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Much research has been devoted to optimizing algorithms of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) 77 family, both in terms of speed and memory requirements. Binary search trees and suffix trees (ST) are data structures that have been often used for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Artur Ferreira , Arlindo Oliveira , Mario Figueiredo

At the present scenario of the internet, there exist many optimization techniques to improve the Web speed but almost expensive in terms of bandwidth. So after a long investigation on different techniques to compress the data without any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Hemant Kumar Saini , Satpal Singh Kushwaha , C. Rama Krishna

A string attractor of a string $T[1..|T|]$ is a set of positions $\Gamma$ of $T$ such that any substring $w$ of $T$ has an occurrence that crosses a position in $\Gamma$, i.e., there is a position $i$ such that $w = T[i..i+|w|-1]$ and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Mutsunori Banbara , Hideo Bannai , Peaker Guo , Dominik Köppl , Takuya Mieno , Yoshio Okamoto

In this short note we present a comprehensive bibliography for the online exact string matching problem. The problem consists in finding all occurrences of a given pattern in a text. It is an extensively studied problem in computer science,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Simone Faro

Computing the {\em matching statistics} of a string $P[1..m]$ with respect to a text $T[1..n]$ is a fundamental problem which has application to genome sequence comparison. In this paper, we study the problem of computing the matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Younan Gao

Random access to highly compressed strings -- represented by straight-line programs or Lempel-Ziv parses, for example -- is a well-studied topic. Random access to such strings in strongly sublogarithmic time is impossible in the worst case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ferdinando Cicalese , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Nicola Prezza , Cristian Urbina

The normalized substring complexity $\delta$ of a string is defined as $\max_k \{c[k]/k\}$, where $c[k]$ is the number of \textit{distinct} substrings of length $k$. This simply defined measure has recently attracted attention due to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gregory Kucherov , Yakov Nekrich

The LZ-End parsing [Kreft & Navarro, 2011] of an input string yields compression competitive with the popular Lempel-Ziv 77 scheme, but also allows for efficient random access. Kempa and Kosolobov showed that the parsing can be computed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Patrick Dinklage

Given a static reference string $R$ and a source string $S$, a relative compression of $S$ with respect to $R$ is an encoding of $S$ as a sequence of references to substrings of $R$. Relative compression schemes are a classic model of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Philip Bille , Patrick Hagge Cording , Inge Li Gørtz , Frederik Rye Skjoldjensen , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj , Søren Vind

Two decades ago, a breakthrough in indexing string collections made it possible to represent them within their compressed space while at the same time offering indexed search functionalities. As this new technology permeated through…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Gonzalo Navarro

We initiate the study of sub-linear sketching and streaming techniques for estimating the output size of common dictionary compressors such as Lempel-Ziv '77, the run-length Burrows-Wheeler transform, and grammar compression. To this end,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruben Becker , Matteo Canton , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Bojana Kodric , Nicola Prezza

Compression algorithms reduce the redundancy in data representation to decrease the storage required for that data. Data compression offers an attractive approach to reducing communication costs by using available bandwidth effectively.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 B. S. Shajee Mohan , V. K. Govindan

Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) factorization is a fundamental problem in string processing: Greedily partition a given string $T$ from left to right into blocks (called phrases) so that each phrase is either the leftmost occurrence of a letter or the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka

Consider an input text string T[1,N] drawn from an unbounded alphabet. We study partial computation in suffix-based problems for Data Compression and Text Indexing such as (I) retrieve any segment of K<=N consecutive symbols from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Gianni Franceschini , Roberto Grossi , S. Muthukrishnan

Auto-completion is one of the most prominent features of modern information systems. The existing solutions of auto-completion provide the suggestions based on the beginning of the currently input character sequence (i.e. prefix). However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Pengfei Xu , Jiaheng Lu

We consider the problem of decompressing the Lempel--Ziv 77 representation of a string $S$ of length $n$ using a working space as close as possible to the size $z$ of the input. The folklore solution for the problem runs in $O(n)$ time but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Philip Bille , Mikko Berggren Ettienne , Travis Gagie , Inge Li Gørtz , Nicola Prezza

String matching is the problem of deciding whether a given $n$-bit string contains a given $k$-bit pattern. We study the complexity of this problem in three settings. Communication complexity. For small $k$, we provide near-optimal upper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Alexander Golovnev , Mika Göös , Daniel Reichman , Igor Shinkar

Given a set of pattern strings $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1, P_2,\ldots P_k\}$ and a text string $S$, the classic dictionary matching problem is to report all occurrences of each pattern in $S$. We study the dictionary problem in the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Simon J. Puglisi , Simon R. Tarnow

In the Dictionary-based String Matching (DSM) problem, a retrieval system has access to a source sequence and stores the position of a certain number of strings in a posting table. When a user inquires the position of a string, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-26 M. Suri , S. Rini

String-averaging is an algorithmic structure used when handling a family of operators in situations where the algorithm at hand requires to employ the operators in a specific order. Sequential orderings are well-known and a simultaneous…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Yair Censor , Ariel Nisenbaum