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We revisit the problem of computing the edit distance of a regular language given via an NFA. This problem relates to the inherent maximal error-detecting capability of the language in question. We present an efficient algorithm for solving…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Lila Kari , Stavros Konstantinidis , Steffen Kopecki , Meng Yang

Given a pair of strings, the problems of computing their Longest Common Subsequence and Edit Distance have been extensively studied for decades. For exact algorithms, LCS and Edit Distance (with character insertions and deletions) are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Aviad Rubinstein , Zhao Song

In this paper we are interested in indexing texts for substring matching queries with one edit error. That is, given a text $T$ of $n$ characters over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, we are asked to build a data structure that answers the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Djamal Belazzougui

Edit distance is an important measure of string similarity. It counts the number of insertions, deletions and substitutions one has to make to a string $x$ to get a string $y$. In this paper we design an almost linear-size sketching scheme…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Michal Koucký , Michael Saks

We show that the edit distance between two run-length encoded strings of compressed lengths $m$ and $n$ respectively, can be computed in $\mathcal{O}(mn\log(mn))$ time. This improves the previous record by a factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Raphaël Clifford , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tomasz Kociumaka , Daniel P. Martin , Przemysław Uznański

String similarity, longest common subsequence and shortest edit scripts are the triplets of problem that related to each other. There are different algorithms exist to generate edit script by solving longest common subsequence problem. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-19 P. Prakash Maria Liju

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

We study approximation algorithms for the following three string measures that are widely used in practice: edit distance (ED), longest common subsequence (LCS), and longest increasing sequence (LIS). All three problems can be solved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Kuan Cheng , Zhengzhong Jin , Xin Li , Yu Zheng

The edit distance between strings classically assigns unit cost to every character insertion, deletion, and substitution, whereas the Hamming distance only allows substitutions. In many real-life scenarios, insertions and deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Elazar Goldenberg , Tomasz Kociumaka , Robert Krauthgamer , Barna Saha

In a way similar to the string-to-string correction problem we address time series similarity in the light of a time-series-to-time-series-correction problem for which the similarity between two time series is measured as the minimum cost…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-28 Pierre-François Marteau

Edit Distance is a classic family of dynamic programming problems, among which Time Warp Edit Distance refines the problem with the notion of a metric and temporal elasticity. A novel Improved Time Warp Edit Distance algorithm that is both…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Garrett Wright

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

Analyzing patterns in data streams generated by network traffic, sensor networks, or satellite feeds is a challenge for systems in which the available storage is limited. In addition, real data is noisy, which makes designing data stream…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Elena Grigorescu , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Samson Zhou

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 (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

Approximate pattern matching is a natural and well-studied problem on strings: Given a text $T$, a pattern $P$, and a threshold $k$, find (the starting positions of) all substrings of $T$ that are at distance at most $k$ from $P$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Philip Wellnitz

The Dyck language, which consists of well-balanced sequences of parentheses, is one of the most fundamental context-free languages. The Dyck edit distance quantifies the number of edits (character insertions, deletions, and substitutions)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Debarati Das , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha

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

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

In the $k$-Edit Circular Pattern Matching ($k$-Edit CPM) problem, we are given a length-$n$ text $T$, a length-$m$ pattern $P$, and a positive integer threshold $k$, and we are to report all starting positions of the substrings of $T$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski , Wojciech Rytter , Tomasz Waleń , Wiktor Zuba