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The generalized function matching (GFM) problem has been intensively studied starting with [Ehrenfeucht and Rozenberg, 1979]. Given a pattern p and a text t, the goal is to find a mapping from the letters of p to non-empty substrings of t,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Sebastian Ordyniak , Alexandru Popa

The $k$-mismatch problem consists in computing the Hamming distance between a pattern $P$ of length $m$ and every length-$m$ substring of a text $T$ of length $n$, if this distance is no more than $k$. In many real-world applications, any…

We consider a class of pattern matching problems where a normalising transformation is applied at every alignment. Normalised pattern matching plays a key role in fields as diverse as image processing and musical information processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ayelet Butman , Peter Clifford , Raphael Clifford , Markus Jalsenius , Noa Lewenstein , Benny Porat , Ely Porat , Benjamin Sach

String matching is a fundamental problem in computer science, with critical applications in text retrieval, bioinformatics, and data analysis. Among the numerous solutions that have emerged for this problem in recent decades,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Caterina Viola

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

The classic exact pattern matching problem, given two strings -- a pattern $P$ of length $m$ and a text $T$ of length $n$ -- asks whether $P$ occurs as a substring of $T$. A property tester for the problem needs to distinguish (with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ce Jin , Tomasz Kociumaka

We consider the problem of pattern matching with $k$ mismatches, where there can be don't care or wild card characters in the pattern. Specifically, given a pattern $P$ of length $m$ and a text $T$ of length $n$, we want to find all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Marius Nicolae , Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

Machines are possible to have some artificial intelligence like human beings owing to particular algorithms or software. Such machines could learn knowledge from what people taught them and do works according to the knowledge. In practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Li Zhaokai , Liu Xiaomei , Xu Nanyang , Du jiangfeng

The parameterized matching problem is a variant of string matching, which is to search for all parameterized occurrences of a pattern $P$ in a text $T$. In considering matching algorithms, the combinatorial natures of strings, especially…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haruki Ideguchi , Diptarama Hendrian , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

Solving linear systems of equations is a common problem that arises both on its own and as a subroutine in more complex problems: given a matrix A and a vector b, find a vector x such that Ax=b. We consider the case where one doesn't need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 Aram W. Harrow , Avinatan Hassidim , Seth Lloyd

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

Cartesian tree matching is the problem of finding all substrings of a given text which have the same Cartesian trees as that of a given pattern. So far there is one linear-time solution for Cartesian tree matching, which is based on the KMP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Siwoo Song , Cheol Ryu , Simone Faro , Thierry Lecroq , Kunsoo Park

Quantum machine learning (QML) aims to accelerate machine learning tasks by exploiting quantum computation. Previous work studied a QML algorithm for selecting sparse subnetworks from large shallow neural networks. Instead of directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Natsuto Isogai , Hayata Yamasaki , Sho Sonoda , Mio Murao

We study quantum algorithms for several fundamental string problems, including Longest Common Substring, Lexicographically Minimal String Rotation, and Longest Square Substring. These problems have been widely studied in the stringology…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

We study algorithms for solving three problems on strings. The first one is the Most Frequently String Search Problem. The problem is the following. Assume that we have a sequence of $n$ strings of length $k$. The problem is finding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kamil Khadiev , Artem Ilikaev

Subset-Sum is an NP-complete problem where one must decide if a multiset of $n$ integers contains a subset whose elements sum to a target value $m$. The best-known classical and quantum algorithms run in time $\tilde{O}(2^{n/2})$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Jonathan Allcock , Yassine Hamoudi , Antoine Joux , Felix Klingelhöfer , Miklos Santha

Quantum computers have the potential of solving certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers. Recently, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed a quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations: given an $N\times{N}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Jian Pan , Yudong Cao , Xiwei Yao , Zhaokai Li , Chenyong Ju , Xinhua Peng , Sabre Kais , Jiangfeng Du

In the Pattern Masking for Dictionary Matching (PMDM) problem, we are given a dictionary $\mathcal{D}$ of $d$ strings, each of length $\ell$, a query string $q$ of length $\ell$, and a positive integer $z$, and we are asked to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Huiping Chen , Peter Christen , Grigorios Loukides , Nadia Pisanti , Solon P. Pissis , Jakub Radoszewski

A degenerate string is a sequence of sets of characters. A generalized degenerate (GD) string extends this notion to the sequence of sets of strings, where strings of the same set are of equal length. Finding an exact match for a pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Massimo Equi , Md Rabiul Islam Khan , Veli Mäkinen

The equidistant subsequence pattern matching problem is considered. Given a pattern string $P$ and a text string $T$, we say that $P$ is an \emph{equidistant subsequence} of $T$ if $P$ is a subsequence of the text such that consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mitsuru Funakoshi , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda , Ayumi Shinohara