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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

Finding the longest common subsequence in $k$-length substrings (LCS$k$) is a recently proposed problem motivated by computational biology. This is a generalization of the well-known LCS problem in which matching symbols from two sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Sebastian Deorowicz , Szymon Grabowski

Motivated by computing duplication patterns in sequences, a new fundamental problem called the longest subsequence-repeated subsequence (LSRS) is proposed. Given a sequence $S$ of length $n$, a letter-repeated subsequence is a subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Manuel Lafond , Wenfeng Lai , Adiesha Liyanage , Binhai Zhu

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is a fundamental string similarity measure, and computing the LCS of two strings is a classic algorithms question. A textbook dynamic programming algorithm gives an exact algorithm in quadratic time, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xiaoyu He , Ray Li

Finding the length of the longest increasing subsequence (LIS) is a classic algorithmic problem. Let $n$ denote the size of the array. Simple $O(n\log n)$ algorithms are known for this problem. We develop a polylogarithmic time randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-06 M. Saks , C. Seshadhri

Suppose we want to seek the longest common subsequences (LCSs) of two strings as informative patterns that explain the relationship between the strings. The dynamic programming algorithm gives us a table from which all LCSs can be extracted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yoshifumi Sakai

In this work, we present a plethora of results for the range longest increasing subsequence problem (Range-LIS) and its variants. The input to RLIS is a sequence $S$ of $n$ real numbers and a collection $Q$ of $m$ query ranges, and for each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Karthik C. S. , Saladi Rahul

The longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is a central problem in stringology that finds the longest common subsequence of given two strings $A$ and $B$. More recently, a set of four constrained LCS problems (called generalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Kohei Yamada , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

Two important similarity measures between sequences are the longest common subsequence (LCS) and the dynamic time warping distance (DTWD). The computations of these measures for two given sequences are central tasks in a variety of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Amir Abboud , Arturs Backurs , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We study the problem of computing a longest increasing subsequence in a sequence $S$ of $n$ distinct elements in the presence of persistent comparison errors. In this model, every comparison between two elements can return the wrong result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Barbara Geissmann

Longest Common Subsequence ($LCS$) deals with the problem of measuring similarity of two strings. While this problem has been analyzed for decades, the recent interest stems from a practical observation that considering single characters is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Filip Pavetić , Ivan Katanić , Gustav Matula , Goran Žužić , Mile Šikić

In the longest common substring (LCS) problem, we are given two strings $S$ and $T$, each of length at most $n$, and we are asked to find a longest string occurring as a fragment of both $S$ and $T$. This is a classical and well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amihood Amir , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

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

This paper reformulates the problem of finding a longest common increasing subsequence of the two given input sequences in a very succinct way. An extremely simple linear space algorithm based on the new formula can find a longest common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Tinran Wang , Xiaodong Wang

The 2-LCPS problem, first introduced by Chowdhury et al. [Fundam. Inform., 129(4):329-340, 2014], asks one to compute (the length of) a longest palindromic common subsequence between two given strings $A$ and $B$. We show that the 2-LCPS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Shunsuke Inenaga , Heikki Hyyrö

A noticeable fraction of Algorithms papers in the last few decades improve the running time of well-known algorithms for fundamental problems by logarithmic factors. For example, the $O(n^2)$ dynamic programming solution to the Longest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann

In this paper we define a new problem, motivated by computational biology, $LCSk$ aiming at finding the maximal number of $k$ length $substrings$, matching in both input strings while preserving their order of appearance. The traditional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Gary Benson , Avivit Levy , Riva Shalom

Given a set of $k$ strings $I$, their longest common subsequence (LCS) is the string with the maximum length that is a subset of all the strings in $I$. A data-structure for this problem preprocesses $I$ into a data-structure such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Sepideh Aghamolaei

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

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