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In the Levenshtein's sequence reconstruction problem a codeword is transmitted through $N$ channels and in each channel a set of errors is introduced to the transmitted word. In previous works, the restriction that each channel provides a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ville Junnila , Tero Laihonen , Tuomo Lehtilä

In this paper, we present a novel heuristic algorithm for the stable but NP-complete deformation-based edit distance on merge trees. Our key contribution is the introduction of a user-controlled look-ahead parameter that allows to trade off…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Florian Wetzels , Heike Leitte , Christoph Garth

Wasserstein distance, which measures the discrepancy between distributions, shows efficacy in various types of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) applications. One of the challenges in estimating Wasserstein distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-27 Makoto Yamada , Yuki Takezawa , Ryoma Sato , Han Bao , Zornitsa Kozareva , Sujith Ravi

We show that the edit distance between two run-length encoded strings of compressed lengths $m$ and $n$ respectively, can be computed in $\mathcal{O}(mn\log(mn))$ time. This improves the previous record by a factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Raphaël Clifford , Paweł Gawrychowski , Tomasz Kociumaka , Daniel P. Martin , Przemysław Uznański

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic scheme that enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, as if the data were in plaintext. After all computations are performed on the encrypted data, it can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ronny Ko

The unordered tree edit distance is a natural metric to compute distances between trees without intrinsic child order, such as representations of chemical molecules. While the unordered tree edit distance is MAX SNP-hard in principle, it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Benjamin Paaßen

The distance of a classical or quantum code is a key figure of merit which reflects its capacity to detect errors. Quantum LDPC code families have considerable promise in reducing the overhead required for fault-tolerant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Mark Webster , Abraham Jacob , Oscar Higgott

The edit distance between two strings is defined as the smallest number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions that need to be made to transform one of the strings to another one. Approximating edit distance in subquadratic time is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Mahdi Boroujeni , Soheil Ehsani , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Saeed Seddighin

A generalization of the Wasserstein metric, the integrated transportation distance, establishes a novel distance between probability kernels of Markov systems. This metric serves as the foundation for an efficient approximation technique,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zhengqi Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is one of the most promising post-quantum cryptographic schemes that enable privacy-preserving computation on servers. However, noise accumulates as we perform operations on HE-encrypted data, restricting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jongmin Kim , Gwangho Lee , Sangpyo Kim , Gina Sohn , John Kim , Minsoo Rhu , Jung Ho Ahn

The increasing amount of data and the growing complexity of problems has resulted in an ever-growing reliance on cloud computing. However, many applications, most notably in healthcare, finance or defense, demand security and privacy which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Saransh Gupta , Rosario Cammarota , Tajana Rosing

We study edit distance computation with preprocessing: the preprocessing algorithm acts on each string separately, and then the query algorithm takes as input the two preprocessed strings. This model is inspired by scenarios where we would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Elazar Goldenberg , Aviad Rubinstein , Barna Saha

In safeguarding mission-critical systems, such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), preserving the privacy of path trajectories during navigation is paramount. While the combination of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Fully Homomorphic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Arjun Ramesh Kaushik , Charanjit Jutla , Nalini Ratha

In this paper numerical methods of computing distances between two Radon measures on R are discussed. Efficient algorithms for Wasserstein-type metrics are provided. In particular, we propose a novel algorithm to compute the flat metric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Jedrzej Jablonski , Anna Marciniak-Czochra

We suggest using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to be used, not only to keep the privacy of information but also, to verify computations with no additional significant overhead, using only part of the variables length for verification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shlomi Dolev , Arseni Kalma

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a relatively recent advancement in the field of privacy-preserving technologies. FHE allows for the arbitrary depth computation of both addition and multiplication, and thus the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 George Onoufriou , Paul Mayfield , Georgios Leontidis

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables the processing of encrypted data without decrypting it. FHE has garnered significant attention over the past decade as it supports secure outsourcing of data processing to remote cloud services.…

In the era of generative AI, ensuring the privacy of music data presents unique challenges: unlike static artworks such as images, music data is inherently temporal and multimodal, and it is sampled, transformed, and remixed at an…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-12 William Zerong Wang , Dongfang Zhao

We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Nhat Ho

Image hashing is a principled approximate nearest neighbor approach to find similar items to a query in a large collection of images. Hashing aims to learn a binary-output function that maps an image to a binary vector. For optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Khoa D. Doan , Peng Yang , Ping Li