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The edit distance of two strings is the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions of characters needed to transform one string into the other. The textbook dynamic-programming algorithm computes the edit distance of two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alejandro Cassis , Tomasz Kociumaka , Philip Wellnitz

The edit distance is a way of quantifying how similar two strings are to one another by counting the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into the other. A simple dynamic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Elazar Goldenberg , Robert Krauthgamer , Barna Saha

The edit distance problem is a classical fundamental problem in computer science in general, and in combinatorial pattern matching in particular. The standard dynamic programming solution for this problem computes the edit-distance between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Danny Hermelin , Gad M. Landau , Shir Landau , Oren Weimann

We study the problem of estimating the edit distance between two $n$-character strings. While exact computation in the worst case is believed to require near-quadratic time, previous work showed that in certain regimes it is possible to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Joshua Brakensiek , Moses Charikar , Aviad Rubinstein

Edit distance is a measure of similarity of two strings based on the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into the other. The edit distance can be computed exactly using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Elazar Goldenberg , Michal Koucky , Michael Saks

The edit distance is a fundamental measure of sequence similarity, defined as the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to transform one string into the other. Given two strings of length at most $n$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tomasz Kociumaka , Anish Mukherjee , Barna Saha

The edit distance of two strings is the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to transform one string into the other. The textbook algorithm determines the edit distance of length-$n$ strings in $O(n^2)$ time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Egor Gorbachev , Tomasz Kociumaka

We study edit distance computation with preprocessing: the preprocessing algorithm acts on each string separately, and then the query algorithm takes as input the two preprocessed strings. This model is inspired by scenarios where we would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Elazar Goldenberg , Aviad Rubinstein , Barna Saha

The edit distance (a.k.a. the Levenshtein distance) between two strings is defined as the minimum number of insertions, deletions or substitutions of symbols needed to transform one string into another. The problem of computing the edit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk

In this paper we give an algorithm for streaming $k$-edit approximate pattern matching which uses space $\widetilde{O}(k^2)$ and time $\widetilde{O}(k^2)$ per arriving symbol. This improves substantially on the recent algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Sudatta Bhattacharya , Michal Koucký

Computing the edit distance of two strings is one of the most basic problems in computer science and combinatorial optimization. Tree edit distance is a natural generalization of edit distance in which the task is to compute a measure of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Debarati Das , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha , Hamed Saleh

The problem of approximate string matching is important in many different areas such as computational biology, text processing and pattern recognition. A great effort has been made to design efficient algorithms addressing several variants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-07-29 Dimitris Papamichail , Georgios Papamichail

The tree edit distance is a natural dissimilarity measure between rooted ordered trees whose nodes are labeled over an alphabet $\Sigma$. It is defined as the minimum number of node edits (insertions, deletions, and relabelings) required to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tomasz Kociumaka , Ali Shahali

We show how to compute the edit distance between two strings of length n up to a factor of 2^{\~O(sqrt(log n))} in n^(1+o(1)) time. This is the first sub-polynomial approximation algorithm for this problem that runs in near-linear time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Alexandr Andoni , Krzysztof Onak

In this work, we revisit the fundamental and well-studied problem of approximate pattern matching under edit distance. Given an integer $k$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$, and a text $T$ of length $n \ge m$, the task is to find substrings of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tomasz Kociumaka , Ely Porat , Tatiana Starikovskaya

We study the fundamental problem of approximating the edit distance of two strings. After an extensive line of research led to the development of a constant-factor approximation algorithm in almost-linear time, recent years have witnessed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Karl Bringmann , Alejandro Cassis , Nick Fischer , Tomasz Kociumaka

In this paper, we design new sublinear-time algorithms for solving the gap edit distance problem and for embedding edit distance to Hamming distance. For the gap edit distance problem, we give an $\tilde{O}(\frac{n}{k}+k^2)$-time greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha

Given two strings of length $n$ over alphabet $\Sigma$, and an upper bound $k$ on their edit distance, the algorithm of Myers (Algorithmica'86) and Landau and Vishkin (JCSS'88) computes the unweighted string edit distance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Debarati Das , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha

The edit distance between two strings is defined as the smallest number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions that need to be made to transform one of the strings to another one. Approximating edit distance in subquadratic time is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Mahdi Boroujeni , Soheil Ehsani , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Saeed Seddighin

The {\em edit distance} between two ordered trees with vertex labels is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling existing nodes, as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Erik D. Demaine , Shay Mozes , Benjamin Rossman , Oren Weimann
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