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Rotation distance between rooted binary trees measures the number of simple operations it takes to transform one tree into another. There are no known polynomial-time algorithms for computing rotation distance. We give an efficient,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sean Cleary , Katherine St. John

Rotation distance between trees measures the number of simple operations it takes to transform one tree into another. There are no known polynomial-time algorithms for computing rotation distance. In the case of ordered rooted trees, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sean Cleary , Katherine St. John

Graph edit distance (GED) is a powerful and flexible graph matching paradigm that can be used to address different tasks in structural pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, some new binary linear programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Julien Lerouge , Zeina Abu-Aisheh , Romain Raveaux , Pierre Héroux , Sébastien Adam

We study inferring a tree-structured representation from a single image for object shading. Prior work typically uses the parametric or measured representation to model shading, which is neither interpretable nor easily editable. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Chen Geng , Hong-Xing Yu , Sharon Zhang , Maneesh Agrawala , Jiajun Wu

Information distributed through the Web keeps growing faster day by day, and for this reason, several techniques for extracting Web data have been suggested during last years. Often, extraction tasks are performed through so called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Emilio Ferrara , Robert Baumgartner

While most neural generative models generate outputs in a single pass, the human creative process is usually one of iterative building and refinement. Recent work has proposed models of editing processes, but these mostly focus on editing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ziyu Yao , Frank F. Xu , Pengcheng Yin , Huan Sun , Graham Neubig

The normalized edit distance is one of the distances derived from the edit distance. It is useful in some applications because it takes into account the lengths of the two strings compared. The normalized edit distance is not defined in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

Many natural language processing (NLP) applications require the computation of similarities between pairs of syntactic or semantic trees. Many researchers have used tree edit distance for this task, but this technique suffers from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Maytham Alabbas , Allan Ramsay

The problem of comparing trees representing the evolutionary histories of cancerous tumors has turned out to be crucial, since there is a variety of different methods which typically infer multiple possible trees. A departure from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Giulia Bernardini , Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Murray Patterson

Merge trees are a common topological descriptor for data with a hierarchical component, such as terrains and scalar fields. The interleaving distance, in turn, is a common distance for comparing merge trees. However, the interleaving…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Thijs Beurskens , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

Comparative visualization of scalar fields is often facilitated using similarity measures such as edit distances. In this paper, we describe a novel approach for similarity analysis of scalar fields that combines two recently introduced…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Florian Wetzels , Mathieu Pont , Julien Tierny , Christoph Garth

The last decade brought a significant increase in the amount of data and a variety of new inference methods for reconstructing the detailed evolutionary history of various cancers. This brings the need of designing efficient procedures for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Giulia Bernardini , Paola Bonizzoni , Paweł Gawrychowski

A method for creating a forest of model trees to fit samples of a function defined on images is described in several steps: down-sampling the images, determining a tree's hyperplanes, applying convolutions to the hyperplanes to handle small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 William Ward Armstrong , Hongyi Li , Jun Xu

There exists a bijection between one stack sortable permutations --permutations which avoid the pattern 231-- and planar trees. We define an edit distance between permutations which is coherent with the standard edit distance between trees.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anne Micheli , Dominique Rossin

There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sawyer Jack Robertson

The Learnable Tree Filter presents a remarkable approach to model structure-preserving relations for semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, the intrinsic geometric constraint forces it to focus on the regions with close spatial distance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lin Song , Yanwei Li , Zhengkai Jiang , Zeming Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

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

Galled trees, directed acyclic graphs that model evolutionary histories with isolated hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and the existence of polynomial time algorithms for their…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-06-08 Gabriel Cardona , Merce Llabres , Francesc Rossello , Gabriel Valiente

We study the problem of how well a tree metric is able to preserve the sum of pairwise distances of an arbitrary metric. This problem is closely related to low-stretch metric embeddings and is interesting by its own flavor from the line of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Mong-Jen Kao , Der-Tsai Lee , Dorothea Wagner

Tree-cut width is a parameter that has been introduced as an attempt to obtain an analogue of treewidth for edge cuts. Unfortunately, in spite of its desirable structural properties, it turned out that tree-cut width falls short as an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna