Dynamic Trees with Almost-Optimal Access Cost

Authors Mordecai Golin, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, J. Ian Munro, Yakov Nekrich



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Mordecai Golin
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
John Iacono
  • Université libre de Bruxelles and New York University
Stefan Langerman
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
J. Ian Munro
  • Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Yakov Nekrich
  • Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

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Mordecai Golin, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, J. Ian Munro, and Yakov Nekrich. Dynamic Trees with Almost-Optimal Access Cost. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 38:1-38:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.38

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An optimal binary search tree for an access sequence on elements is a static tree that minimizes the total search cost. Constructing perfectly optimal binary search trees is expensive so the most efficient algorithms construct almost optimal search trees. There exists a long literature of constructing almost optimal search trees dynamically, i.e., when the access pattern is not known in advance. All of these trees, e.g., splay trees and treaps, provide a multiplicative approximation to the optimal search cost.
In this paper we show how to maintain an almost optimal weighted binary search tree under access operations and insertions of new elements where the approximation is an additive constant. More technically, we maintain a tree in which the depth of the leaf holding an element e_i does not exceed min(log(W/w_i),log n)+O(1) where w_i is the number of times e_i was accessed and W is the total length of the access sequence.
Our techniques can also be used to encode a sequence of m symbols with a dynamic alphabetic code in O(m) time so that the encoding length is bounded by m(H+O(1)), where H is the entropy of the sequence. This is the first efficient algorithm for adaptive alphabetic coding that runs in constant time per symbol.

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  • Theory of computation → Data structures design and analysis
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  • Data Structures
  • Binary Search Trees
  • Adaptive Alphabetic Coding

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