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Computing the edit distance of two strings is one of the most basic problems in computer science and combinatorial optimization. Tree edit distance is a natural generalization of edit distance in which the task is to compute a measure of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Debarati Das , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha , Hamed Saleh

Given a context free language $\mathcal{L(G)}$ over alphabet $\Sigma$ and a string $s \in \Sigma^*$, {\em the language edit distance} problem seeks the minimum number of edits (insertions, deletions and substitutions) required to convert…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha

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

The edit distance between two strings is defined as the smallest number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions that need to be made to transform one of the strings to another one. Approximating edit distance in subquadratic time is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Mahdi Boroujeni , Soheil Ehsani , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Saeed Seddighin

Edit distance is a measurement of similarity between two sequences such as strings, point sequences, or polygonal curves. Many matching problems from a variety of areas, such as signal analysis, bioinformatics, etc., need to be solved in a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Kyle Fox , Xinyi Li

We consider the approximate pattern matching problem under the edit distance. Given a text $T$ of length $n$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$, and a threshold $k$, the task is to find the starting positions of all substrings of $T$ that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Philip Wellnitz

Edit distance is a measure of similarity of two strings based on the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into the other. The edit distance can be computed exactly using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Elazar Goldenberg , Michal Koucky , Michael Saks

A Dyck sequence is a sequence of opening and closing parentheses (of various types) that is balanced. The Dyck edit distance of a given sequence of parentheses $S$ is the smallest number of edit operations (insertions, deletions, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dvir Fried , Shay Golan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Tree edit distance is a well-studied measure of dissimilarity between rooted trees with node labels. It can be computed in $O(n^3)$ time [Demaine, Mozes, Rossman, and Weimann, ICALP 2007], and fine-grained hardness results suggest that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

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

We present an algorithm for approximating the edit distance $\operatorname{ed}(x, y)$ between two strings $x$ and $y$ in time parameterized by the degree to which one of the strings $x$ satisfies a natural pseudorandomness property. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-13 William Kuszmaul

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

We consider the approximate pattern matching problem under edit distance. In this problem we are given a pattern $P$ of length $w$ and a text $T$ of length $n$ over some alphabet $\Sigma$, and a positive integer $k$. The goal is to find all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Michal Koucky

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

Edit distance similarity search, also called approximate pattern matching, is a fundamental problem with widespread database applications. The goal of the problem is to preprocess $n$ strings of length $d$, to quickly answer queries $q$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Samuel McCauley

In many applications, it is necessary to determine the string similarity. Edit distance[WF74] approach is a classic method to determine Field Similarity. A well known dynamic programming algorithm [GUS97] is used to calculate edit distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Qi Xiao Yang , Sung Sam Yuan , Lu Chun , Li Zhao , Sun Peng

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

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

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

The text-to-pattern Hamming distances problem asks to compute the Hamming distances between a given pattern of length $m$ and all length-$m$ substrings of a given text of length $n\ge m$. We focus on the $k$-mismatch version of the problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Raphaël Clifford , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tomasz Kociumaka , Daniel P. Martin , Przemysław Uznański