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The pattern matching problem with swaps is to find all occurrences of a pattern in a text while allowing the pattern to swap adjacent symbols. The goal is to design fast matching algorithm that takes advantage of the bit parallelism of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Václav Blažej , Ondřej Suchý , Tomáš Valla

A string matching -- and more generally, sequence matching -- algorithm is presented that has a linear worst-case computing time bound, a low worst-case bound on the number of comparisons (2n), and sublinear average-case behavior that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-02 David R. Musser , Gor V. Nishanov

The worst-case complexity of group-theoretic algorithms has been studied for a long time. Generic-case complexity, or complexity on random inputs, was introduced and studied relatively recently. In this paper, we address the average-case…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Alexander Olshanskii , Vladimir Shpilrain

String matching is one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. A natural problem is to determine the number of characters that need to be queried (i.e. the decision tree complexity) in a string in order to decide whether this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Xiaoyu He , Neng Huang , Xiaoming Sun

Cartesian tree matching is the problem of finding all substrings in a given text which have the same Cartesian trees as that of a given pattern. In this paper, we deal with Cartesian tree matching for the case of multiple patterns. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Geonmo Gu , Siwoo Song , Simone Faro , Thierry Lecroq , Kunsoo Park

We study the Longest Common Extension (LCE) problem in a string containing wildcards. Wildcards (also called "don't cares" or "holes") are special characters that match any other character in the alphabet, similar to the character "?" in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Gabriel Bathie , Itai Boneh , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Jonas Ellert , Tatiana Starikovskaya

We study the fully dynamic pattern matching problem where the pattern may contain up to kwildcard symbols, each matching any symbol of the alphabet. Both the text and the pattern are subject to updates (insert, delete, change). We design an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arshia Ataee Naeini , Amir-Parsa Mobed , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin

Given a set of pattern strings $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1, P_2,\ldots P_k\}$ and a text string $S$, the classic dictionary matching problem is to report all occurrences of each pattern in $S$. We study the dictionary problem in the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Simon J. Puglisi , Simon R. Tarnow

The binary string matching problem consists in finding all the occurrences of a pattern in a text where both strings are built on a binary alphabet. This is an interesting problem in computer science, since binary data are omnipresent in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-15 Simone Faro , Thierry Lecroq

We study the problem of indexing text with wildcard positions, motivated by the challenge of aligning sequencing data to large genomes that contain millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)---positions known to differ between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-28 Chris Thachuk

In this survey, we address the worst-case, average-case, and generic-case time complexity of the word problem and some other algorithmic problems in several classes of groups and show that it is often the case that the average-case…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Vladimir Shpilrain

We present an efficient algorithm for finding all approximate occurrences of a given pattern $p$ of length $m$ in a text $t$ of length $n$ allowing for translocations of equal length adjacent factors and inversions of factors. The algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Szymon Grabowski , Simone Faro , Emanuele Giaquinta

Given a text and a pattern over two types of symbols called constants and variables, the parameterized pattern matching problem is to find all occurrences of substrings of the text that the pattern matches by substituting a variable in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yuki Igarashi , Diptarama , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

In runtime verification, pattern matching, which searches for occurrences of a specific pattern within a word, provides more information than a simple violation detection of the monitored property, by locating concrete evidence of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Masaki Waga , Étienne André

In this paper, we present a fast and strong neural approach for general purpose text matching applications. We explore what is sufficient to build a fast and well-performed text matching model and propose to keep three key features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Runqi Yang , Jianhai Zhang , Xing Gao , Feng Ji , Haiqing Chen

Exact pattern matching in labeled graphs is the problem of searching paths of a graph $G=(V,E)$ that spell the same string as the pattern $P[1..m]$. This basic problem can be found at the heart of more complex operations on variation graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Massimo Equi , Roberto Grossi , Veli Mäkinen

The worst-case complexity of group-theoretic algorithms has been studied for a long time. Generic-case complexity, or complexity on random inputs, was introduced and studied relatively recently. In this paper, we address the average-case…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Vladimir Shpilrain

Approximate pattern matching is a natural and well-studied problem on strings: Given a text $T$, a pattern $P$, and a threshold $k$, find (the starting positions of) all substrings of $T$ that are at distance at most $k$ from $P$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Philip Wellnitz

We consider the Consensus Patterns problem, where, given a set of input strings, one is asked to extract a long-enough pattern which appears (with some errors) in all strings. We prove that this problem is W[1]-hard when parameterized by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Laurent Bulteau

In this paper, we consider the mismatched rate-distortion problem, in which the encoding is done using a codebook, and the encoder chooses the minimum-distortion codeword according to a mismatched distortion function that differs from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Millen Kanabar , Jonathan Scarlett