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Given a string on an integer alphabet, we present an algorithm that computes the set of all distinct squares belonging to this string in time linear to the string length. As an application, we show how to compute the tree topology of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Hideo Bannai , Shunsuke Inenaga , Dominik Köppl

The suffix tree is arguably the most fundamental data structure on strings: introduced by Weiner (SWAT 1973) and McCreight (JACM 1976), it allows solving a myriad of computational problems on strings in linear time. Motivated by its large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ruben Becker , Davide Cenzato , Travis Gagie , Sung-Hwan Kim , Ragnar Groot Koerkamp , Giovanni Manzini , Nicola Prezza

Recently, Cenzato et al.\ proposed a new text index, called the \emph{suffixient array}, which is a subset of the suffix array and supports locating a single pattern occurrence or finding its maximal exact matches (MEMs), assuming random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Paola Bonizzoni , Younan Gao , Brian Riccardi

Efficient methods for storing and querying are critical for scaling high-order n-gram language models to large corpora. We propose a language model based on compressed suffix trees, a representation that is highly compact and can be easily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Ehsan Shareghi , Matthias Petri , Gholamreza Haffari , Trevor Cohn

The linear-size suffix tries (LSTries) [Crochemore et al., TCS 2016] are a version of suffix trees in which the edge labels are single characters, yet are able to perform pattern matching queries in optimal time. Instead of explicitly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shunsuke Inenaga

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 suffix array is a classic full-text index, combining effectiveness with simplicity. We discuss three approaches aiming to improve its efficiency even more: changes to the navigation, data layout and adding extra data. In short, we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Tomasz Kowalski , Szymon Grabowski , Kimmo Fredriksson , Marcin Raniszewski

In this paper I present general outlook on questions relevant to the basic graph algorithms; Finding the Shortest Path with Positive Weights and Minimum Spanning Tree. I will show so far known solution set of basic graph problems and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-08-28 David S. Planeta

The k-spectrum of a string is the set of all distinct substrings of length k occurring in the string. K-spectra have many applications in bioinformatics including pseudoalignment and genome assembly. The Spectral Burrows-Wheeler Transform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jarno N. Alanko , Elena Biagi , Simon J. Puglisi

Based on the Breslauer-Italiano online suffix tree construction algorithm (2013) with double logarithmic worst-case guarantees on the update time per letter, we develop near-real-time algorithms for several classical problems on strings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Dominik Köppl , Gregory Kucherov

Given a string $S$ of length $n$, the classic string indexing problem is to preprocess $S$ into a compact data structure that supports efficient subsequent pattern queries. In this paper we consider the basic variant where the pattern is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Teresa Anna Steiner

Compressed indexing enables powerful queries over massive and repetitive textual datasets using space proportional to the compressed input. While theoretical advances have led to highly efficient index structures, their practical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ankith Reddy Adudodla , Dominik Kempa

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

Suffix Array (SA) is a cardinal data structure in many pattern matching applications, including data compression, plagiarism detection and sequence alignment. However, as the volumes of data increase abruptly, the construction of SA is not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hsiang-Huang Wu , Chien-Min Wang , Hsuan-Chi Kuo , Wei-Chun Chung , Jan-Ming Ho

We propose a B tree representation storing $n$ keys, each of $k$ bits, in either (a) $nk + O(nk / \lg n)$ bits or (b) $nk + O(nk \lg \lg n/ \lg n)$ bits of space supporting all B tree operations in either (a) $O(\lg n )$ time or (b) $O(\lg…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Tomohiro I , Dominik Köppl

We show that the compressed suffix array and the compressed suffix tree for a string of length $n$ over an integer alphabet of size $\sigma\leq n$ can both be built in $O(n)$ (randomized) time using only $O(n\log\sigma)$ bits of working…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Djamal Belazzougui

We solve the problem of finding interspersed maximal repeats using a suffix array construction. As it is well known, all the functionality of suffix trees can be handled by suffix arrays, gaining practicality. Our solution improves the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Veronica Becher , Alejandro Deymonnaz , Pablo Ariel Heiber

Indexing of very large collections of strings such as those produced by the widespread sequencing technologies, heavily relies on multi-string generalizations of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT), and for this problem various in-memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Serena Nicosia , Marco Previtali , Raffaella Rizzi

Suffix trees are an important data structure at the core of optimal solutions to many fundamental string problems, such as exact pattern matching, longest common substring, matching statistics, and longest repeated substring. Recent lines…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Nicola Rizzo , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Alberto Policriti

We introduce a new algorithm for constructing the generalized suffix array of a collection of highly similar strings. As a first step, we construct a compressed representation of the matching statistics of the collection with respect to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zsuzsanna Lipták , Francesco Masillo , Simon J. Puglisi