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The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is the problem of finding a subsequence among a set of strings that has two properties of being common to all and is the longest. The LCS has applications in computational biology and text editing, among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Alireza Abdi , Masih Hajsaeedi , Mohsen Hooshmand

Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS) is a fundamental statistic of a sequence, and has been studied for decades. While the LIS of a sequence of length $n$ can be computed exactly in time $O(n\log n)$, the complexity of estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Alexandr Andoni , Negev Shekel Nosatzki , Sandip Sinha , Clifford Stein

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

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

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

The longest common subsequence (LCS) is a fundamental problem in string processing which has numerous algorithmic studies, extensions, and applications. A sequence $u_1, \ldots, u_f$ of $f$ strings s said to be an ($f$-)segmentation of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yuki Yonemoto , Takuya Mieno , Shunsuke Inenaga , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

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

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

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

Finding an Approximate Longest Common Substring (ALCS) within a given set $S=\{s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_m\}$ of $m \ge 2$ strings is a key problem in computational biology, such as identifying related mutations across multiple genetic sequences. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hamed Hasibi , Neerja Mhaskar , W. F. Smyth

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

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

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is a fundamental problem of sequence comparison. A natural approximation to this problem is a model in which every pairs of letters of two ``sequences'' are matched independently of the other…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Boutet de Monvel

We introduce the Longest Common Circular Factor (LCCF) problem in which, given strings $S$ and $T$ of length $n$, we are to compute the longest factor of $S$ whose cyclic shift occurs as a factor of $T$. It is a new similarity measure, an…

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

A classical measure of string comparison is given by the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem on a pair of strings. We consider its generalisation, called the semi-local LCS problem, which arises naturally in many string-related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alexander Tiskin

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

Finding the common subsequences of $L$ multiple strings has many applications in the area of bioinformatics, computational linguistics, and information retrieval. A well-known result states that finding a Longest Common Subsequence (LCS)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Jin Cao , Dewei Zhong

The problem of finding a longest common subsequence of two main sequences with some constraint that must be a substring of the result (STR-IC-LCS) was formulated recently. It is a variant of the constrained longest common subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Sebastian Deorowicz

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