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We offer to apply the powerful Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm to find the spreading rate variation by comparing profiles of marine magnetic anomalies with the synthetic field constructed by the magnetic polarity reference scale. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-12 S. A. Ivanov , S. A. Merkuriev

Over the last decade, time series motif discovery has emerged as a useful primitive for many downstream analytical tasks, including clustering, classification, rule discovery, segmentation, and summarization. In parallel, there has been an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sara Alaee , Kaveh Kamgar , Eamonn Keogh

The goal of temporal alignment is to establish time correspondence between two sequences, which has many applications in a variety of areas such as speech processing, bioinformatics, computer vision, and computer graphics. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-20 Makoto Yamada , Leonid Sigal , Michalis Raptis , Masashi Sugiyama

Sublinear time quantum algorithms have been established for many fundamental problems on strings. This work demonstrates that new, faster quantum algorithms can be designed when the string is highly compressible. We focus on two popular and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Daniel Gibney , Sharma V. Thankachan

Temporal alignment of multiple signals through time warping is crucial in many fields, such as classification within speech recognition or robot motion learning. Almost all related works are limited to data in Euclidean space. Although an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Julian Richter , Christopher A. Erdös , Christian Scheurer , Jochen J. Steil , Niels Dehio

Hand and arm gesture recognition using the radio frequency (RF) sensing modality proves valuable in manmachine interface and smart environment. In this paper, we use curve matching techniques for measuring the similarity of the maximum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Moeness G. Amin , Zhengxin Zeng , Tao Shan

Approximate string matching is the problem of finding all factors of a text t of length n that are at a distance at most k from a pattern x of length m. Approximate circular string matching is the problem of finding all factors of t that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Carl Barton , Costas S. Iliopoulos , Solon P. Pissis

The goal of dynamic time warping is to transform or warp time in order to approximately align two signals together. We pose the choice of warping function as an optimization problem with several terms in the objective. The first term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Dave Deriso , Stephen Boyd

The edit distance $ed(X,Y)$ of two strings $X,Y\in \Sigma^*$ is the minimum number of character edits (insertions, deletions, and substitutions) needed to transform $X$ into $Y$. Its weighted counterpart $ed^w(X,Y)$ minimizes the total cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Itai Boneh , Egor Gorbachev , Tomasz Kociumaka

The Earth Mover's Distance is a popular similarity measure in several branches of computer science. It measures the minimum total edge length of a perfect matching between two point sets. The Earth Mover's Distance under Translation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Karl Bringmann , Frank Staals , Karol Węgrzycki , Geert van Wordragen

In this paper, we study CPU utilization time patterns of several Map-Reduce applications. After extracting running patterns of several applications, the patterns with their statistical information are saved in a reference database to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , Javid Taheri , Albert Y. Zomaya , Reza Moraveji

Time series classification is an important data mining task that has received a lot of interest in the past two decades. Due to the label scarcity in practice, semi-supervised time series classification with only a few labeled samples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Wenjie Xi , Arnav Jain , Li Zhang , Jessica Lin

We study the classical approximate string matching problem, that is, given strings $P$ and $Q$ and an error threshold $k$, find all ending positions of substrings of $Q$ whose edit distance to $P$ is at most $k$. Let $P$ and $Q$ have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-21 Philip Bille

The deviation of the observed frequency of a word $w$ from its expected frequency in a given sequence $x$ is used to determine whether or not the word is avoided. This concept is particularly useful in DNA linguistic analysis. The value of…

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 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

Elastic distances like dynamic time warping (DTW) are central to time series machine learning because they compare sequences under local temporal misalignment. Soft-DTW is an adaptation of DTW that can be used as a gradient-based loss by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall

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

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

Classically, the edit distance of two length-$n$ strings can be computed in $O(n^2)$ time, whereas an $O(n^{2-\epsilon})$-time procedure would falsify the Orthogonal Vectors Hypothesis. If the edit distance does not exceed $k$, the running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Daniel Gibney , Ce Jin , Tomasz Kociumaka , Sharma V. Thankachan