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In this work, we consider a variant of the classical Longest Common Subsequence problem called Doubly-Constrained Longest Common Subsequence (DC-LCS). Given two strings s1 and s2 over an alphabet A, a set C_s of strings, and a function Co…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Riccardo Dondi , Yuri Pirola

In the classic longest common substring (LCS) problem, we are given two strings $S$ and $T$, each of length at most $n$, over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, and we are asked to find a longest string occurring as a fragment of both $S$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakub Radoszewski , Solon P. Pissis

In this paper we address the constrained longest common subsequence problem. Given two sequences $X$, $Y$ and a constrained sequence $P$, a sequence $Z$ is a constrained longest common subsequence for $X$ and $Y$ with respect to $P$ if $Z$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Francis Yuk Lun Chin , Ngai Lam Ho , Alfredo De Santis , S. K. Kim

We study sketching and streaming algorithms for the Longest Common Subsequence problem (LCS) on strings of small alphabet size $|\Sigma|$. For the problem of deciding whether the LCS of strings $x,y$ has length at least $L$, we obtain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Karl Bringmann , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem, in which a constraining sequence of length $s$ must be included as a substring and the other constraining sequence of length $t$ must be excluded as a subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

In this note, we consider the complexity of maintaining the longest increasing subsequence (LIS) of an array under (i) inserting an element, and (ii) deleting an element of an array. We show that no algorithm can support queries and updates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Paweł Gawrychowski , Wojciech Janczewski

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem with multiple substring inclusive constraints. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a set of $d$ constraints $P=\{P_1,\cdots,P_d\}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

We present a practical algorithm for the cyclic longest common subsequence (CLCS) problem that runs in O(mn) time, where m and n are the lengths of the two input strings. While this is not necessarily an asymptotic improvement over the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Andy Nguyen

In the longest common substring problem, we are given two strings of length $n$ and must find a substring of maximal length that occurs in both strings. It is well known that the problem can be solved in linear time, but the solution is not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakub Radoszewski , Tatiana Starikovskaya

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem, the string-excluding constrained LCS problem. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a constraint string $P$ of length $r$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Lei Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Yingjie Wu , Daxin Zhu

A repetition free Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two sequences x and y is an LCS of x and y where each symbol may appear at most once. Let R denote the length of a repetition free LCS of two sequences of n symbols each one chosen…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Marcos Kiwi , Cristina G. Fernandes

The {\em longest common subsequence (LCS)} problem is a classic and well-studied problem in computer science. LCS is a central problem in stringology and finds broad applications in text compression, error-detecting codes and biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Masud Hasan , Sumaiya Iqbal , M. Sohel Rahman

The longest square subsequence (LSS) problem consists of computing a longest subsequence of a given string $S$ that is a square, i.e., a longest subsequence of form $XX$ appearing in $S$. It is known that an LSS of a string $S$ of length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Takafumi Inoue , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai

The recently introduced longest common substring with $k$-mismatches ($k$-LCF) problem is to find, given two sequences $S_1$ and $S_2$ of length $n$ each, a longest substring $A_1$ of $S_1$ and $A_2$ of $S_2$ such that the Hamming distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Szymon Grabowski

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is a very important problem in math- ematics, which has a broad application in scheduling problems, physics and bioinformatics. It is known that the given two random sequences of infinite…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Kang Ning , Kwok Pui Choi

We provide a deterministic algorithm that outputs an $O(n^{3/4} \log n)$-approximation for the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two input sequences of length $n$ in near-linear time. This is the first deterministic approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Itai Boneh , Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

The problem of finding the longest common subsequence (LCS) for a set of sequences is a very interesting and challenging problem in computer science. This problem is NP-complete, but because of its importance, many heuristic algorithms have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Kang Ning

This note provides very simple, efficient algorithms for computing the number of distinct longest common subsequences of two input strings and for computing the number of LCS embeddings.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald I. Greenberg

Longest common substring (LCS), longest palindrome substring (LPS), and Ulam distance (UL) are three fundamental string problems that can be classically solved in near linear time. In this work, we present sublinear time quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 François Le Gall , Saeed Seddighin

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is a fundamental problem of sequence comparison. A natural approximation to this problem is a model in which every pairs of letters of two ``sequences'' are matched independently of the other…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Boutet de Monvel