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Many problems that can be solved in quadratic time have bit-parallel speed-ups with factor $w$, where $w$ is the computer word size. For example, edit distance of two strings of length $n$ can be solved in $O(n^2/w)$ time. In a reasonable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Massimo Equi , Arianne Meijer-van de Griend , Veli Mäkinen

Let $\tau$ and $\sigma$ be two polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for any fixed $d$. Suppose that $\tau$ and $\sigma$ have $n$ and $m$ vertices, respectively, and $m\le n$. While conditional lower bounds prevent approximating the Fr\'echet…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang , Shuo Zhang

The DTW Barycenter Averaging (DBA) algorithm is a widely used algorithm for estimating the mean of a given set of point sequences. In this context, the mean is defined as a point sequence that minimises the sum of dynamic time warping…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Frederik Brüning , Anne Driemel , Alperen Ergür , Heiko Röglin

The nearest neighbor method together with the dynamic time warping (DTW) distance is one of the most popular approaches in time series classification. This method suffers from high storage and computation requirements for large training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Brijnesh Jain , David Schultz

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

This paper presents an efficient approach for subsequence search in data streams. The problem consists in identifying coherent repetitions of a given reference time-series, eventually multi-variate, within a longer data stream. Dynamic Time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Antonio Candelieri , Stanislav Fedorov , Enza Messina

In this paper, we develop deterministic fully dynamic algorithms for computing approximate distances in a graph with worst-case update time guarantees. In particular, we obtain improved dynamic algorithms that, given an unweighted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari

Time series classification is an important data mining task that has received a lot of interest in the past two decades. Due to the label scarcity in practice, semi-supervised time series classification with only a few labeled samples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Wenjie Xi , Arnav Jain , Li Zhang , Jessica Lin

Many tasks in music information retrieval (MIR) involve weakly aligned data, where exact temporal correspondences are unknown. The connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss is a standard technique to learn feature representations…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Michael Krause , Christof Weiß , Meinard Müller

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a powerful technique for estimating high-resolution subsurface velocity models by minimizing the discrepancy between modeled and observed seismic data. However, the oscillatory nature of seismic waveforms…

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

Motif discovery is a fundamental step in data mining tasks for time-series data such as clustering, classification and anomaly detection. Even though many papers have addressed the problem of how to find motifs in time-series by proposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Maria Inês Silva , Roberto Henriques

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

Time series are high-dimensional and complex data objects, making their efficient search and indexing a longstanding challenge in data mining. Building on a recently introduced similarity measure, namely Multiscale Dubuc Distance (MDD),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Azim Ahmadzadeh , Mahsa Khazaei , Elaina Rohlfing

Computing a sample mean of time series under dynamic time warping (DTW) is NP-hard. Consequently, there is an ongoing research effort to devise efficient heuristics. The majority of heuristics have been developed for the constrained sample…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Brijnesh Jain , Vincent Froese , David Schultz

Many smart grid applications involve data mining, clustering, classification, identification, and anomaly detection, among others. These applications primarily depend on the measurement of similarity, which is the distance between different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Rui Yuan , Hossein Ranjbar , S. Ali Pourmousavi , Wen L. Soong , Andrew J. Black , Jon A. R. Liisberg , Julian Lemos-Vinasco

In recent years, neural networks achieved much success in various applications. The main challenge in training deep neural networks is the lack of sufficient data to improve the model's generalization and avoid overfitting. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Mohammad Akyash , Hoda Mohammadzade , Hamid Behroozi

Temporal alignment of multiple signals through time warping is crucial in many fields, such as classification within speech recognition or robot motion learning. Almost all related works are limited to data in Euclidean space. Although an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Julian Richter , Christopher A. Erdös , Christian Scheurer , Jochen J. Steil , Niels Dehio

Distance-based time series anomaly detection methods are prevalent due to their relative non-parametric nature and interpretability. However, the commonly used Euclidean distance is sensitive to noise. While existing works have explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hanyang Yuan , Qinglin Cai , Keting Yin