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We introduce a new distance measure for comparing polygonal chains: the $k$-Fr\'echet distance. As the name implies, it is closely related to the well-studied Fr\'echet distance but detects similarities between curves that resemble each…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Hugo A Akitaya , Maike Buchin , Leonie Ryvkin , Jérôme Urhausen

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

Let $P$ be a convex polygon in the plane, and let $T$ be a triangulation of $P$. An edge $e$ in $T$ is called a diagonal if it is shared by two triangles in $T$. A flip of a diagonal $e$ is the operation of removing $e$ and adding the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haohong Li , Ge Xia

The Fr\'echet distance provides a natural and intuitive measure for the popular task of computing the similarity of two (polygonal) curves. While a simple algorithm computes it in near-quadratic time, a strongly subquadratic algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

Edit distance, also known as Levenshtein distance, is an essential way to compare two strings that proved to be particularly useful in the analysis of genetic sequences and natural language processing. However, edit distance is a discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Evgenii Ofitserov , Vasily Tsvetkov , Vadim Nazarov

Let P be a polygonal curve in R^d of length n, and S be a point-set of size k. We consider the problem of finding a polygonal curve Q on S such that all points in S are visited and the Fr\'echet distance from $P$ is less than a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Paul Accisano , Alper Üngör

This note provides a chronological account of Fr\'echet distances, starting with Maurice Fr\'echet's 1906 doctoral thesis on distances in abstract sets and tracing the Fr\'echet distance between polygonal curves and its algorithmic…

General Literature · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuli Wu

In the first part of this thesis, we consider an instance of Frechet distance problem in which the speed of traversal along each segment of the curves is restricted to be within a specfied range. This setting is more realistic than the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-26 Kaveh Shahbaz

The edit distance between two graphs is a widely used measure of similarity that evaluates the smallest number of vertex and edge deletions/insertions required to transform one graph to another. It is NP-hard to compute in general, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Utkan Onur Candogan , Venkat Chandrasekaran

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

An edge-operation on a graph $G$ is defined to be either the deletion of an existing edge or the addition of a nonexisting edge. Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{G}$, the editing distance from $G$ to $\mathcal{G}$ is the smallest number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Maria Axenovich , André Kézdy , Ryan R. Martin

The classical and extensively-studied Fr\'echet distance between two curves is defined as an inf max, where the infimum is over all traversals of the curves, and the maximum is over all concurrent positions of the two agents. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Omrit Filtser , Mayank Goswami , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Valentin Polishchuk

Given a string $\sigma$ over alphabet $\Sigma$ and a grammar $G$ defined over the same alphabet, how many minimum number of repairs: insertions, deletions and substitutions are required to map $\sigma$ into a valid member of $G$ ? We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Barna Saha

In well-studied graph modification problems, adding and deleting vertices and edges are used as graph editing operations. We propose a model for graph modification on geometric intersection graphs called Geometric Graph Edit Distance that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

We propose sublinear algorithms for probabilistic testing of the discrete and continuous Fr\'echet distance - a standard similarity measure for curves. We assume the algorithm is given access to the input curves via a query oracle: a query…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Peyman Afshani , Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Marena Richter , Sampson Wong

We study the problem of computing the upper bound of the discrete Fr\'{e}chet distance for imprecise input, and prove that the problem is NP-hard. This solves an open problem posed in 2010 by Ahn \emph{et al}. If shortcuts are allowed, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Chenglin Fan , Binhai Zhu

In 2015, Driemel, Krivo\v{s}ija and Sohler introduced the $(k,\ell)$-median problem for clustering polygonal curves under the Fr\'echet distance. Given a set of input curves, the problem asks to find $k$ median curves of at most $\ell$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Dennis Rohde

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

We describe the first strongly subquadratic time algorithm with subexponential approximation ratio for approximately computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal chains. Specifically, let $P$ and $Q$ be two polygonal chains with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Connor Colombe , Kyle Fox

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