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We first review how we can store a run-length compressed suffix array (RLCSA) for a text $T$ of length $n$ over an alphabet of size $\sigma$ whose Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) consists of $r$ runs in $O \left( \rule{0ex}{2ex} r \log (n /…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Nathaniel K. Brown , Travis Gagie , Giovanni Manzini , Gonzalo Navarro , Marinella Sciortino

Computing the LZ factorization (or LZ77 parsing) of a string is a computational bottleneck in many diverse applications, including data compression, text indexing, and pattern discovery. We describe new linear time LZ factorization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Juha Kärkkäinen , Dominik Kempa , Simon J. Puglisi

Nishimoto and Tabei [CPM, 2021] proposed r-enum, an algorithm to enumerate various characteristic substrings, including maximal repeats, in a string $T$ of length $n$ in $O(r)$ words of compressed working space, where $r \le n$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kotaro Kimura , Tomohiro I

Enumerating characteristic substrings (e.g., maximal repeats, minimal unique substrings, and minimal absent words) in a given string has been an important research topic because there are a wide variety of applications in various areas such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Takaaki Nishimoto , Yasuo Tabei

We present RCT, a new compact data structure to represent trajectories of objects. It is based on a relative compression technique called Relative Lempel-Ziv (RLZ), which compresses sequences by applying an LZ77 encoding with respect to an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Nieves R. Brisaboa , Travis Gagie , Adrián Gómez-Brandón , Gonzalo Navarro , José R. Paramá

Compressed suffix arrays (CSAs) index large repetitive collections and are key in many text applications. The r-index and its derivatives combine the run-length Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) with suffix array sampling to achieve space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Diego Díaz-Domínguez , Veli Mäkinen

In this paper we study the number $r_{bwt}$ of equal-letter runs produced by the Burrows-Wheeler transform ($BWT$) when it is applied to purely morphic finite words, which are words generated by iterating prolongable morphisms. Such a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Andrea Frosini , Ilaria Mancini , Simone Rinaldi , Giuseppe Romana , Marinella Sciortino

In 1994, Burrows and Wheeler developed a data compression algorithm which performs significantly better than Lempel-Ziv based algorithms. Since then, a lot of work has been done in order to improve their algorithm, which is based on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dragos Trinca

Indexing of very large collections of strings such as those produced by the widespread sequencing technologies, heavily relies on multi-string generalizations of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT), and for this problem various in-memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Serena Nicosia , Marco Previtali , Raffaella Rizzi

Indexing highly repetitive texts - such as genomic databases, software repositories and versioned text collections - has become an important problem since the turn of the millennium. A relevant compressibility measure for repetitive texts…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Nicola Prezza

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is a word transformation introduced in 1994 for Data Compression. It has become a fundamental tool for designing self-indexing data structures, with important applications in several area in science and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Raffaele Giancarlo , Giovanni Manzini , Antonio Restivo , Giovanna Rosone , Marinella Sciortino

The Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) is a permutation whose applications are prevalent in data compression and text indexing. The bijective BWT (BBWT) is a bijective variant of it. Although it is known that the BWT can be constructed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hideo Bannai , Juha Kärkkäinen , Dominik Köppl , Marcin Picatkowski

Given a string of characters, the Burrows-Wheeler Transform rearranges the characters in it so as to produce another string of the same length which is more amenable to compression techniques such as move to front, run-length encoding, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Joseph Yossi Gil , David Allen Scott

The Positional Burrows--Wheeler Transform (PBWT) is a data structure designed for efficiently representing and querying large collections of sequences, such as haplotype panels in genomics. Forward and backward stepping operations --…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paola Bonizzoni , Davide Cozzi , Younan Gao

We show that both the Lempel Ziv 77- and the 78-factorization of a text of length $n$ on an integer alphabet of size $\sigma$ can be computed in $O(n \lg \lg \sigma)$ time (linear time if we allow randomization) using $O(n \lg \sigma)$ bits…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Dominik Köppl , Kunihiko Sadakane

We investigate two closely related LZ78-based compression schemes: LZMW (an old scheme by Miller and Wegman) and LZD (a recent variant by Goto et al.). Both LZD and LZMW naturally produce a grammar for a string of length $n$; we show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Golnaz Badkobeh , Travis Gagie , Shunsuke Inenaga , Tomasz Kociumaka , Dmitry Kosolobov , Simon J. Puglisi

The Burrows-Wheeler-Transform (BWT) is an invertible permutation of a text known to be highly compressible but also useful for sequence analysis, what makes the BWT highly attractive for lossless data compression. In this paper, we present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Uwe Baier

Consider a text $T [1..n]$ prefixed by a reference sequence $R = T [1..\ell]$. We show how, given $R$ and the $z'$-phrase relative Lempel-Ziv parse of $T [\ell + 1..n]$ with respect to $R$, we can build the LZ77 parse of $T$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Travis Gagie

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) of a string is an invertible permutation of the string, which can be used for data compression and compact indexes for string pattern matching. Ganguly et al. [SODA, 2017] introduced the parameterized BWT…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shogen Kawanami , Kento Iseri , Tomohiro I

We consider the problem of {\em restructuring} compressed texts without explicit decompression. We present algorithms which allow conversions from compressed representations of a string $T$ produced by any grammar-based compression…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-15 Keisuke Goto , Shirou Maruyama , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Hiroshi Sakamoto , Masayuki Takeda