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Pattern matching with wildcards is the problem of finding all factors of a text $t$ of length $n$ that match a pattern $x$ of length $m$, where wildcards (characters that match everything) may be present. In this paper we present a number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Carl Barton

In the online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, $m$ requests in a metric space are submitted at different times by an adversary. The goal is to match all requests while (i) minimizing the sum of the distances between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Marc Dufay , Roger Wattenhofer

In this work, we study longest common substring, pattern matching, and wildcard pattern matching in the asymmetric streaming model. In this streaming model, we have random access to one string and streaming access to the other one. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tung Mai , Anup Rao , Ryan A. Rossi , Saeed Seddighin

Given a pattern x of length m and a text y of length n, both over an ordered alphabet, the order-preserving pattern matching problem consists in finding all substrings of the text with the same relative order as the pattern. It is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Simone Faro , Oğuzhan Külekci

We revisit the complexity of online computation in the cell probe model. We consider a class of problems where we are first given a fixed pattern or vector $F$ of $n$ symbols and then one symbol arrives at a time in a stream. After each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Raphael Clifford , Markus Jalsenius , Benjamin Sach

We study the classic set cover problem in the streaming model: the sets that comprise the instance are revealed one by one in a stream and the goal is to solve the problem by making one or few passes over the stream while maintaining a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Sepehr Assadi

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sujoy Bhore , Maike Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Ce Jin , André Nusser , Carolin Rehs

New lower bounds on the minimum average Hamming distance of binary codes are derived. The bounds are obtained using linear programming approach.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Beniamin Mounits

We prove $n^{1+\Omega(1/p)}/p^{O(1)}$ lower bounds for the space complexity of $p$-pass streaming algorithms solving the following problems on $n$-vertex graphs: * testing if an undirected graph has a perfect matching (this implies lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Krzysztof Onak

Minimum distance is an important parameter of a linear error correcting code. For improved performance of binary Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, we need to have the minimum distance grow fast with n, the codelength. However, the best…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu

Packing a given sequence of items into as few bins as possible in an online fashion is a widely studied problem. We improve lower bounds for packing boxes into bins in two or more dimensions, both for general algorithms for squares and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 David Blitz , Sandy Heydrich , Rob van Stee , André van Vliet , Gerhard J. Woeginger

We consider computing a longest palindrome in the streaming model, where the symbols arrive one-by-one and we do not have random access to the input. While computing the answer exactly using sublinear space is not possible in such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Paweł Gawrychowski , Oleg Merkurev , Arseny M. Shur , Przemysław Uznański

In this paper, we present and study the \emph{Hamming distance oracle problem}. In this problem, the task is to preprocess two strings $S$ and $T$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, respectively, to obtain a data-structure that is able to answer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Itai Boneh , Dvir Fried , Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

We consider the problem of computing a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation of the Hamming distance between a pattern of length $n$ and successive substrings of a stream. We first look at the one-way randomised communication complexity of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Raphael Clifford , Tatiana Starikovskaya

In this paper we study the adaptive prefix coding problem in cases where the size of the input alphabet is large. We present an online prefix coding algorithm that uses $O(\sigma^{1 / \lambda + \epsilon}) $ bits of space for any constants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Travis Gagie , Marek Karpinski , Yakov Nekrich

We show that fundamental learning tasks, such as finding an approximate linear separator or linear regression, require memory at least \emph{quadratic} in the dimension, in a natural streaming setting. This implies that such problems cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Yuval Dagan , Gil Kur , Ohad Shamir

We prove multi-pass streaming lower bounds for uniformity testing over a domain of size $2m$. The tester receives a stream of $n$ i.i.d. samples and must distinguish (i) the uniform distribution on $[2m]$ from (ii) a Paninski-style planted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qian Li , Xin Lyu

An array low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a quasi-cyclic LDPC code specified by two integers $q$ and $m$, where $q$ is an odd prime and $m \leq q$. The exact minimum distance, for small $q$ and $m$, has been calculated, and tight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirik Rosnes

We study the online discrepancy minimization problem for vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in the oblivious setting where an adversary is allowed fix the vectors $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n$ in arbitrary order ahead of time. We give an algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 David Arbour , Drew Dimmery , Tung Mai , Anup Rao

We study a generalization of the recently introduced order-preserving pattern matching, where instead of looking for an exact copy of the pattern, we only require that the relative order between the elements is the same. In our variant, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Pawel Gawrychowski , Przemyslaw Uznanski