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Date
2020Type
- Conference Paper
Abstract
We consider the problem of computing distance between a pattern of length n and all n-length subwords of a text in the streaming model. In the streaming setting, only the Hamming distance (L0) has been studied. It is known that computing the exact Hamming distance between a pattern and a streaming text requires Ω(n) space (folklore). Therefore, to develop sublinear-space solutions, one must relax their requirements. One possibility to do so is to compute only the distances bounded by a threshold k, see [SODA'19, Clifford, Kociumaka, Porat] and references therein. The motivation for this variant of this problem is that we are interested in subwords of the text that are similar to the pattern, i.e. in subwords such that the distance between them and the pattern is relatively small. On the other hand, the main application of the streaming setting is processing large-scale data, such as biological data. Recent advances in hardware technology allow generating such data at a very high speed, but unfortunately, the produced data may contain about 10% of noise [Biol. Direct.'07, Klebanov and Yakovlev]. To analyse such data, it is not sufficient to consider small distances only. A possible workaround for this issue is the (1 ± ε)-approximation. This line of research was initiated in [ICALP'16, Clifford and Starikovskaya] who gave a (1 ± ε)-approximation algorithm with space Oe(ε−5 √n). In this work, we show a suite of new streaming algorithms for computing the Hamming, L1, L2 and general Lp (0 < p < 2) distances between the pattern and the text. Our results significantly extend over the previous result in this setting. In particular, for the Hamming distance and for the Lp distance when 0 < p ≤ 1 we show a streaming algorithm that uses Oe(ε−2 √n) space for polynomial-size alphabets. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000442917Publication status
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Book title
Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020)Volume
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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für InformatikEvent
Subject
streaming algorithms; approximate pattern matchingNotes
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.More
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