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We consider the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem with the restriction that the common subsequence is required to consist of at least $k$ length substrings. First, we show an $O(mn)$ time algorithm for the problem which gives a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Yohei Ueki , Diptarama , Masatoshi Kurihara , Yoshiaki Matsuoka , Kazuyuki Narisawa , Ryo Yoshinaka , Hideo Bannai , Shunsuke Inenaga , Ayumi Shinohara

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

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

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

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

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 {\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 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

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose a data structure, a quadruple neighbor list (QN-list, for short), to support real time queries of all longest increasing subsequence (LIS) and LIS with constraints over sequential data streams. The QN-List built by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Youhuan Li , Lei Zou , Huaming Zhang , Dongyan Zhao

Calculating the length of a longest common subsequence (LCS) of two strings $A$ and $B$ of length $n$ and $m$ is a classic research topic, with many worst-case oriented results known. We present two algorithms for LCS length calculation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Szymon Grabowski

One of the most fundamental method for comparing two given strings $A$ and $B$ is the longest common subsequence (LCS), where the task is to find (the length) of an LCS of $A$ and $B$. In this paper, we deal with the STR-IC-LCS problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuki Yonemoto , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai

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

Given a sequence of integers, we want to find a longest increasing subsequence of the sequence. It is known that this problem can be solved in $O(n \log n)$ time and space. Our goal in this paper is to reduce the space consumption while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Masashi Kiyomi , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi , Pascal Schweitzer , Jun Tarui

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 consider the problem of finding, given two documents of total length $n$, a longest string occurring as a substring of both documents. This problem, known as the Longest Common Substring (LCS) problem, has a classic $O(n)$-time solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Stav Ben-Nun , Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , 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