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Tree edit distance is a well-studied measure of dissimilarity between rooted trees with node labels. It can be computed in $O(n^3)$ time [Demaine, Mozes, Rossman, and Weimann, ICALP 2007], and fine-grained hardness results suggest that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

The tree edit distance problem is a natural generalization of the classic string edit distance problem. Given two ordered, edge-labeled trees $T_1$ and $T_2$, the edit distance between $T_1$ and $T_2$ is defined as the minimum total cost of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Krzysztof Pióro

The tree edit distance (TED) between two rooted ordered trees with $n$ nodes labeled from an alphabet $\Sigma$ is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of valid operations consisting of insertions, deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jakob Nogler , Adam Polak , Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu , Christopher Ye

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

The (unweighted) tree edit distance problem for $n$ node trees asks to compute a measure of dissimilarity between two rooted trees with node labels. The current best algorithm from more than a decade ago runs in $O(n ^ 3)$ time [Demaine,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Xiao Mao

Edit distance between trees is a natural generalization of the classical edit distance between strings, in which the allowed elementary operations are contraction, uncontraction and relabeling of an edge. Demaine et al. [ACM Trans. on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski

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

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

Given a context free language $\mathcal{L(G)}$ over alphabet $\Sigma$ and a string $s \in \Sigma^*$, {\em the language edit distance} problem seeks the minimum number of edits (insertions, deletions and substitutions) required to convert…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 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 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

String Edit Distance is a more-than-classical problem whose behavior in the dynamic setting, where the strings are updated over time, is well studied. A single-character substitution, insertion, or deletion can be processed in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingbing Hu , Jakob Nogler , Barna Saha

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 (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

Kondo et al. (DS 2014) proposed methods for computing distances between unordered rooted trees by transforming an instance of the distance computing problem into an instance of the integer programming problem. They showed that the tree edit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Eunpyeong Hong , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Akihiro Yamamoto

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

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

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

We present the first dynamic algorithms for Dyck and tree edit distances with subpolynomial update times. Dyck edit distance measures how far a parenthesis string is from a well-parenthesized expression, while tree edit distance quantifies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 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
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