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The $d$-dimensional pattern matching problem is to find an occurrence of a pattern of length $m \times \dots \times m$ within a text of length $n \times \dots \times n$, with $n \ge m$. This task models various problems in text and image…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Ashley Montanaro

We revisit the complexity of approximate pattern matching in an elastic-degenerate string. Such a string is a sequence of $n$ finite sets of strings of total length $N$, and compactly describes a collection of strings obtained by first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Paweł Gawrychowski , Adam Górkiewicz , Pola Marciniak , Solon P. Pissis , Karol Pokorski

In this paper, we consider the $k$-approximate pattern matching problem under differential privacy, where the goal is to report or count all substrings of a given string $S$ which have a Hamming distance at most $k$ to a pattern $P$, or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Teresa Anna Steiner

The problem of finding \emph{distance} between \emph{pattern} of length $m$ and \emph{text} of length $n$ is a typical way of generalizing pattern matching to incorporate dissimilarity score. For both Hamming and $L_1$ distances only a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Przemysław Uznański

In this work, we revisit the fundamental and well-studied problem of approximate pattern matching under edit distance. Given an integer $k$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$, and a text $T$ of length $n \ge m$, the task is to find substrings of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tomasz Kociumaka , Ely Porat , Tatiana Starikovskaya

We study the problem of indexing text with wildcard positions, motivated by the challenge of aligning sequencing data to large genomes that contain millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)---positions known to differ between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-28 Chris Thachuk

Pattern matching can be used to calculate the support of patterns, and is a key issue in sequential pattern mining (or sequence pattern mining). Nonoverlapping pattern matching means that two occurrences cannot use the same character in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Youxi Wu , Bojing Jian , Yan Li , He Jiang , Xindong Wu

In this paper we further investigate the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph. The first non-trivial algorithm, with running time $O(mn)$, dates back to K\"{o}nig's work in 1916 (here $m=nd$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-18 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Given a text $T$ of length $n$ and a pattern $P$ of length $m$, the approximate pattern matching problem asks for computation of a particular \emph{distance} function between $P$ and every $m$-substring of $T$. We consider a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Jan Studený , Przemysław Uznański

This paper introduces the \emph{$d$-distance matching problem}, in which we are given a bipartite graph $G=(S,T;E)$ with $S=\{s_1,\dots,s_n\}$, a weight function on the edges and an integer $d\in\mathbb Z_+$. The goal is to find a maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Péter Madarasi

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

This paper addresses the problem of identifying palindromic factors in texts that include wildcards -- special characters that match all others. These symbols challenge many classical algorithms, as numerous combinatorial properties are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Amihood Amir , Ayelet Butman , Michael Itzhaki , Dina Sokol

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

In this work, we study longest common substring, pattern matching, and wildcard pattern matching in the asymmetric streaming model. In this streaming model, we have random access to one string and streaming access to the other one. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tung Mai , Anup Rao , Ryan A. Rossi , Saeed Seddighin

Cartesian tree pattern matching consists of finding all the factors of a text that have the same Cartesian tree than a given pattern. There already exist theoretical and practical solutions for the exact case. In this paper, we propose the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bastien Auvray , Julien David , Samah Ghazawi , Richard Groult , Gad M. Landau , Thierry Lecroq

In this paper we consider the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a d-regular bipartite graph on 2n nodes with m=nd edges. The best-known algorithm for general bipartite graphs (due to Hopcroft and Karp) takes time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

The NP-complete Permutation Pattern Matching problem asks whether a $k$-permutation $P$ is contained in a $n$-permutation $T$ as a pattern. This is the case if there exists an order-preserving embedding of $P$ into $T$. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Marie-Louise Bruner , Martin Lackner

$ $We study the $d$-Uniform Hypergraph Matching ($d$-UHM) problem: given an $n$-vertex hypergraph $G$ where every hyperedge is of size $d$, find a maximum cardinality set of disjoint hyperedges. For $d\geq3$, the problem of finding the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Oussama Hanguir , Clifford Stein

In this paper, we study the problem of map matching with travel time constraints. Given a sequence of $k$ spatio-temporal measurements and an embedded path graph with travel time costs, the goal is to snap each measurement to a close-by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yannick Bosch , Sabine Storandt

This paper extends the problem of 2-dimensional palindrome search into the area of approximate matching. Using the Hamming distance as the measure, we search for 2D palindromes that allow up to $k$ mismatches. We consider two different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Dina Sokol