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This paper investigates the approximability of the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. The fastest algorithm for solving the LCS problem exactly runs in essentially quadratic time in the length of the input, and it is known that under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Shyan Akmal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. Apart from theoretical importance, LCS has enormous applications in bioinformatics, revision control systems, and data comparison…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-17 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Xiaorui Sun

Let $A$ and $B$ be two number sequences of length $n$ and $m$, respectively, where $m\le n$. Given a positive number $\delta$, a common almost increasing sequence $s_1\ldots s_k$ is a common subsequence for both $A$ and $B$ such that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Md Tanzeem Rahat , Md. Manzurul Hasan , Debajyoti Mondal

Finding an Approximate Longest Common Substring (ALCS) within a given set $S=\{s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_m\}$ of $m \ge 2$ strings is a key problem in computational biology, such as identifying related mutations across multiple genetic sequences. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hamed Hasibi , Neerja Mhaskar , W. F. Smyth

The \emph{longest common extension} (\emph{LCE}) problem is to preprocess a given string $w$ of length $n$ so that the length of the longest common prefix between suffixes of $w$ that start at any two given positions is answered quickly. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Yuka Tanimura , Takaaki Nishimoto , Hideo Bannai , Shunsuke Inenaga , Masayuki Takeda

In this paper, we revisit the much studied LCS problem for two given sequences. Based on the algorithm of Iliopoulos and Rahman for solving the LCS problem, we have suggested 3 new improved algorithms. We first reformulate the problem in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

Finding the longest common subsequence in $k$-length substrings (LCS$k$) is a recently proposed problem motivated by computational biology. This is a generalization of the well-known LCS problem in which matching symbols from two sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Sebastian Deorowicz , Szymon Grabowski

Calculating the length of a longest common subsequence (LCS) of two strings $A$ and $B$ of length $n$ and $m$ is a classic research topic, with many worst-case oriented results known. We present two algorithms for LCS length calculation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Szymon Grabowski

The longest square subsequence (LSS) problem consists of computing a longest subsequence of a given string $S$ that is a square, i.e., a longest subsequence of form $XX$ appearing in $S$. It is known that an LSS of a string $S$ of length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Takafumi Inoue , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai

The longest common substring with $k$-mismatches problem is to find, given two strings $S_1$ and $S_2$, a longest substring $A_1$ of $S_1$ and $A_2$ of $S_2$ such that the Hamming distance between $A_1$ and $A_2$ is $\le k$. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Tomas Flouri , Emanuele Giaquinta , Kassian Kobert , Esko Ukkonen

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem with multiple substring inclusive constraints. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a set of $d$ constraints $P=\{P_1,\cdots,P_d\}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

Longest Common Substring (LCS) is an important text processing problem, which has recently been investigated in the quantum query model. The decisional version of this problem, LCS with threshold $d$, asks whether two length-$n$ input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Ce Jin , Jakob Nogler

The recently introduced longest common substring with $k$-mismatches ($k$-LCF) problem is to find, given two sequences $S_1$ and $S_2$ of length $n$ each, a longest substring $A_1$ of $S_1$ and $A_2$ of $S_2$ such that the Hamming distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Szymon Grabowski

We consider the classic problem of computing the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two strings of length $n$. While a simple quadratic algorithm has been known for the problem for more than 40 years, no faster algorithm has been found…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Karl Bringmann , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Debarati Das

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is a fundamental string similarity measure, and computing the LCS of two strings is a classic algorithms question. A textbook dynamic programming algorithm gives an exact algorithm in quadratic time, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xiaoyu He , Ray Li

The longest common extension problem is to preprocess a given string of length $n$ into a data structure that uses $S(n)$ bits on top of the input and answers in $T(n)$ time the queries $\mathit{LCE}(i,j)$ computing the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Dmitry Kosolobov

The longest common substring problem consists in finding a longest string that appears as a (contiguous) substring of two input strings. We consider the dynamic variant of this problem, in which we are to maintain two dynamic strings $S$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Karol Pokorski

This paper reformulates the problem of finding a longest common increasing subsequence of the two given input sequences in a very succinct way. An extremely simple linear space algorithm based on the new formula can find a longest common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Tinran Wang , Xiaodong Wang

Motivated by computing duplication patterns in sequences, a new fundamental problem called the longest subsequence-repeated subsequence (LSRS) is proposed. Given a sequence $S$ of length $n$, a letter-repeated subsequence is a subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Manuel Lafond , Wenfeng Lai , Adiesha Liyanage , Binhai Zhu

The 2-LCPS problem, first introduced by Chowdhury et al. [Fundam. Inform., 129(4):329-340, 2014], asks one to compute (the length of) a longest palindromic common subsequence between two given strings $A$ and $B$. We show that the 2-LCPS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Shunsuke Inenaga , Heikki Hyyrö