33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)

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Complete Volume

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022

LIPIcs, Volume 223, CPM 2022, Complete Volume

Authors: Hideo Bannai and Jan Holub

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LIPIcs, Volume 223, CPM 2022, Complete Volume

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33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 1-470, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Proceedings{bannai_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022,
  title =	{{LIPIcs, Volume 223, CPM 2022, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{1--470},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161265},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022},
  annote =	{Keywords: LIPIcs, Volume 223, CPM 2022, Complete Volume}
}

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Front Matter

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.0

Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization

Authors: Hideo Bannai and Jan Holub

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Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization

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33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 0:i-0:xviii, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bannai_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.0,
  author =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{0:i--0:xviii},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161271},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}
}

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Invited Talk

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.1

Invitation to Combinatorial Reconfiguration (Invited Talk)

Authors: Takehiro Ito

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Combinatorial reconfiguration studies reachability and related questions over the solution space formed by feasible solutions of an instance of a combinatorial search problem. For example, as the solution space for the satisfiability problem, we may consider the subgraph of the hypercube induced by the satisfying truth assignments of a given CNF formula. Then, the reachability problem for satisfiability is the problem of asking whether two given satisfying truth assignments are contained in the same connected component of the solution space. The study of reconfiguration problems has motivation from a variety of fields such as puzzles, statistical physics, and industry. In this decade, reconfiguration problems have been studied intensively for many central combinatorial search problems, such as satisfiability, independent set and coloring, from the algorithmic viewpoints. Many reconfiguration problems are PSPACE-complete in general, although several efficiently solvable cases have been obtained. In this talk, I will give a broad introduction of combinatorial reconfiguration.

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Takehiro Ito. Invitation to Combinatorial Reconfiguration (Invited Talk). In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, p. 1:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{ito:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.1,
  author =	{Ito, Takehiro},
  title =	{{Invitation to Combinatorial Reconfiguration}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161281},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Combinatorial reconfiguration, graph algorithm}
}

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Invited Talk

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.2

Using Automata and a Decision Procedure to Prove Results in Pattern Matching (Invited Talk)

Authors: Jeffrey Shallit

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The first-order theory of automatic sequences with addition is decidable, and this means that one can often prove combinatorial properties of these sequences "automatically", using the free software Walnut written by Hamoon Mousavi. In this talk I will explain how this is done, using as an example the measure of minimize size string attractor, introduced by Kempa and Prezza in 2018. Using the logic-based approach, we can also prove more general properties of string attractors for automatic sequences. This is joint work with Luke Schaeffer.

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Jeffrey Shallit. Using Automata and a Decision Procedure to Prove Results in Pattern Matching (Invited Talk). In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 2:1-2:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{shallit:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.2,
  author =	{Shallit, Jeffrey},
  title =	{{Using Automata and a Decision Procedure to Prove Results in Pattern Matching}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:3},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161297},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: finite automata, decision procedure, automatic sequence, Thue-Morse sequence, Fibonacci word, string attractor}
}

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Invited Talk

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.3

Compact Text Indexing for Advanced Pattern Matching Problems: Parameterized, Order-Isomorphic, 2D, etc. (Invited Talk)

Authors: Sharma V. Thankachan

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In the past two decades, we have witnessed the design of various compact data structures for pattern matching over an indexed text [Navarro, 2016]. Popular indexes like the FM-index [Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini, 2005], compressed suffix arrays/trees [Roberto Grossi and Jeffrey Scott Vitter, 2005; Kunihiko Sadakane, 2007], the recent r-index [Travis Gagie et al., 2020; Takaaki Nishimoto and Yasuo Tabei, 2021], etc., capture the key functionalities of classic suffix arrays/trees [Udi Manber and Eugene W. Myers, 1993; Peter Weiner, 1973] in compact space. Mostly, they rely on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) and its associated operations [Burrows and Wheeler, 1994]. However, compactly encoding some advanced suffix tree (ST) variants, like parameterized ST [Brenda S. Baker, 1993; S. Rao Kosaraju, 1995; Juan Mendivelso et al., 2020], order-isomorphic/preserving ST [Maxime Crochemore et al., 2016], two-dimensional ST [Raffaele Giancarlo, 1995; Dong Kyue Kim et al., 1998], etc. [Sung Gwan Park et al., 2019; Tetsuo Shibuya, 2000]- collectively known as suffix trees with missing suffix links [Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan, 2003], has been challenging. The previous techniques are not easily extendable because these variants do not hold some structural properties of the standard ST that enable compression. However, some limited progress has been made in these directions recently [Arnab Ganguly et al., 2017; Travis Gagie et al., 2017; Gianni Decaroli et al., 2017; Dhrumil Patel and Rahul Shah, 2021; Arnab Ganguly et al., 2021; Sung{-}Hwan Kim and Hwan{-}Gue Cho, 2021; Sung{-}Hwan Kim and Hwan{-}Gue Cho, 2021; Arnab Ganguly et al., 2017; Arnab Ganguly et al., 2022; Arnab Ganguly et al., 2021]. This talk will briefly survey them and highlight some interesting open problems.

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Sharma V. Thankachan. Compact Text Indexing for Advanced Pattern Matching Problems: Parameterized, Order-Isomorphic, 2D, etc. (Invited Talk). In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 3:1-3:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{thankachan:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.3,
  author =	{Thankachan, Sharma V.},
  title =	{{Compact Text Indexing for Advanced Pattern Matching Problems: Parameterized, Order-Isomorphic, 2D, etc.}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:3},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161300},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Text Indexing, Suffix Trees, String Matching}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.4

The Fine-Grained Complexity of Episode Matching

Authors: Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz, Shay Mozes, Teresa Anna Steiner, and Oren Weimann

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Given two strings S and P, the Episode Matching problem is to find the shortest substring of S that contains P as a subsequence. The best known upper bound for this problem is Õ(nm) by Das et al. (1997), where n,m are the lengths of S and P, respectively. Although the problem is well studied and has many applications in data mining, this bound has never been improved. In this paper we show why this is the case by proving that no O((nm)^{1-ε}) algorithm (even for binary strings) exists, unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) is false. We then consider the indexing version of the problem, where S is preprocessed into a data structure for answering episode matching queries P. We show that for any τ, there is a data structure using O(n+(n/(τ)) ^k) space that answers episode matching queries for any P of length k in O(k⋅ τ ⋅ log log n) time. We complement this upper bound with an almost matching lower bound, showing that any data structure that answers episode matching queries for patterns of length k in time O(n^δ), must use Ω(n^{k-kδ-o(1)}) space, unless the Strong k-Set Disjointness Conjecture is false. Finally, for the special case of k = 2, we present a faster construction of the data structure using fast min-plus multiplication of bounded integer matrices.

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Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz, Shay Mozes, Teresa Anna Steiner, and Oren Weimann. The Fine-Grained Complexity of Episode Matching. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 4:1-4:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bille_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.4,
  author =	{Bille, Philip and G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Mozes, Shay and Steiner, Teresa Anna and Weimann, Oren},
  title =	{{The Fine-Grained Complexity of Episode Matching}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161312},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Pattern matching, fine-grained complexity, longest common subsequence}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.5

Mechanical Proving with Walnut for Squares and Cubes in Partial Words

Authors: John Machacek

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Walnut is a software that can prove theorems in combinatorics on words about automatic sequences. We are able to apply this software to both prove new results as well as reprove some old results on avoiding squares and cubes in partial words. We also define the notion of an antisquare in a partial word and begin the study of binary partial words which contain only a fixed number of distinct squares and antisquares.

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John Machacek. Mechanical Proving with Walnut for Squares and Cubes in Partial Words. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 5:1-5:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{machacek:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.5,
  author =	{Machacek, John},
  title =	{{Mechanical Proving with Walnut for Squares and Cubes in Partial Words}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161320},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Partial words, squares, antisquares, cubes, Walnut}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.6

An FPT-Algorithm for Longest Common Subsequence Parameterized by the Maximum Number of Deletions

Authors: Laurent Bulteau, Mark Jones, Rolf Niedermeier, and Till Tantau

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In the NP-hard Longest Common Subsequence problem (LCS), given a set of strings, the task is to find a string that can be obtained from every input string using as few deletions as possible. LCS is one of the most fundamental string problems with numerous applications in various areas, having gained a lot of attention in the algorithms and complexity research community. Significantly improving on an algorithm by Irving and Fraser [CPM'92], featured as a research challenge in a 2014 survey paper, we show that LCS is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) when parameterized by the maximum number of deletions per input string. Given the relatively moderate running time of our algorithm (linear time when the parameter is a constant) and small parameter values to be expected in several applications, we believe that our purely theoretical analysis could finally pave the way to a new, exact and practically useful algorithm for this notoriously hard string problem.

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Laurent Bulteau, Mark Jones, Rolf Niedermeier, and Till Tantau. An FPT-Algorithm for Longest Common Subsequence Parameterized by the Maximum Number of Deletions. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 6:1-6:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bulteau_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.6,
  author =	{Bulteau, Laurent and Jones, Mark and Niedermeier, Rolf and Tantau, Till},
  title =	{{An FPT-Algorithm for Longest Common Subsequence Parameterized by the Maximum Number of Deletions}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161338},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: NP-hard string problems, multiple sequence alignment, center string, parameterized complexity, search tree algorithms, enumerative algorithms}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.7

Beyond the Longest Letter-Duplicated Subsequence Problem

Authors: Wenfeng Lai, Adiesha Liyanage, Binhai Zhu, and Peng Zou

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Motivated by computing duplication patterns in sequences, a new fundamental problem called the longest letter-duplicated subsequence (LLDS) is proposed. Given a sequence S of length n, a letter-duplicated subsequence is a subsequence of S in the form of x₁^{d₁}x₂^{d₂}⋯ x_k^{d_k} with x_i ∈ Σ, x_j≠ x_{j+1} and d_i ≥ 2 for all i in [k] and j in [k-1]. A linear time algorithm for computing the longest letter-duplicated subsequence (LLDS) of S can be easily obtained. In this paper, we focus on two variants of this problem. We first consider the constrained version when Σ is unbounded, each letter appears in S at least 6 times and all the letters in Σ must appear in the solution. We show that the problem is NP-hard (a further twist indicates that the problem does not admit any polynomial time approximation). The reduction is from possibly the simplest version of SAT that is NP-complete, (≤ 2,1, ≤ 3)-SAT, where each variable appears at most twice positively and exact once negatively, and each clause contains at most three literals and some clauses must contain exactly two literals. (We hope that this technique will serve as a general tool to help us proving the NP-hardness for some more tricky sequence problems involving only one sequence - much harder than with at least two input sequences, which we apply successfully at the end of the paper on some extra variations of the LLDS problem.) We then show that when each letter appears in S at most 3 times, then the problem admits a factor 1.5-O(1/n) approximation. Finally, we consider the weighted version, where the weight of a block x_i^{d_i} (d_i ≥ 2) could be any positive function which might not grow with d_i. We give a non-trivial O(n²) time dynamic programming algorithm for this version, i.e., computing an LD-subsequence of S whose weight is maximized.

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Wenfeng Lai, Adiesha Liyanage, Binhai Zhu, and Peng Zou. Beyond the Longest Letter-Duplicated Subsequence Problem. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 7:1-7:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{lai_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.7,
  author =	{Lai, Wenfeng and Liyanage, Adiesha and Zhu, Binhai and Zou, Peng},
  title =	{{Beyond the Longest Letter-Duplicated Subsequence Problem}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161348},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Segmental duplications, Tandem duplications, Longest common subsequence, NP-completeness, Dynamic programming}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.8

Reduction Ratio of the IS-Algorithm: Worst and Random Cases

Authors: Vincent Jugé

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We study the IS-algorithm, a well-known linear-time algorithm for computing the suffix array of a word. This algorithm relies on transforming the input word w into another word, called the reduced word of w, that will be at least twice shorter; then, the algorithm recursively computes the suffix array of the reduced word. In this article, we study the reduction ratio of the IS-algorithm, i.e., the ratio between the lengths of the input word and the word obtained after reducing k times the input word. We investigate both worst cases, in which we find precise results, and random cases, where we prove some strong convergence phenomena. Finally, we prove that, if the input word is a randomly chosen word of length n, we should not expect much more than log(log(n)) recursive function calls.

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Vincent Jugé. Reduction Ratio of the IS-Algorithm: Worst and Random Cases. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 8:1-8:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{juge:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.8,
  author =	{Jug\'{e}, Vincent},
  title =	{{Reduction Ratio of the IS-Algorithm: Worst and Random Cases}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161357},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Word combinatorics, Suffix array, IS algorithm}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.9

Arbitrary-Length Analogs to de Bruijn Sequences

Authors: Abhinav Nellore and Rachel Ward

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Let α̃ be a length-L cyclic sequence of characters from a size-K alphabet 𝒜 such that for every positive integer m ≤ L, the number of occurrences of any length-m string on 𝒜 as a substring of α̃ is ⌊ L / K^m ⌋ or ⌈ L / K^m ⌉. When L = K^N for any positive integer N, α̃ is a de Bruijn sequence of order N, and when L ≠ K^N, α̃ shares many properties with de Bruijn sequences. We describe an algorithm that outputs some α̃ for any combination of K ≥ 2 and L ≥ 1 in O(L) time using O(L log K) space. This algorithm extends Lempel’s recursive construction of a binary de Bruijn sequence. An implementation written in Python is available at https://github.com/nelloreward/pkl.

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Abhinav Nellore and Rachel Ward. Arbitrary-Length Analogs to de Bruijn Sequences. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 9:1-9:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{nellore_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.9,
  author =	{Nellore, Abhinav and Ward, Rachel},
  title =	{{Arbitrary-Length Analogs to de Bruijn Sequences}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161361},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: de Bruijn sequence, de Bruijn word, Lempel’s D-morphism, Lempel’s homomorphism}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.10

Partial Permutations Comparison, Maintenance and Applications

Authors: Avivit Levy, Ely Porat, and B. Riva Shalom

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This paper focuses on the concept of partial permutations and their use in algorithmic tasks. A partial permutation over Σ is a bijection π_{par}: Σ₁↦Σ₂ mapping a subset Σ₁ ⊂ Σ to a subset Σ₂ ⊂ Σ, where |Σ₁| = |Σ₂| (|Σ| denotes the size of a set Σ). Intuitively, two partial permutations agree if their mapping pairs do not form conflicts. This notion, which is formally defined in this paper, enables a consistent as well as informatively rich comparison between partial permutations. We formalize the Partial Permutations Agreement problem (PPA), as follows. Given two sets A₁, A₂ of partial permutations over alphabet Σ, each of size n, output all pairs (π_i, π_j), where π_i ∈ A₁, π_j ∈ A₂ and π_i agrees with π_j. The possibility of having a data structure for efficiently maintaining a dynamic set of partial permutations enabling to retrieve agreement of partial permutations is then studied, giving both negative and positive results. Applying our study enables to point out fruitful versus futile methods for efficient genes sequences comparison in database or automatic color transformation data augmentation technique for image processing through neural networks. It also shows that an efficient solution of strict Parameterized Dictionary Matching with One Gap (PDMOG) over general dictionary alphabets is not likely, unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) fails, thus negatively answering an open question posed lately.

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Avivit Levy, Ely Porat, and B. Riva Shalom. Partial Permutations Comparison, Maintenance and Applications. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 10:1-10:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{levy_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.10,
  author =	{Levy, Avivit and Porat, Ely and Shalom, B. Riva},
  title =	{{Partial Permutations Comparison, Maintenance and Applications}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161376},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Partial permutations, Partial words, Genes comparison, Color transformation, Dictionary matching with gaps, Parameterized matching, SETH hypothesis}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.11

Bi-Directional r-Indexes

Authors: Yuma Arakawa, Gonzalo Navarro, and Kunihiko Sadakane

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Indexing highly repetitive texts is important in fields such as bioinformatics and versioned repositories. The run-length compression of the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) provides a compressed representation particularly well-suited to text indexing. The r-index is one such index. It enables fast locating of occurrences of a pattern within O(r) words of space, where r is the number of equal-letter runs in the BWT. Its mechanism of locating is to maintain one suffix array sample along the backward-search of the pattern, and to compute all the pattern positions from that sample once the backward-search is complete. In this paper we develop this algorithm further, and propose a new bi-directional text index called the br-index, which supports extending the matched pattern both in forward and backward directions, and locating the occurrences of the pattern at any step of the search, within O(r+r_R) words of space, where r_R is the number of equal-letter runs in the BWT of the reversed text. Our experiments show that the br-index captures the long repetitions of the text, and outperforms the existing indexes in text searching allowing some mismatches except in an internal part.

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Yuma Arakawa, Gonzalo Navarro, and Kunihiko Sadakane. Bi-Directional r-Indexes. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 11:1-11:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{arakawa_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.11,
  author =	{Arakawa, Yuma and Navarro, Gonzalo and Sadakane, Kunihiko},
  title =	{{Bi-Directional r-Indexes}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161386},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Compressed text indexes, Burrows-Wheeler Transform, highly repetitive text collections}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.12

Making de Bruijn Graphs Eulerian

Authors: Giulia Bernardini, Huiping Chen, Grigorios Loukides, Solon P. Pissis, Leen Stougie, and Michelle Sweering

Abstract

A directed multigraph is called Eulerian if it has a circuit which uses each edge exactly once. Euler’s theorem tells us that a weakly connected directed multigraph is Eulerian if and only if every node is balanced. Given a collection S of strings over an alphabet Σ, the de Bruijn graph (dBG) of order k of S is a directed multigraph G_{S,k}(V,E), where V is the set of length-(k-1) substrings of the strings in S, and G_{S,k} contains an edge (u,v) with multiplicity m_{u,v}, if and only if the string u[0]⋅ v is equal to the string u⋅ v[k-2] and this string occurs exactly m_{u,v} times in total in strings in S. Let G_{Σ,k}(V_{Σ,k},E_{Σ,k}) be the complete dBG of Σ^k. The Eulerian Extension (EE) problem on G_{S,k} asks to extend G_{S,k} with a set ℬ of nodes from V_{Σ,k} and a smallest multiset 𝒜 of edges from E_{Σ,k} to make it Eulerian. Note that extending dBGs is algorithmically much more challenging than extending general directed multigraphs because some edges in dBGs are by definition forbidden. Extending dBGs lies at the heart of sequence assembly [Medvedev et al., WABI 2007], one of the most important tasks in bioinformatics. The novelty of our work with respect to existing works is that we allow not only to duplicate existing edges of G_{S,k} but to also add novel edges and nodes, in an effort to (i) connect multiple components and (ii) reduce the total EE cost. It is easy to show that EE on G_{S,k} is NP-hard via a reduction from shortest common superstring. We further show that EE remains NP-hard, even when we are not allowed to add new nodes, via a highly non-trivial reduction from 3-SAT. We thus investigate the following two problems underlying EE in dBGs: 1) When G_{S,k} is not weakly connected, we are asked to connect its d > 1 components using a minimum-weight spanning tree, whose edges are paths on the underlying G_{Σ,k} and weights are the corresponding path lengths. This way of connecting guarantees that no new unbalanced node is added. We show that this problem can be solved in 𝒪(|V|klog d+|E|) time, which is nearly optimal, since the size of G_{S,k} is Θ(|V|k+|E|). 2) When G_{S,k} is not balanced, we are asked to extend G_{S,k} to H_{S,k}(V∪ℬ,E∪𝒜) such that every node of H_{S,k} is balanced and the total number |𝒜| of added edges is minimized. We show that this problem can be solved in the optimal 𝒪(k|V| + |E|+ |𝒜|) time. Let us stress that, although our main contributions are theoretical, the algorithms we design for the above two problems are practical. We combine the two algorithms in one method that makes any dBG Eulerian; and show experimentally that the cost of the obtained feasible solutions on real-world dBGs is substantially smaller than the corresponding cost obtained by existing greedy approaches.

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Giulia Bernardini, Huiping Chen, Grigorios Loukides, Solon P. Pissis, Leen Stougie, and Michelle Sweering. Making de Bruijn Graphs Eulerian. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 12:1-12:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bernardini_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.12,
  author =	{Bernardini, Giulia and Chen, Huiping and Loukides, Grigorios and Pissis, Solon P. and Stougie, Leen and Sweering, Michelle},
  title =	{{Making de Bruijn Graphs Eulerian}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161391},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: string algorithms, graph algorithms, Eulerian graph, de Bruijn graph}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.13

Back-To-Front Online Lyndon Forest Construction

Authors: Golnaz Badkobeh, Maxime Crochemore, Jonas Ellert, and Cyril Nicaud

Abstract

A Lyndon word is a word that is lexicographically smaller than all of its non-trivial rotations (e.g. ananas is a Lyndon word; banana is not a Lyndon word due to its smaller rotation abanan). The Lyndon forest (or equivalently Lyndon table) identifies maximal Lyndon factors of a word, and is of great combinatoric interest, e.g. when finding maximal repetitions in words. While optimal linear time algorithms for computing the Lyndon forest are known, none of them work in an online manner. We present algorithms that compute the Lyndon forest of a word in a reverse online manner, processing the input word from back to front. We assume a general ordered alphabet, i.e. the only elementary operations on symbols are comparisons of the form less-equal-greater. We start with a naive algorithm and show that, despite its quadratic worst-case behaviour, it already takes expected linear time on words drawn uniformly at random. We then introduce a much more sophisticated algorithm that takes linear time in the worst case. It borrows some ideas from the offline algorithm by Bille et al. (ICALP 2020), combined with new techniques that are necessary for the reverse online setting. While the back-to-front approach for this computation is rather natural (see Franek and Liut, PSC 2019), the steps required to achieve linear time are surprisingly intricate. We envision that our algorithm will be useful for the online computation of maximal repetitions in words.

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Golnaz Badkobeh, Maxime Crochemore, Jonas Ellert, and Cyril Nicaud. Back-To-Front Online Lyndon Forest Construction. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 13:1-13:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{badkobeh_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.13,
  author =	{Badkobeh, Golnaz and Crochemore, Maxime and Ellert, Jonas and Nicaud, Cyril},
  title =	{{Back-To-Front Online Lyndon Forest Construction}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161404},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lyndon factorisation, Lyndon forest, Lyndon table, Lyndon array, right Lyndon tree, Cartesian tree, standard factorisation, online algorithms}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.14

Cartesian Tree Subsequence Matching

Authors: Tsubasa Oizumi, Takeshi Kai, Takuya Mieno, Shunsuke Inenaga, and Hiroki Arimura

Abstract

Park et al. [TCS 2020] observed that the similarity between two (numerical) strings can be captured by the Cartesian trees: The Cartesian tree of a string is a binary tree recursively constructed by picking up the smallest value of the string as the root of the tree. Two strings of equal length are said to Cartesian-tree match if their Cartesian trees are isomorphic. Park et al. [TCS 2020] introduced the following Cartesian tree substring matching (CTMStr) problem: Given a text string T of length n and a pattern string of length m, find every consecutive substring S = T[i..j] of a text string T such that S and P Cartesian-tree match. They showed how to solve this problem in Õ(n+m) time. In this paper, we introduce the Cartesian tree subsequence matching (CTMSeq) problem, that asks to find every minimal substring S = T[i..j] of T such that S contains a subsequence S' which Cartesian-tree matches P. We prove that the CTMSeq problem can be solved efficiently, in O(m n p(n)) time, where p(n) denotes the update/query time for dynamic predecessor queries. By using a suitable dynamic predecessor data structure, we obtain O(mn log log n)-time and O(n log m)-space solution for CTMSeq. This contrasts CTMSeq with closely related order-preserving subsequence matching (OPMSeq) which was shown to be NP-hard by Bose et al. [IPL 1998].

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Tsubasa Oizumi, Takeshi Kai, Takuya Mieno, Shunsuke Inenaga, and Hiroki Arimura. Cartesian Tree Subsequence Matching. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 14:1-14:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{oizumi_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.14,
  author =	{Oizumi, Tsubasa and Kai, Takeshi and Mieno, Takuya and Inenaga, Shunsuke and Arimura, Hiroki},
  title =	{{Cartesian Tree Subsequence Matching}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161414},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: string algorithms, pattern matching, Cartesian tree subsequence matching, order preserving matching, episode matching}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15

Polynomial-Time Equivalences and Refined Algorithms for Longest Common Subsequence Variants

Authors: Yuichi Asahiro, Jesper Jansson, Guohui Lin, Eiji Miyano, Hirotaka Ono, and Tadatoshi Utashima

Abstract

The problem of computing the longest common subsequence of two sequences (LCS for short) is a classical and fundamental problem in computer science. In this paper, we study four variants of LCS: the Repetition-Bounded Longest Common Subsequence problem (RBLCS) [Yuichi Asahiro et al., 2020], the Multiset-Restricted Common Subsequence problem (MRCS) [Radu Stefan Mincu and Alexandru Popa, 2018], the Two-Side-Filled Longest Common Subsequence problem (2FLCS), and the One-Side-Filled Longest Common Subsequence problem (1FLCS) [Mauro Castelli et al., 2017; Mauro Castelli et al., 2019]. Although the original LCS can be solved in polynomial time, all these four variants are known to be NP-hard. Recently, an exact, O(1.44225ⁿ)-time, dynamic programming (DP)-based algorithm for RBLCS was proposed [Yuichi Asahiro et al., 2020], where the two input sequences have lengths n and poly(n). We first establish that each of MRCS, 1FLCS, and 2FLCS is polynomially equivalent to RBLCS. Then, we design a refined DP-based algorithm for RBLCS that runs in O(1.41422ⁿ) time, which implies that MRCS, 1FLCS, and 2FLCS can also be solved in O(1.41422ⁿ) time. Finally, we give a polynomial-time 2-approximation algorithm for 2FLCS.

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Yuichi Asahiro, Jesper Jansson, Guohui Lin, Eiji Miyano, Hirotaka Ono, and Tadatoshi Utashima. Polynomial-Time Equivalences and Refined Algorithms for Longest Common Subsequence Variants. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 15:1-15:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{asahiro_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15,
  author =	{Asahiro, Yuichi and Jansson, Jesper and Lin, Guohui and Miyano, Eiji and Ono, Hirotaka and Utashima, Tadatoshi},
  title =	{{Polynomial-Time Equivalences and Refined Algorithms for Longest Common Subsequence Variants}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161424},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Repetition-bounded longest common subsequence problem, multiset restricted longest common subsequence problem, one-side-filled longest common subsequence problem, two-side-filled longest common subsequence problem, exact algorithms, and approximation algorithms}
}

@InProceedings{asahiro_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15,
  author =	{Asahiro, Yuichi and Jansson, Jesper and Lin, Guohui and Miyano, Eiji and Ono, Hirotaka and Utashima, Tadatoshi},
  title =	{{Polynomial-Time Equivalences and Refined Algorithms for Longest Common Subsequence Variants}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161424},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Repetition-bounded longest common subsequence problem, multiset restricted longest common subsequence problem, one-side-filled longest common subsequence problem, two-side-filled longest common subsequence problem, exact algorithms, and approximation algorithms}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.16

On Strings Having the Same Length- k Substrings

Authors: Giulia Bernardini, Alessio Conte, Esteban Gabory, Roberto Grossi, Grigorios Loukides, Solon P. Pissis, Giulia Punzi, and Michelle Sweering

Abstract

Let Substr_k(X) denote the set of length-k substrings of a given string X for a given integer k > 0. We study the following basic string problem, called z-Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent Strings: Given a set 𝒮_k of n length-k strings and an integer z > 0, list z shortest distinct strings T₁,…,T_z such that Substr_k(T_i) = 𝒮_k, for all i ∈ [1,z]. The z-Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent Strings problem arises naturally as an encoding problem in many real-world applications; e.g., in data privacy, in data compression, and in bioinformatics. The 1-Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent Strings, referred to as Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent String, asks for a shortest string X such that Substr_k(X) = 𝒮_k. Our main contributions are summarized below: - Given a directed graph G(V,E), the Directed Chinese Postman (DCP) problem asks for a shortest closed walk that visits every edge of G at least once. DCP can be solved in 𝒪̃(|E||V|) time using an algorithm for min-cost flow. We show, via a non-trivial reduction, that if Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent String over a binary alphabet has a near-linear-time solution then so does DCP. - We show that the length of a shortest string output by Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent String is in 𝒪(k+n²). We generalize this bound by showing that the total length of z shortest strings is in 𝒪(zk+zn²+z²n). We derive these upper bounds by showing (asymptotically tight) bounds on the total length of z shortest Eulerian walks in general directed graphs. - We present an algorithm for solving z-Shortest 𝒮_k-Equivalent Strings in 𝒪(nk+n²log²n+zn²log n+|output|) time. If z = 1, the time becomes 𝒪(nk+n²log²n) by the fact that the size of the input is Θ(nk) and the size of the output is 𝒪(k+n²).

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Giulia Bernardini, Alessio Conte, Esteban Gabory, Roberto Grossi, Grigorios Loukides, Solon P. Pissis, Giulia Punzi, and Michelle Sweering. On Strings Having the Same Length- k Substrings. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 16:1-16:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bernardini_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.16,
  author =	{Bernardini, Giulia and Conte, Alessio and Gabory, Esteban and Grossi, Roberto and Loukides, Grigorios and Pissis, Solon P. and Punzi, Giulia and Sweering, Michelle},
  title =	{{On Strings Having the Same Length- k Substrings}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161439},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: string algorithms, combinatorics on words, de Bruijn graph, Chinese Postman}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17

The Normalized Edit Distance with Uniform Operation Costs Is a Metric

Authors: Dana Fisman, Joshua Grogin, Oded Margalit, and Gera Weiss

Abstract

We prove that the normalized edit distance proposed in [Marzal and Vidal 1993] is a metric when the cost of all the edit operations are the same. This closes a long standing gap in the literature where several authors noted that this distance does not satisfy the triangle inequality in the general case, and that it was not known whether it is satisfied in the uniform case - where all the edit costs are equal. We compare this metric to two normalized metrics proposed as alternatives in the literature, when people thought that Marzal’s and Vidal’s distance is not a metric, and identify key properties that explain why the original distance, now known to also be a metric, is better for some applications. Our examination is from a point of view of formal verification, but the properties and their significance are stated in an application agnostic way.

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Dana Fisman, Joshua Grogin, Oded Margalit, and Gera Weiss. The Normalized Edit Distance with Uniform Operation Costs Is a Metric. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 17:1-17:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{fisman_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17,
  author =	{Fisman, Dana and Grogin, Joshua and Margalit, Oded and Weiss, Gera},
  title =	{{The Normalized Edit Distance with Uniform Operation Costs Is a Metric}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161446},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: edit distance, normalized distance, triangle inequality, metric}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.18

The Dynamic k-Mismatch Problem

Authors: Raphaël Clifford, Paweł Gawrychowski, Tomasz Kociumaka, Daniel P. Martin, and Przemysław Uznański

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The text-to-pattern Hamming distances problem asks to compute the Hamming distances between a given pattern of length m and all length-m substrings of a given text of length n ≥ m. We focus on the well-studied k-mismatch version of the problem, where a distance needs to be returned only if it does not exceed a threshold k. Moreover, we assume n ≤ 2m (in general, one can partition the text into overlapping blocks). In this work, we develop data structures for the dynamic version of the k-mismatch problem supporting two operations: An update performs a single-letter substitution in the pattern or the text, whereas a query, given an index i, returns the Hamming distance between the pattern and the text substring starting at position i, or reports that the distance exceeds k. First, we describe a simple data structure with 𝒪̃(1) update time and 𝒪̃(k) query time. Through considerably more sophisticated techniques, we show that 𝒪̃(k) update time and 𝒪̃(1) query time is also achievable. These two solutions likely provide an essentially optimal trade-off for the dynamic k-mismatch problem with m^{Ω(1)} ≤ k ≤ √m: we prove that, in that case, conditioned on the 3SUM conjecture, one cannot simultaneously achieve k^{1-Ω(1)} time for all operations (updates and queries) after n^{𝒪(1)}-time initialization. For k ≥ √m, the same lower bound excludes achieving m^{1/2-Ω(1)} time per operation. This is known to be essentially tight for constant-sized alphabets: already Clifford et al. (STACS 2018) achieved 𝒪̃(√m) time per operation in that case, but their solution for large alphabets costs 𝒪̃(m^{3/4}) time per operation. We improve and extend the latter result by developing a trade-off algorithm that, given a parameter 1 ≤ x ≤ k, achieves update time 𝒪̃(m/k +√{mk/x}) and query time 𝒪̃(x). In particular, for k ≥ √m, an appropriate choice of x yields 𝒪̃(∛{mk}) time per operation, which is 𝒪̃(m^{2/3}) when only the trivial threshold k = m is provided.

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Raphaël Clifford, Paweł Gawrychowski, Tomasz Kociumaka, Daniel P. Martin, and Przemysław Uznański. The Dynamic k-Mismatch Problem. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 18:1-18:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{clifford_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.18,
  author =	{Clifford, Rapha\"{e}l and Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Kociumaka, Tomasz and Martin, Daniel P. and Uzna\'{n}ski, Przemys{\l}aw},
  title =	{{The Dynamic k-Mismatch Problem}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161454},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Pattern matching, Hamming distance, dynamic algorithms}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.19

Indexable Elastic Founder Graphs of Minimum Height

Authors: Nicola Rizzo and Veli Mäkinen

Abstract

Indexable elastic founder graphs have been recently proposed as a data structure for genomics applications supporting fast pattern matching queries. Consider segmenting a multiple sequence alignment MSA[1..m,1..n] into b blocks MSA[1..m,1..j₁], MSA[1..m,j₁+1..j₂], …, MSA[1..m,j_{b-1}+1..n]. The resulting elastic founder graph (EFG) is obtained by merging in each block the strings that are equivalent after the removal of gap symbols, taking the strings as the nodes of the block and the original MSA connections as edges. We call an elastic founder graph indexable if a node label occurs as a prefix of only those paths that start from a node of the same block. Equi et al. (ISAAC 2021) showed that such EFGs support fast pattern matching and studied their construction maximizing the number of blocks and minimizing the maximum length of a block, but left open the case of minimizing the maximum number of distinct strings in a block that we call graph height. For the simplified gapless setting, we give an O(mn) time algorithm to find a segmentation of an MSA minimizing the height of the resulting indexable founder graph, by combining previous results in segmentation algorithms and founder graphs. For the general setting, the known techniques yield a linear-time parameterized solution on constant alphabet Σ, taking time O(m n² log|Σ|) in the worst case, so we study the refined measure of prefix-aware height, that omits counting strings that are prefixes of another considered string. The indexable EFG minimizing the maximum prefix-aware height provides a lower bound for the original height: by exploiting exploiting suffix trees built from the MSA rows and the data structure answering weighted ancestor queries in constant time of Belazzougui et al. (CPM 2021), we give an O(mn)-time algorithm for the optimal EFG under this alternative height.

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Nicola Rizzo and Veli Mäkinen. Indexable Elastic Founder Graphs of Minimum Height. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 19:1-19:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{rizzo_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.19,
  author =	{Rizzo, Nicola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
  title =	{{Indexable Elastic Founder Graphs of Minimum Height}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161467},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: multiple sequence alignment, pattern matching, data structures, segmentation algorithms, dynamic programming, suffix tree}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.20

Longest Palindromic Substring in Sublinear Time

Authors: Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Solon P. Pissis, and Jakub Radoszewski

Abstract

We revisit the classic algorithmic problem of computing a longest palidromic substring. This problem is solvable by a celebrated 𝒪(n)-time algorithm [Manacher, J. ACM 1975], where n is the length of the input string. For small alphabets, 𝒪(n) is not necessarily optimal in the word RAM model of computation: a string of length n over alphabet [0,σ) can be stored in 𝒪(n log σ/log n) space and read in 𝒪(n log σ/log n) time. We devise a simple 𝒪(n log σ/log n)-time algorithm for computing a longest palindromic substring. In particular, our algorithm works in sublinear time if σ = 2^{o(log n)}. Our technique relies on periodicity and on the 𝒪(n log σ/log n)-time constructible data structure of Kempa and Kociumaka [STOC 2019] that answers longest common extension queries in 𝒪(1) time.

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Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Solon P. Pissis, and Jakub Radoszewski. Longest Palindromic Substring in Sublinear Time. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 20:1-20:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{charalampopoulos_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.20,
  author =	{Charalampopoulos, Panagiotis and Pissis, Solon P. and Radoszewski, Jakub},
  title =	{{Longest Palindromic Substring in Sublinear Time}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:9},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161472},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: string algorithms, longest palindromic substring, longest common extension}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.21

Permutation Pattern Matching for Doubly Partially Ordered Patterns

Authors: Laurent Bulteau, Guillaume Fertin, Vincent Jugé, and Stéphane Vialette

Abstract

We study in this paper the Doubly Partially Ordered Pattern Matching (or DPOP Matching) problem, a natural extension of the Permutation Pattern Matching problem. Permutation Pattern Matching takes as input two permutations σ and π, and asks whether there exists an occurrence of σ in π; whereas DPOP Matching takes two partial orders P_v and P_p defined on the same set X and a permutation π, and asks whether there exist |X| elements in π whose values (resp., positions) are in accordance with P_v (resp., P_p). Posets P_v and P_p aim at relaxing the conditions formerly imposed by the permutation σ, since σ yields a total order on both positions and values. Our problem being NP-hard in general (as Permutation Pattern Matching is), we consider restrictions on several parameters/properties of the input, e.g., bounding the size of the pattern, assuming symmetry of the posets (i.e., P_v and P_p are identical), assuming that one partial order is a total (resp., weak) order, bounding the length of the longest chain/anti-chain in the posets, or forbidding specific patterns in π. For each such restriction, we provide results which together give a(n almost) complete landscape for the algorithmic complexity of the problem.

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Laurent Bulteau, Guillaume Fertin, Vincent Jugé, and Stéphane Vialette. Permutation Pattern Matching for Doubly Partially Ordered Patterns. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 21:1-21:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bulteau_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.21,
  author =	{Bulteau, Laurent and Fertin, Guillaume and Jug\'{e}, Vincent and Vialette, St\'{e}phane},
  title =	{{Permutation Pattern Matching for Doubly Partially Ordered Patterns}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161481},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Partial orders, Permutations, Pattern Matching, Algorithmic Complexity, Parameterized Complexity}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.22

Linear-Time Computation of Shortest Covers of All Rotations of a String

Authors: Maxime Crochemore, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Juliusz Straszyński, Tomasz Waleń, and Wiktor Zuba

Abstract

We show that lengths of shortest covers of all rotations of a length-n string over an integer alphabet can be computed in 𝒪(n) time in the word-RAM model, thus improving an 𝒪(n log n)-time algorithm from Crochemore et al. (Theor. Comput. Sci., 2021). Similarly as Crochemore et al., we use a relation of covers of rotations of a string S to seeds and squares in S³. The crucial parameter of a string S is the number ξ(S) of primitive covers of all rotations of S. We show first that the time complexity of the algorithm from Crochemore et al. can be slightly improved which results in time complexity Θ(ξ(S)). However, we also show that in the worst case ξ(S) is Ω(|S|log |S|). This is the main difficulty in obtaining a linear time algorithm. We overcome it and obtain yet another application of runs in strings.

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Maxime Crochemore, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Juliusz Straszyński, Tomasz Waleń, and Wiktor Zuba. Linear-Time Computation of Shortest Covers of All Rotations of a String. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 22:1-22:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{crochemore_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.22,
  author =	{Crochemore, Maxime and Iliopoulos, Costas S. and Radoszewski, Jakub and Rytter, Wojciech and Straszy\'{n}ski, Juliusz and Wale\'{n}, Tomasz and Zuba, Wiktor},
  title =	{{Linear-Time Computation of Shortest Covers of All Rotations of a String}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161495},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: cover, quasiperiod, cyclic rotation, seed, run}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.23

Rectangular Tile Covers of 2D-Strings

Authors: Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Juliusz Straszyński, Tomasz Waleń, and Wiktor Zuba

Abstract

We consider tile covers of 2D-strings which are a generalization of periodicity of 1D-strings. We say that a 2D-string A is a tile cover of a 2D-string S if S can be decomposed into non-overlapping 2D-strings, each of them equal to A or to A^T, where A^T is the transpose of A. We show that all tile covers of a 2D-string of size N can be computed in 𝒪(N^{1+ε}) time for any ε > 0. We also show a linear-time algorithm for computing all 1D-strings being tile covers of a 2D-string.

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Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Juliusz Straszyński, Tomasz Waleń, and Wiktor Zuba. Rectangular Tile Covers of 2D-Strings. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 23:1-23:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{radoszewski_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.23,
  author =	{Radoszewski, Jakub and Rytter, Wojciech and Straszy\'{n}ski, Juliusz and Wale\'{n}, Tomasz and Zuba, Wiktor},
  title =	{{Rectangular Tile Covers of 2D-Strings}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161508},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: tile cover, periodicity, efficient algorithm}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.24

Reordering a Tree According to an Order on Its Leaves

Authors: Laurent Bulteau, Philippe Gambette, and Olga Seminck

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In this article, we study two problems consisting in reordering a tree to fit with an order on its leaves provided as input, which were earlier introduced in the context of phylogenetic tree comparison for bioinformatics, OTCM and OTDE. The first problem consists in finding an order which minimizes the number of inversions with an input order on the leaves, while the second one consists in removing the minimum number of leaves from the tree to make it consistent with the input order on the remaining leaves. We show that both problems are NP-complete when the maximum degree is not bounded, as well as a problem on tree alignment, answering two questions opened in 2010 by Henning Fernau, Michael Kaufmann and Mathias Poths. We provide a polynomial-time algorithm for OTDE in the case where the maximum degree is bounded by a constant and an FPT algorithm in a parameter lower than the number of leaves to delete. Our results have practical interest not only for bioinformatics but also for digital humanities to evaluate, for example, the consistency of the dendrogram obtained from a hierarchical clustering algorithm with a chronological ordering of its leaves. We explore the possibilities of practical use of our results both on trees obtained by clustering the literary works of French authors and on simulated data, using implementations of our algorithms in Python.

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Laurent Bulteau, Philippe Gambette, and Olga Seminck. Reordering a Tree According to an Order on Its Leaves. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 24:1-24:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bulteau_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.24,
  author =	{Bulteau, Laurent and Gambette, Philippe and Seminck, Olga},
  title =	{{Reordering a Tree According to an Order on Its Leaves}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161516},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: tree, clustering, order, permutation, inversions, FPT algorithm, NP-hardness, tree drawing, OTCM, OTDE, TTDE}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.25

A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of BWT Variants for String Collections

Authors: Davide Cenzato and Zsuzsanna Lipták

Abstract

The extended Burrows-Wheeler-Transform (eBWT), introduced by Mantaci et al. [Theor. Comput. Sci., 2007], is a generalization of the Burrows-Wheeler-Transform (BWT) to multisets of strings. While the original BWT is based on the lexicographic order, the eBWT uses the omega-order, which differs from the lexicographic order in important ways. A number of tools are available that compute the BWT of string collections; however, the data structures they generate in most cases differ from the one originally defined, as well as from each other. In this paper, we review the differences between these BWT variants, both from a theoretical and from a practical point of view, comparing them on several real-life datasets with different characteristics. We find that the differences can be extensive, depending on the dataset characteristics, and are largest on collections of many highly similar short sequences. The widely-used parameter r, the number of runs of the BWT, also shows notable variation between the different BWT variants; on our datasets, it varied by a multiplicative factor of up to 4.2.

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Davide Cenzato and Zsuzsanna Lipták. A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of BWT Variants for String Collections. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 25:1-25:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{cenzato_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.25,
  author =	{Cenzato, Davide and Lipt\'{a}k, Zsuzsanna},
  title =	{{A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of BWT Variants for String Collections}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161529},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Burrows-Wheeler-Transform, extended BWT, string collections, repetitiveness measures, r, compression}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.26

{RePair} Grammars Are the Smallest Grammars for Fibonacci Words

Authors: Takuya Mieno, Shunsuke Inenaga, and Takashi Horiyama

Abstract

Grammar-based compression is a loss-less data compression scheme that represents a given string w by a context-free grammar that generates only w. While computing the smallest grammar which generates a given string w is NP-hard in general, a number of polynomial-time grammar-based compressors which work well in practice have been proposed. RePair, proposed by Larsson and Moffat in 1999, is a grammar-based compressor which recursively replaces all possible occurrences of a most frequently occurring bigrams in the string. Since there can be multiple choices of the most frequent bigrams to replace, different implementations of RePair can result in different grammars. In this paper, we show that the smallest grammars generating the Fibonacci words F_k can be completely characterized by RePair, where F_k denotes the k-th Fibonacci word. Namely, all grammars for F_k generated by any implementation of RePair are the smallest grammars for F_k, and no other grammars can be the smallest for F_k. To the best of our knowledge, Fibonacci words are the first non-trivial infinite family of strings for which RePair is optimal.

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Takuya Mieno, Shunsuke Inenaga, and Takashi Horiyama. {RePair} Grammars Are the Smallest Grammars for Fibonacci Words. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 26:1-26:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{mieno_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.26,
  author =	{Mieno, Takuya and Inenaga, Shunsuke and Horiyama, Takashi},
  title =	{{\{RePair\} Grammars Are the Smallest Grammars for Fibonacci Words}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161530},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: grammar based compression, Fibonacci words, RePair, smallest grammar problem}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.27

Minimal Absent Words on Run-Length Encoded Strings

Authors: Tooru Akagi, Kouta Okabe, Takuya Mieno, Yuto Nakashima, and Shunsuke Inenaga

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A string w is called a minimal absent word for another string T if w does not occur (as a substring) in T and all proper substrings of w occur in T. State-of-the-art data structures for reporting the set MAW(T) of MAWs from a given string T of length n require O(n) space, can be built in O(n) time, and can report all MAWs in O(|MAW(T)|) time upon a query. This paper initiates the problem of computing MAWs from a compressed representation of a string. In particular, we focus on the most basic compressed representation of a string, run-length encoding (RLE), which represents each maximal run of the same characters a by a^p where p is the length of the run. Let m be the RLE-size of string T. After categorizing the MAWs into five disjoint sets ℳ₁, ℳ₂, ℳ₃, ℳ₄, ℳ₅ using RLE, we present matching upper and lower bounds for the number of MAWs in ℳ_i for i = 1,2,4,5 in terms of RLE-size m, except for ℳ₃ whose size is unbounded by m. We then present a compact O(m)-space data structure that can report all MAWs in optimal O(|MAW(T)|) time.

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Tooru Akagi, Kouta Okabe, Takuya Mieno, Yuto Nakashima, and Shunsuke Inenaga. Minimal Absent Words on Run-Length Encoded Strings. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 27:1-27:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{akagi_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.27,
  author =	{Akagi, Tooru and Okabe, Kouta and Mieno, Takuya and Nakashima, Yuto and Inenaga, Shunsuke},
  title =	{{Minimal Absent Words on Run-Length Encoded Strings}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161545},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: string algorithms, combinatorics on words, minimal absent words, run-length encoding}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.28

Parallel Algorithm for Pattern Matching Problems Under Substring Consistent Equivalence Relations

Authors: Davaajav Jargalsaikhan, Diptarama Hendrian, Ryo Yoshinaka, and Ayumi Shinohara

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Given a text and a pattern over an alphabet, the pattern matching problem searches for all occurrences of the pattern in the text. An equivalence relation ≈ is a substring consistent equivalence relation (SCER), if for two strings X and Y, X ≈ Y implies |X| = |Y| and X[i:j] ≈ Y[i:j] for all 1 ≤ i ≤ j ≤ |X|. In this paper, we propose an efficient parallel algorithm for pattern matching under any SCER using the "duel-and-sweep" paradigm. For a pattern of length m and a text of length n, our algorithm runs in O(ξ_m^t log³ m) time and O(ξ_m^w ⋅ n log² m) work, with O(τ_n^t + ξ_m^t log² m) time and O(τ_n^w + ξ_m^w ⋅ m log² m) work preprocessing on the Priority Concurrent Read Concurrent Write Parallel Random-Access Machines (P-CRCW PRAM), where τ_n^t, τ_n^w, ξ_m^t, and ξ_m^w are parameters dependent on SCERs, which are often linear in n and m, respectively.

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Davaajav Jargalsaikhan, Diptarama Hendrian, Ryo Yoshinaka, and Ayumi Shinohara. Parallel Algorithm for Pattern Matching Problems Under Substring Consistent Equivalence Relations. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 28:1-28:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{jargalsaikhan_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.28,
  author =	{Jargalsaikhan, Davaajav and Hendrian, Diptarama and Yoshinaka, Ryo and Shinohara, Ayumi},
  title =	{{Parallel Algorithm for Pattern Matching Problems Under Substring Consistent Equivalence Relations}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161552},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: parallel algorithm, substring consistent equivalence relation, pattern matching}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.29

Efficient Construction of the BWT for Repetitive Text Using String Compression

Authors: Diego Díaz-Domínguez and Gonzalo Navarro

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We present a new semi-external algorithm that builds the Burrows-Wheeler transform variant of Bauer et al. (a.k.a., BCR BWT) in linear expected time. Our method uses compression techniques to reduce the computational costs when the input is massive and repetitive. Concretely, we build on induced suffix sorting (ISS) and resort to run-length and grammar compression to maintain our intermediate results in compact form. Our compression format not only saves space, but it also speeds up the required computations. Our experiments show important savings in both space and computation time when the text is repetitive. On average, we are 3.7x faster than the baseline compressed approach, while maintaining a similar memory consumption. These results make our method stand out as the only one (to our knowledge) that can build the BCR BWT of a collection of 25 human genomes (75 GB) in about 7.3 hours, and using only 27 GB of working memory.

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Diego Díaz-Domínguez and Gonzalo Navarro. Efficient Construction of the BWT for Repetitive Text Using String Compression. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 29:1-29:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{diazdominguez_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.29,
  author =	{D{\'\i}az-Dom{\'\i}nguez, Diego and Navarro, Gonzalo},
  title =	{{Efficient Construction of the BWT for Repetitive Text Using String Compression}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161564},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: BWT, string compression, repetitive text}
}

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