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Faster Binary Mean Computation Under Dynamic Time Warping

Authors Nathan Schaar, Vincent Froese, Rolf Niedermeier

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Nathan Schaar
  • Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty IV, Algorithmics and Computational Complexity, Germany
Vincent Froese
  • Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty IV, Algorithmics and Computational Complexity, Germany
Rolf Niedermeier
  • Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty IV, Algorithmics and Computational Complexity, Germany

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  • Schaar, Nathan: Partially supported by DFG NI 369/19.

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Nathan Schaar, Vincent Froese, and Rolf Niedermeier. Faster Binary Mean Computation Under Dynamic Time Warping. In 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 161, pp. 28:1-28:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.28

Abstract

Many consensus string problems are based on Hamming distance. We replace Hamming distance by the more flexible (e.g., easily coping with different input string lengths) dynamic time warping distance, best known from applications in time series mining. Doing so, we study the problem of finding a mean string that minimizes the sum of (squared) dynamic time warping distances to a given set of input strings. While this problem is known to be NP-hard (even for strings over a three-element alphabet), we address the binary alphabet case which is known to be polynomial-time solvable. We significantly improve on a previously known algorithm in terms of worst-case running time. Moreover, we also show the practical usefulness of one of our algorithms in experiments with real-world and synthetic data. Finally, we identify special cases solvable in linear time (e.g., finding a mean of only two binary input strings) and report some empirical findings concerning combinatorial properties of optimal means.

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  • Theory of computation → Dynamic programming
  • Theory of computation → Pattern matching
Keywords
  • consensus string problems
  • time series averaging
  • minimum 1-separated sum
  • sparse strings

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