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In this paper, we describe a new type of match between a pattern and a text that aren't necessarily maximal in the query, but still contain useful matching information: locally maximal exact matches (LEMs). There are usually a large amount…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ahsan Sanaullah , Degui Zhi , Shaojie Zhang

We study the internal dictionary matching (IDM) problem where a dictionary $\mathcal{D}$ containing $d$ substrings of a text $T$ is given, and each query concerns the occurrences of patterns in $\mathcal{D}$ in another substring of $T$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jingbang Chen , Jiangqi Dai , Qiuyang Mang , Qingyu Shi , Tingqiang Xu

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

The problem of finding factors of a text string which are identical or similar to a given pattern string is a central problem in computer science. A generalised version of this problem consists in implementing an index over the text to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Carl Barton , Tomasz Kociumaka , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

We study the fundamental problem of finding the best string to represent a given set, in the form of the Closest String problem: Given a set $X \subseteq \Sigma^d$ of $n$ strings, find the string $x^*$ minimizing the radius of the smallest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Amir Abboud , Nick Fischer , Elazar Goldenberg , Karthik C. S. , Ron Safier

The problem of string reconstruction based on its substrings spectrum has received significant attention recently due to its applicability to DNA data storage and sequencing. In contrast to previous works, we consider in this paper a setup…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval and computational biology. Sampled string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Francesco Pio Marino

The circular dictionary matching problem is an extension of the classical dictionary matching problem where every string in the dictionary is interpreted as a circular string: after reading the last character of a string, we can move back…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Nicola Cotumaccio

It is well-known that checking whether a given string $w$ matches a given regular expression $r$ can be done in quadratic time $O(|w|\cdot |r|)$ and that this cannot be improved to a truly subquadratic running time of $O((|w|\cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Antoine Amarilli , Florin Manea , Tina Ringleb , Markus L. Schmid

We present a new algorithm for subsequence matching in grammar compressed strings. Given a grammar of size $n$ compressing a string of size $N$ and a pattern string of size $m$ over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, our algorithm uses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Philip Bille , Patrick Hagge Cording , Inge Li Gørtz

Assembling a gene from candidate exons is an important problem in computational biology. Among the most successful approaches to this problem is \emph{spliced alignment}, proposed by Gelfand et al., which scores different candidate exon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-24 Alexander Tiskin

Given a pattern $P$ and a text $T$, both strings over a binary alphabet, the binary jumbled string matching problem consists in telling whether any permutation of $P$ occurs in $T$. The indexed version of this problem, i.e., preprocessing a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Emanuele Giaquinta , Szymon Grabowski

In this work, we tackle a natural variation of the String Matching Problem on the case of a dynamic pattern, that is, given a static text $T$ and a pattern $P$, we want to support character additions and deletions to the pattern, and after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bruno Monteiro , Vinicius dos Santos

Matrix completion is the problem of recovering a low rank matrix by observing a small fraction of its entries. A series of recent works [KOM12,JNS13,HW14] have proposed fast non-convex optimization based iterative algorithms to solve this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli

In this paper, we introduce zip-tries, which are simple, dynamic, memory-efficient data structures for strings. Zip-tries support search and update operations for $k$-length strings in $\mathcal{O}(k+\log n)$ time in the standard RAM model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 David Eppstein , Ofek Gila , Michael T. Goodrich , Ryuto Kitagawa

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

Suppose we want to seek the longest common subsequences (LCSs) of two strings as informative patterns that explain the relationship between the strings. The dynamic programming algorithm gives us a table from which all LCSs can be extracted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yoshifumi Sakai

The string indexing problem is a fundamental computational problem with numerous applications, including information retrieval and bioinformatics. It aims to efficiently solve the pattern matching problem: given a text T of length n for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Waseem Akram , Takuya Mieno

In the minimum $k$-edge-connected spanning subgraph ($k$-ECSS) problem the goal is to find the minimum weight subgraph resistant to up to $k-1$ edge failures. This is a central problem in network design, and a natural generalization of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Michal Dory

A regular expression specifies a set of strings formed by single characters combined with concatenation, union, and Kleene star operators. Given a regular expression $R$ and a string $Q$, the regular expression matching problem is to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz