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We study here the so called subsequence pattern matching also known as hidden pattern matching in which one searches for a given pattern $w$ of length $m$ as a subsequence in a random text of length $n$. The quantity of interest is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Svante Janson , Wojciech Szpankowski

Pattern matching is a fundamental process in almost every scientific domain. The problem involves finding the positions of a given pattern (usually of short length) in a reference stream of data (usually of large length). The matching can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Anas Al-okaily , Abdelghani Tbakhi

A degenerate string is a sequence of sets of characters. A generalized degenerate (GD) string extends this notion to the sequence of sets of strings, where strings of the same set are of equal length. Finding an exact match for a pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Massimo Equi , Md Rabiul Islam Khan , Veli Mäkinen

The closest pair problem is a fundamental problem of computational geometry: given a set of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, find a pair with the smallest distance. A classical algorithm taught in introductory courses solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Scott Aaronson , Nai-Hui Chia , Han-Hsuan Lin , Chunhao Wang , Ruizhe Zhang

String matching is a fundamental problem in computer science, with critical applications in text retrieval, bioinformatics, and data analysis. Among the numerous solutions that have emerged for this problem in recent decades,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Caterina Viola

We study quantum algorithms for several fundamental string problems, including Longest Common Substring, Lexicographically Minimal String Rotation, and Longest Square Substring. These problems have been widely studied in the stringology…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

The problem of finding \emph{distance} between \emph{pattern} of length $m$ and \emph{text} of length $n$ is a typical way of generalizing pattern matching to incorporate dissimilarity score. For both Hamming and $L_1$ distances only a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Przemysław Uznański

By means of a simple example it is demonstrated that the task of finding and identifying certain patterns in an otherwise (macroscopically) unstructured picture (data set) can be accomplished efficiently by a quantum computer. Employing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Schützhold

In the Pattern Masking for Dictionary Matching (PMDM) problem, we are given a dictionary $\mathcal{D}$ of $d$ strings, each of length $\ell$, a query string $q$ of length $\ell$, and a positive integer $z$, and we are asked to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Huiping Chen , Peter Christen , Grigorios Loukides , Nadia Pisanti , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

It's the key research topic of signal processing that recognizing genuine targets real time from the disturbed signal which has giant amount of data. A quantum algorithm for pattern recognition of classical signal which has time complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-04 Chao-Yang Pang , Cong-Bao Ding , Ben-Qiong Hu

We propose a probabilistic quantum algorithm that decides whether a monochrome picture matches a given template (or one out of a set of templates). As a major advantage to classical pattern recognition, the algorithm just requires a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Gernot Schaller , Ralf Schützhold

Text-to-pattern distance is a fundamental problem in string matching, where given a pattern of length $m$ and a text of length $n$, over an integer alphabet, we are asked to compute the distance between pattern and the text at every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Przemysław Uznański

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

We present a quantum algorithm for sampling random spanning trees from a weighted graph in $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{mn})$ time, where $n$ and $m$ denote the number of vertices and edges, respectively. Our algorithm has sublinear runtime for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Simon Apers , Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Chenghua Liu

It has recently been shown that starting with a classical query algorithm (decision tree) and a guessing algorithm that tries to predict the query answers, we can design a quantum algorithm with query complexity $O(\sqrt{GT})$ where $T$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Salman Beigi , Leila Taghavi , Artin Tajdini

In this work, we address the problem of approximate pattern matching with wildcards. Given a pattern $P$ of length $m$ containing $D$ wildcards, a text $T$ of length $n$, and an integer $k$, our objective is to identify all fragments of $T$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Gabriel Bathie , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Given a pattern string $P$ of length $n$ and a query string $T$ of length $m$, where the characters of $P$ and $T$ are drawn from an alphabet of size $\Delta$, the {\em exact string matching} problem consists of finding all occurrences of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We present a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for the Hidden Subgroup Problem over $\mathbb{D}_{2^n}$. The usual approach to the Hidden Subgroup Problem relies on harmonic analysis in the domain of the problem, and the best known algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Matthew Moore , Grace Young

We revisit a fundamental problem in string matching: given a pattern of length m and a text of length n, both over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, compute the Hamming distance between the pattern and the text at every location. Several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Timothy M. Chan , Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat

The most fundamental problem considered in algorithms for text processing is pattern matching: given a pattern $p$ of length $m$ and a text $t$ of length $n$, does $p$ occur in $t$? Multiple versions of this basic question have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Moses Ganardi , Paweł Gawrychowski