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Given a set of strings over a specified alphabet, identifying a median or consensus string that minimizes the total distance to all input strings is a fundamental data aggregation problem. When the Hamming distance is considered as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Diptarka Chakraborty , Rudrayan Kundu , Nidhi Purohit , Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two strings is a fundamental string similarity measure with a classical dynamic programming solution taking quadratic time. Despite significant efforts, little progress was made in improving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Negev Shekel Nosatzki

In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem with multiple substring inclusive constraints. For the two input sequences $X$ and $Y$ of lengths $n$ and $m$, and a set of $d$ constraints $P=\{P_1,\cdots,P_d\}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Daxin Zhu , Lei Wang , Yingjie Wu , Xiaodong Wang

A classical measure of string comparison is given by the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem on a pair of strings. We consider its generalisation, called the semi-local LCS problem, which arises naturally in many string-related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alexander Tiskin

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is a fundamental problem of sequence comparison. A natural approximation to this problem is a model in which every pairs of letters of two ``sequences'' are matched independently of the other…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Boutet de Monvel

Longest common substring (LCS), longest palindrome substring (LPS), and Ulam distance (UL) are three fundamental string problems that can be classically solved in near linear time. In this work, we present sublinear time quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 François Le Gall , Saeed Seddighin

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) Problem asks for the longest sequence of (non-contiguous) matches between two given strings of characters. Using extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we find a finite size scaling law of the form E(L)/N =C…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Boutet de Monvel

Longest Common Subsequence ($LCS$) deals with the problem of measuring similarity of two strings. While this problem has been analyzed for decades, the recent interest stems from a practical observation that considering single characters is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Filip Pavetić , Ivan Katanić , Gustav Matula , Goran Žužić , Mile Šikić

In this paper we present $LCSk$++: a new metric for measuring the similarity of long strings, and provide an algorithm for its efficient computation. With ever increasing size of strings occuring in practice, e.g. large genomes of plants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Filip Pavetić , Goran Žužić , Mile Šikić

Calculating the length of a longest common subsequence (LCS) of two strings $A$ and $B$ of length $n$ and $m$ is a classic research topic, with many worst-case oriented results known. We present two algorithms for LCS length calculation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Szymon Grabowski

The longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is a central problem in stringology that finds the longest common subsequence of given two strings $A$ and $B$. More recently, a set of four constrained LCS problems (called generalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Kohei Yamada , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

In the longest common substring (LCS) problem, we are given two strings $S$ and $T$, each of length at most $n$, and we are asked to find a longest string occurring as a fragment of both $S$ and $T$. This is a classical and well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amihood Amir , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

Recently, many studies have been devoted to finding diverse solutions in classical combinatorial problems, such as Vertex Cover (Baste et al., IJCAI'20), Matching (Fomin et al., ISAAC'20) and Spanning Tree (Hanaka et al., AAAI'21). We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mark de Berg , Andrés López Martínez , Frits Spieksma

The {\em longest common subsequence (LCS)} problem is a classic and well-studied problem in computer science. LCS is a central problem in stringology and finds broad applications in text compression, error-detecting codes and biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Masud Hasan , Sumaiya Iqbal , M. Sohel Rahman

The problem of finding longest common subsequence (LCS) is one of the fundamental problems in computer science, which finds application in fields such as computational biology, text processing, information retrieval, data compression etc.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Amey Bhangale , Diptarka Chakraborty , Rajendra Kumar

Longest Common Substring (LCS) is an important text processing problem, which has recently been investigated in the quantum query model. The decisional version of this problem, LCS with threshold $d$, asks whether two length-$n$ input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Ce Jin , Jakob Nogler

We consider the longest common subsequence problem in the context of subsequences with gap constraints. In particular, following Day et al. 2022, we consider the setting when the distance (i. e., the gap) between two consecutive symbols of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Duncan Adamson , Maria Kosche , Tore Koß , Florin Manea , Stefan Siemer

We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we study edit distance (ED) and longest common subsequence (LCS) in the asymmetric streaming model, introduced by Saks and Seshadhri [SS13]. As an intermediate model between the random access model and the streaming model,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xin Li , Yu Zheng

The longest common subsequence (LCS) is a fundamental problem in string processing which has numerous algorithmic studies, extensions, and applications. A sequence $u_1, \ldots, u_f$ of $f$ strings s said to be an ($f$-)segmentation of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yuki Yonemoto , Takuya Mieno , Shunsuke Inenaga , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara