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One of the most critical problems in the field of string algorithms is the longest common subsequence problem (LCS). The problem is NP-hard for an arbitrary number of strings but can be solved in polynomial time for a fixed number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Soroush Vahidi , Baruch Schieber , Zhihui Du , David A. Bader

Longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. Apart from theoretical importance, LCS has enormous applications in bioinformatics, revision control systems, and data comparison…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-17 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Xiaorui Sun

Longest Common Substring (LCS) is an important text processing problem, which has recently been investigated in the quantum query model. The decisional version of this problem, LCS with threshold $d$, asks whether two length-$n$ input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Ce Jin , Jakob Nogler

The Longest Common Substring (LCS) and Longest Palindromic Substring (LPS) are classical problems in computer science, representing fundamental challenges in string processing. Both problems can be solved in linear time using a classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Domenico Cantone , Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Caterina Viola

We propose efficient algorithms for enumerating maximal common subsequences (MCSs) of two strings. Efficiency of the algorithms are estimated by the preprocessing-time, space, and delay-time complexities. One algorithm prepares a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Miyuji Hirota , Yoshifumi Sakai

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 substring problem consists in finding a longest string that appears as a (contiguous) substring of two input strings. We consider the dynamic variant of this problem, in which we are to maintain two dynamic strings $S$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Karol Pokorski

We give a near-optimal quantum algorithm for the longest common substring (LCS) problem between two run-length encoded (RLE) strings, with the assumption that the prefix-sums of the run-lengths are given. Our algorithm costs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Tzu-Ching Lee , Han-Hsuan Lin

The Shortest Common Superstring problem (SCS) consists, for a set of strings S = {s_1,...,s_n}, in finding a minimum length string that contains all s_i, 1<= i <= n, as substrings. While a 2+11/30 approximation ratio algorithm has recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Tristan Braquelaire , Marie Gasparoux , Mathieu Raffinot , Raluca Uricaru

In this paper, we consider two versions of the Text Assembling problem. We are given a sequence of strings $s^1,\dots,s^n$ of total length $L$ that is a dictionary, and a string $t$ of length $m$ that is texts. The first version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Kamil Khadiev , Carlos Manuel Bosch Machado , Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

Computation on compressed strings is one of the key approaches to processing massive data sets. We consider local subsequence recognition problems on strings compressed by straight-line programs (SLP), which is closely related to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Alexander Tiskin

Let $A$ and $B$ be two number sequences of length $n$ and $m$, respectively, where $m\le n$. Given a positive number $\delta$, a common almost increasing sequence $s_1\ldots s_k$ is a common subsequence for both $A$ and $B$ such that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Md Tanzeem Rahat , Md. Manzurul Hasan , Debajyoti Mondal

The Longest Common Increasing Subsequence problem (LCIS) is a natural variant of the celebrated Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. For LCIS, as well as for LCS, there is an $O(n^2)$-time algorithm and a SETH-based conditional lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Lech Duraj

The problem of finding longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the fundamental problems in computer science, which finds application in fields such as computational biology, text processing, information retrieval, data compression etc.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Amey Bhangale , Diptarka Chakraborty , Rajendra Kumar

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

Frequent pattern mining is widely used to find ``important'' or ``interesting'' patterns in data. While it is not easy to mathematically define such patterns, maximal frequent patterns are promising candidates, as frequency is a natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Giovanni Buzzega , Alessio Conte , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Giulia Punzi

This study develops an algorithm to solve a variation of the Shortest Common Superstring (SCS) problem. There are two modifications to the base SCS problem. First, one string in the set S is allowed to have up to K mistakes, defined as not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Arthur Gilfanov

The Longest Common Subsequence Problem (LCS) deals with finding the longest subsequence among a given set of strings. The LCS problem is an NP-hard problem which makes it a target for lots of effort to find a better solution with heuristics…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Alireza Abdi , Mohsen Hooshmand

We give a sublinear quantum algorithm for the longest common substring (LCS) problem on the run-length encoded (RLE) inputs, under the assumption that the prefix-sums of the runs are given. Our algorithm costs $\tilde{O}(n^{5/6})\cdot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Tzu-Ching Lee , Han-Hsuan Lin

In the classical longest palindromic substring (LPS) problem, we are given a string $S$ of length $n$, and the task is to output a longest palindromic substring in $S$. Gilbert, Hajiaghayi, Saleh, and Seddighin [SPAA 2023] showed how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Solon P. Pissis