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Gap Hamming Distance is a well-studied problem in communication complexity, in which Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their respective n-bit inputs is less than n/2-sqrt(n) or greater than n/2+sqrt(n). We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-12-31 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti , Oded Regev , Thomas Vidick , Ronald de Wolf

We investigate the randomized and quantum communication complexity of the Hamming Distance problem, which is to determine if the Hamming distance between two n-bit strings is no less than a threshold d. We prove a quantum lower bound of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Wei Huang , Yaoyun Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Yufan Zhu

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

Alice and Bob want to know if two strings of length n are almost equal. That is, do they differ on \textit{at most} a bits? Let 0\leq a\leq n-1. We show that any deterministic protocol, as well as any error-free quantum protocol (C*…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Andris Ambainis , William Gasarch , Aravind Srinavasan , Andrey Utis

We prove an optimal $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the randomized communication complexity of the much-studied Gap-Hamming-Distance problem. As a consequence, we obtain essentially optimal multi-pass space lower bounds in the data stream model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Amit Chakrabarti , Oded Regev

The Hamming distance is ubiquitous in computing. Its computation gets expensive when one needs to compare a string against many strings. Quantum computers (QCs) may speed up the comparison. In this paper, we extend an existing algorithm for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mushahid Khan , Andriy Miranskyy

In this paper we obtain some bounds on communication complexity of Gap Hamming Distance problem ($\mathsf{GHD}^n_{L, U}$): Alice and Bob are given binary string of length $n$ and they are guaranteed that Hamming distance between their…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Alexander Kozachinskiy

The evaluation of the minimum distance of linear block codes remains an open problem in coding theory, and it is not easy to determine its true value by classical methods, for this reason the problem has been solved in the literature with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Mohamed Askali , Ahmed Azouaoui , Saïd Nouh , Mostafa Belkasmi

This article investigates the probabilistic relationship between quantum classification of Boolean functions and their Hamming distance. By integrating concepts from quantum computing, information theory, and combinatorics, we explore how…

In this paper, we present and study the \emph{Hamming distance oracle problem}. In this problem, the task is to preprocess two strings $S$ and $T$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, respectively, to obtain a data-structure that is able to answer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Itai Boneh , Dvir Fried , Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

We study bounded deviation of non-deterministic finite transducers under the Hamming distance: the bounded comparison problem asks, given two transducers and $k \in \mathbb{N}$, whether for every input the two transducers produce words at…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Luc Dartois , Pierre-Cyrille Héam , Ismaël Jecker , Silvio Vescovo

The weighted-Hamming metric generalizes the Hamming metric by assigning different weights to blocks of coordinates. It is well-suited for applications such as coding over independent parallel channels, each of which has a different level of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

The asymptotic rate vs. distance problem is a long-standing fundamental problem in coding theory. The best upper bound to date was given in 1977 and has received since then numerous proofs and interpretations. Here we provide a new,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Nati Linial , Elyassaf Loyfer

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

Sensitivity measures how much the output of an algorithm changes, in terms of Hamming distance, when part of the input is modified. While approximation algorithms with low sensitivity have been developed for many problems, no sensitivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Noah Fleming , Yuichi Yoshida

The quantum error threshold is the highest (model-dependent) noise rate which we can tolerate and still quantum-compute to arbitrary accuracy. Although noise thresholds are frequently estimated for the Steane seven-qubit, distance-three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben W. Reichardt

Alternative novel measures of the distance between any two partitions of a n-set are proposed and compared, together with a main existing one, namely 'partition-distance' D(.,.). The comparison achieves by checking their restriction to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-06-24 Giovanni Rossi

Let x, y be strings of equal length. The Hamming distance h(x,y) between x and y is the number of positions in which x and y differ. If x is a cyclic shift of y, we say x and y are conjugates. We consider f(x,y), the Hamming distance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-08-15 Jeffrey Shallit

A famous open problem in the theory of quantum error-correcting codes is whether or not the parameters of an impure quantum code can violate the quantum Hamming bound for pure quantum codes. We partially solve this problem. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-23 Zhuo Li , Lijuan Xing

Many consensus string problems are based on Hamming distance. We replace Hamming distance by the more flexible (e.g., easily coping with different input string lengths) dynamic time warping distance, best known from applications in time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Nathan Schaar , Vincent Froese , Rolf Niedermeier
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