the amount of available memory as an input parameter, and tries to make the best use of it by splitting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Lavinia Egidi , Felipe A. Louza , Giovanni Manzini , Guilherme P. Telles

The success of neural networks in image classification has inspired various hardware implementations on embedded platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays, embedded processors and Graphical Processing Units. These embedded platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sivakumar Chidambaram , J. M. Pierre Langlois , Jean Pierre David

Reducing computational costs is an important issue for development of embedded systems. Binary-weight Neural Networks (BNNs), in which weights are binarized and activations are quantized, are employed to reduce computational costs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Tse-Wei Chen , Wei Tao , Dongyue Zhao , Kazuhiro Mima , Tadayuki Ito , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

We propose algorithms that, given the input string of length $n$ over integer alphabet of size $\sigma$, construct the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT), the permuted longest-common-prefix (PLCP) array, and the LZ77 parsing in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Dominik Kempa

Finding desired information from large data set is a difficult problem. Information retrieval is concerned with the structure, analysis, organization, storage, searching, and retrieval of information. Index is the main constituent of an IR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Md. Abdullah al Mamun , Md. Hanif , Md. Rakib Uddin , Tanvir Ahmed , Md. Mofizul Islam

Indexing very large collections of strings, such as those produced by the widespread next generation sequencing technologies, heavily relies on multistring generalization of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT): large requirements of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Yuri Pirola , Marco Previtali , Raffaella Rizzi