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Sample-Based Distance-Approximation for Subsequence-Freeness

Authors Omer Cohen Sidon, Dana Ron

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  • Theory of computation → Streaming, sublinear and near linear time algorithms
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  • Property Testing
  • Distance Approximation

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Abstract

In this work, we study the problem of approximating the distance to subsequence-freeness in the sample-based distribution-free model. For a given subsequence (word) w = w_1 … w_k, a sequence (text) T = t_1 … t_n is said to contain w if there exist indices 1 ≤ i_1 < … < i_k ≤ n such that t_{i_{j}} = w_j for every 1 ≤ j ≤ k. Otherwise, T is w-free. Ron and Rosin (ACM TOCT 2022) showed that the number of samples both necessary and sufficient for one-sided error testing of subsequence-freeness in the sample-based distribution-free model is Θ(k/ε).
Denoting by Δ(T,w,p) the distance of T to w-freeness under a distribution p:[n] → [0,1], we are interested in obtaining an estimate Δ̂, such that |Δ̂ - Δ(T,w,p)| ≤ δ with probability at least 2/3, for a given distance parameter δ. Our main result is an algorithm whose sample complexity is Õ(k²/δ²). We first present an algorithm that works when the underlying distribution p is uniform, and then show how it can be modified to work for any (unknown) distribution p. We also show that a quadratic dependence on 1/δ is necessary.

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Omer Cohen Sidon and Dana Ron. Sample-Based Distance-Approximation for Subsequence-Freeness. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 44:1-44:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.44

Author Details

Omer Cohen Sidon
  • Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dana Ron
  • Tel Aviv University, Israel

Funding

  • Ron, Dana: Supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant number 1146/18) and the Kadar-family award.

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