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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

At the present scenario of the internet, there exist many optimization techniques to improve the Web speed but almost expensive in terms of bandwidth. So after a long investigation on different techniques to compress the data without any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Hemant Kumar Saini , Satpal Singh Kushwaha , C. Rama Krishna

We present a simple adaptation of the Lempel Ziv 78' (LZ78) compression scheme ({\em IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1978}) that supports efficient random access to the input string. Namely, given query access to the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Akashnil Dutta , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

The Block Tree is a recently proposed data structure that reaches compression close to Lempel-Ziv while supporting efficient direct access to text substrings. In this paper we show how a self-index can be built on top of a Block Tree so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Gonzalo Navarro

Lempel-Ziv-Double (LZD) is a variation of the LZ78 compression scheme that achieves better compression on repetitive datasets. Nevertheless, prior research has identified computational inefficiencies and a weakness in its compressibility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Linus Götz , Dominik Köppl

We describe the first self-indexes able to count and locate pattern occurrences in optimal time within a space bounded by the size of the most popular dictionary compressors. To achieve this result we combine several recent findings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Anders Roy Christiansen , Mikko Berggren Ettienne , Tomasz Kociumaka , Gonzalo Navarro , Nicola Prezza

The Lempel-Ziv parsing of a string (LZ77 for short) is one of the most important and widely-used algorithmic tools in data compression and string processing. We show that the Lempel-Ziv parsing of a string of length $n$ on an alphabet of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Djamal Belazzougui , Simon J. Puglisi

The LZ-End parsing [Kreft & Navarro, 2011] of an input string yields compression competitive with the popular Lempel-Ziv 77 scheme, but also allows for efficient random access. Kempa and Kosolobov showed that the parsing can be computed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Patrick Dinklage

Mauer et al. [A Lempel-Ziv-style Compression Method for Repetitive Texts, PSC 2017] proposed a hybrid text compression method called LZ-LFS which has both features of Lempel-Ziv 77 factorization and longest first substitution. They showed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Akihiro Nishi , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

We introduce a new approach to LZ77 factorization that uses O(n/d) words of working space and O(dn) time for any d >= 1 (for polylogarithmic alphabet sizes). We also describe carefully engineered implementations of alternative approaches to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Juha Kärkkäinen , Dominik Kempa , Simon J. Puglisi

We present a new algorithm for computing the Lempel-Ziv Factorization (LZ77) of a given string of length $N$ in linear time, that utilizes only $N\log N + O(1)$ bits of working space, i.e., a single integer array, for constant size integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Keisuke Goto , Hideo Bannai

In pattern matching on strings, a locate query asks for an enumeration of all the occurrences of a given pattern in a given text. The r-index [Gagie et al., 2018] is a recently presented compressed self index that stores the text and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Patrick Dinklage , Johannes Fischer , Lukas Nalbach , Jan Zumbrink

Dynamic dictionary-based compression schemes are the most daily used data compression schemes since they appeared in the foundational papers of Ziv and Lempel in 1977, commonly referred to as LZ77. Their work is the base of Deflate, gZip,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Maxime Crochemore , Alessio Langiu , Filippo Mignosi

We present a new, simple, and efficient approach for computing the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) factorization of a string in linear time, based on suffix arrays. Computational experiments on various data sets show that our approach constantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Keisuke Goto , Hideo Bannai

Relative Lempel-Ziv (RLZ) is a popular algorithm for compressing databases of genomes from individuals of the same species when fast random access is desired. With Kuruppu et al.'s (SPIRE 2010) original implementation, a reference genome is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Anthony J. Cox , Andrea Farruggia , Travis Gagie , Simon J. Puglisi , Jouni Sirén

The Lempel-Ziv 77 (LZ77) factorization is a fundamental compression scheme widely used in text processing and data compression. In this work, we investigate the time complexity of maintaining the LZ77 factorization of a dynamic string. By…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Itai Boneh , Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

The $r$-index represented a breakthrough in compressed indexing of repetitive text collections, outperforming its alternatives by orders of magnitude in query time. Its space usage, $O(r)$ where $r$ is the number of runs in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Dustin Cobas , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro

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

We propose a novel, lightweight supervised dictionary learning framework for text classification based on data compression and representation. This two-phase algorithm initially employs the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Li Wan , Tansu Alpcan , Margreta Kuijper , Emanuele Viterbo

We propose algorithms computing the semi-greedy Lempel-Ziv 78 (LZ78), the Lempel-Ziv Double (LZD), and the Lempel-Ziv-Miller-Wegman (LZMW) factorizations in linear time for integer alphabets. For LZD and LZMW, we additionally propose data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Dominik Köppl