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Edit distance is a fundamental measure of distance between strings and has been widely studied in computer science. While the problem of estimating edit distance has been studied extensively, the equally important question of actually…

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We introduce an algorithm that performs a one-directional mesh overset of a parallel forest of octrees with another distributed mesh of unrelated partition. The forest mesh consists of several adaptively refined octrees. Individual smooth…

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In order to develop statistical methods for shapes with a tree-structure, we construct a shape space framework for tree-like shapes and study metrics on the shape space. This shape space has singularities, corresponding to topological…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-24 Aasa Feragen , Pechin Lo , Marleen de Bruijne , Mads Nielsen , Francois Lauze

In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of subgraph reconfiguration problems in directed graphs. More specifically, we focus on the problem of reconfiguring arborescences in a digraph, where an arborescence is a directed…

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In this paper, we consider a tree inference problem motivated by the critical problem in single-cell genomics of reconstructing dynamic cellular processes from sequencing data. In particular, given a population of cells sampled from such a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Elodie Maignant , Tim Conrad , Christoph von Tycowicz

Recursive partitioning is the core of several statistical methods including CART, random forest, and boosted trees. Despite the popularity of tree based methods, to date, there did not exist methods for combining multiple trees into a…

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The Hausdorff distance is a relatively new measure of similarity of graphs. The notion of the Hausdorff distance considers a special kind of a common subgraph of the compared graphs and depends on the structural properties outside of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Aleksander Kelenc

Creating accurate 3D models of tree topology is an important task for tree pruning. The 3D model is used to decide which branches to prune and then to execute the pruning cuts. Previous methods for creating 3D tree models have typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Alexander You , Aarushi Mehta , Luke Strohbehn , Jochen Hemming , Cindy Grimm , Joseph R. Davidson

This report evaluates the efficiency of Graph Edit Distance (GED) computation for graph similarity search, comparing Cascading Metric Trees (CMT) with brute-force verification. Despite the anticipated advantages of CMT, our findings…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Wenqi Marshall Guo , Jeffrey Uhlmann

It is an open question whether there exists a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the rotation distances between pairs of extended ordered binary trees. The problem of computing the rotation distance between an arbitrary pair of trees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Sean Cleary , Roland Maio

This paper provides a short and transparent solution for the covering cost of white-grey trees which play a crucial role in the algorithm of Bergeron {\it et al.}\ to compute the rearrangement distance between two multichromosomal genomes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Péter L. Erdős , Lajos Soukup , Jens Stoye

Tree rotations (left and right) are basic local deformations allowing to transform between two unlabeled binary trees of the same size. Hence, there is a natural problem of practically finding such transformation path with low number of…

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Treewidth is a measure of how tree-like a graph is. It has many important algorithmic applications because many NP-hard problems on general graphs become tractable when restricted to graphs of bounded treewidth. Algorithms for problems on…

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Agreement forests continue to play a central role in the comparison of phylogenetic trees since their introduction more than 25 years ago. More specifically, they are used to characterise several distances that are based on tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Steven Kelk , Simone Linz , Charles Semple

A variety of algorithms have been proposed for reconstructing trees that show the evolutionary relationships between species by comparing differences in genetic data across present-day taxa. If the leaf-to-leaf distances in a tree can be…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-18 Olivier Gascuel , Mike Steel

Mesh deformation plays a pivotal role in many 3D vision tasks including dynamic simulations, rendering, and reconstruction. However, defining an efficient discrepancy between predicted and target meshes remains an open problem. A prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tung Le , Khai Nguyen , Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Nhat Ho , Xiaohui Xie

Rotation distance measures the difference in shape between binary trees of the same size by counting the minimum number of rotations needed to transform one tree to the other. We describe several types of rotation distance where…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Sean Cleary , Jennifer Taback

Finding an optimal assignment between two sets of objects is a fundamental problem arising in many applications, including the matching of `bag-of-words' representations in natural language processing and computer vision. Solving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Nils M. Kriege , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Franka Bause , Richard C. Wilson

Merge trees are a topological descriptor of a filtered space that enriches the degree zero barcode with its merge structure. The space of merge trees comes equipped with an interleaving distance $d_I$, which prompts a naive question: is the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-04 David Beers , Gillian Grindstaff

The graph edit distance (GED) is a flexible distance measure which is widely used for inexact graph matching. Since its exact computation is NP-hard, heuristics are used in practice. A popular approach is to obtain upper bounds for GED via…

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