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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.30
Õptimal Dynamic Time Warping on Run-Length Encoded Strings

Authors: Itai Boneh, Shay Golan, Shay Mozes, and Oren Weimann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)

Abstract
Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is the optimal cost of matching two strings when extending runs of letters is for free. Therefore, it is natural to measure the time complexity of DTW in terms of the number of runs n (rather than the string lengths N). In this paper, we give an Õ(n²) time algorithm for computing the DTW distance. This matches (up to log factors) the known (conditional) lower bound, and should be compared with the previous fastest O(n³) time exact algorithm and the Õ(n²) time approximation algorithm. Our method also immediately implies an Õ(nk) time algorithm when the distance is bounded by k. This should be compared with the previous fastest O(n²k) and O(Nk) time exact algorithms and the Õ(nk) time approximation algorithm.
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Itai Boneh, Shay Golan, Shay Mozes, and Oren Weimann. Õptimal Dynamic Time Warping on Run-Length Encoded Strings. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 30:1-30:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{boneh_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.30,
  author =	{Boneh, Itai and Golan, Shay and Mozes, Shay and Weimann, Oren},
  title =	{{\~{O}ptimal Dynamic Time Warping on Run-Length Encoded Strings}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201730},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dynamic time warping, Fr\'{e}chet distance, edit distance, run-length encoding}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.10
Searching 2D-Strings for Matching Frames

Authors: Itai Boneh, Dvir Fried, Shay Golan, Matan Kraus, Adrian Miclăuş, and Arseny Shur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 296, 35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024)

Abstract
We study a natural type of repetitions in 2-dimensional strings. Such a repetition, called a matching frame, is a rectangular substring of size at least 2× 2 with equal marginal rows and equal marginal columns. Matching frames first appeared in literature in the context of Wang tiles. We present two algorithms finding a matching frame with the maximum perimeter in a given n× m input string. The first algorithm solves the problem exactly in Õ(n^{2.5}) time (assuming n ≥ m). The second algorithm finds a (1-ε)-approximate solution in Õ((nm)/ε⁴) time, which is near linear in the size of the input for constant ε. In particular, by setting ε = O(1) the second algorithm decides the existence of a matching frame in a given string in Õ(nm) time. Some technical elements and structural properties used in these algorithms can be of independent interest.
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Itai Boneh, Dvir Fried, Shay Golan, Matan Kraus, Adrian Miclăuş, and Arseny Shur. Searching 2D-Strings for Matching Frames. In 35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 296, pp. 10:1-10:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{boneh_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2024.10,
  author =	{Boneh, Itai and Fried, Dvir and Golan, Shay and Kraus, Matan and Micl\u{a}u\c{s}, Adrian and Shur, Arseny},
  title =	{{Searching 2D-Strings for Matching Frames}},
  booktitle =	{35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-326-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{296},
  editor =	{Inenaga, Shunsuke and Puglisi, Simon J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201205},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: 2D string, matching frame, LCP, multidimensional range query}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.11
Hairpin Completion Distance Lower Bound

Authors: Itai Boneh, Dvir Fried, Shay Golan, and Matan Kraus

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 296, 35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024)

Abstract
Hairpin completion, derived from the hairpin formation observed in DNA biochemistry, is an operation applied to strings, particularly useful in DNA computing. Conceptually, a right hairpin completion operation transforms a string S into S⋅ S' where S' is the reverse complement of a prefix of S. Similarly, a left hairpin completion operation transforms a string S into S'⋅ S where S' is the reverse complement of a suffix of S. The hairpin completion distance from S to T is the minimum number of hairpin completion operations needed to transform S into T. Recently Boneh et al. [Itai Boneh et al., 2023] showed an O(n²) time algorithm for finding the hairpin completion distance between two strings of length at most n. In this paper we show that for any ε > 0 there is no O(n^{2-ε})-time algorithm for the hairpin completion distance problem unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) is false. Thus, under SETH, the time complexity of the hairpin completion distance problem is quadratic, up to sub-polynomial factors.
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Itai Boneh, Dvir Fried, Shay Golan, and Matan Kraus. Hairpin Completion Distance Lower Bound. In 35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 296, pp. 11:1-11:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{boneh_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2024.11,
  author =	{Boneh, Itai and Fried, Dvir and Golan, Shay and Kraus, Matan},
  title =	{{Hairpin Completion Distance Lower Bound}},
  booktitle =	{35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-326-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{296},
  editor =	{Inenaga, Shunsuke and Puglisi, Simon J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201215},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fine-grained complexity, Hairpin completion, LCS}
}
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APPROX
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2020.46
Improved Circular k-Mismatch Sketches

Authors: Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, Tsvi Kopelowitz, Ely Porat, and Przemysław Uznański

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 176, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020)

Abstract
The shift distance sh(S₁,S₂) between two strings S₁ and S₂ of the same length is defined as the minimum Hamming distance between S₁ and any rotation (cyclic shift) of S₂. We study the problem of sketching the shift distance, which is the following communication complexity problem: Strings S₁ and S₂ of length n are given to two identical players (encoders), who independently compute sketches (summaries) sk(S₁) and sk(S₂), respectively, so that upon receiving the two sketches, a third player (decoder) is able to compute (or approximate) sh(S₁,S₂) with high probability. This paper primarily focuses on the more general k-mismatch version of the problem, where the decoder is allowed to declare a failure if sh(S₁,S₂) > k, where k is a parameter known to all parties. Andoni et al. (STOC'13) introduced exact circular k-mismatch sketches of size Õ(k+D(n)), where D(n) is the number of divisors of n. Andoni et al. also showed that their sketch size is optimal in the class of linear homomorphic sketches. We circumvent this lower bound by designing a (non-linear) exact circular k-mismatch sketch of size Õ(k); this size matches communication-complexity lower bounds. We also design (1± ε)-approximate circular k-mismatch sketch of size Õ(min(ε^{-2}√k, ε^{-1.5}√n)), which improves upon an Õ(ε^{-2}√n)-size sketch of Crouch and McGregor (APPROX'11).
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Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, Tsvi Kopelowitz, Ely Porat, and Przemysław Uznański. Improved Circular k-Mismatch Sketches. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 176, pp. 46:1-46:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2020.46,
  author =	{Golan, Shay and Kociumaka, Tomasz and Kopelowitz, Tsvi and Porat, Ely and Uzna\'{n}ski, Przemys{\l}aw},
  title =	{{Improved Circular k-Mismatch Sketches}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-164-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{176},
  editor =	{Byrka, Jaros{\l}aw and Meka, Raghu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2020.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-126492},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2020.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hamming distance, k-mismatch, sketches, rotation, cyclic shift, communication complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.5
Time-Space Tradeoffs for Finding a Long Common Substring

Authors: Stav Ben-Nun, Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, and Matan Kraus

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 161, 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)

Abstract
We consider the problem of finding, given two documents of total length n, a longest string occurring as a substring of both documents. This problem, known as the Longest Common Substring (LCS) problem, has a classic 𝒪(n)-time solution dating back to the discovery of suffix trees (Weiner, 1973) and their efficient construction for integer alphabets (Farach-Colton, 1997). However, these solutions require Θ(n) space, which is prohibitive in many applications. To address this issue, Starikovskaya and Vildhøj (CPM 2013) showed that for n^{2/3} ≤ s ≤ n, the LCS problem can be solved in 𝒪(s) space and 𝒪̃(n²/s) time. Kociumaka et al. (ESA 2014) generalized this tradeoff to 1 ≤ s ≤ n, thus providing a smooth time-space tradeoff from constant to linear space. In this paper, we obtain a significant speed-up for instances where the length L of the sought LCS is large. For 1 ≤ s ≤ n, we show that the LCS problem can be solved in 𝒪(s) space and 𝒪̃(n²/(L⋅s) +n) time. The result is based on techniques originating from the LCS with Mismatches problem (Flouri et al., 2015; Charalampopoulos et al., CPM 2018), on space-efficient locally consistent parsing (Birenzwige et al., SODA 2020), and on the structure of maximal repetitions (runs) in the input documents.
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Stav Ben-Nun, Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, and Matan Kraus. Time-Space Tradeoffs for Finding a Long Common Substring. In 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 161, pp. 5:1-5:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{bennun_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2020.5,
  author =	{Ben-Nun, Stav and Golan, Shay and Kociumaka, Tomasz and Kraus, Matan},
  title =	{{Time-Space Tradeoffs for Finding a Long Common Substring}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-149-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{161},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Weimann, Oren},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121302},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: longest common substring, time-space tradeoff, local consistency, periodicity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.15
The Streaming k-Mismatch Problem: Tradeoffs Between Space and Total Time

Authors: Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, Tsvi Kopelowitz, and Ely Porat

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 161, 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)

Abstract
We revisit the k-mismatch problem in the streaming model on a pattern of length m and a streaming text of length n, both over a size-σ alphabet. The current state-of-the-art algorithm for the streaming k-mismatch problem, by Clifford et al. [SODA 2019], uses Õ(k) space and Õ(√k) worst-case time per character. The space complexity is known to be (unconditionally) optimal, and the worst-case time per character matches a conditional lower bound. However, there is a gap between the total time cost of the algorithm, which is Õ(n√k), and the fastest known offline algorithm, which costs Õ(n + min(nk/√m, σn)) time. Moreover, it is not known whether improvements over the Õ(n√k) total time are possible when using more than O(k) space. We address these gaps by designing a randomized streaming algorithm for the k-mismatch problem that, given an integer parameter k≤s≤m, uses Õ(s) space and costs Õ(n+min(nk²/m, nk/√s, σnm/s)) total time. For s=m, the total runtime becomes Õ(n + min(nk/√m, σn)), which matches the time cost of the fastest offline algorithm. Moreover, the worst-case time cost per character is still Õ(√k).
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Shay Golan, Tomasz Kociumaka, Tsvi Kopelowitz, and Ely Porat. The Streaming k-Mismatch Problem: Tradeoffs Between Space and Total Time. In 31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 161, pp. 15:1-15:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2020.15,
  author =	{Golan, Shay and Kociumaka, Tomasz and Kopelowitz, Tsvi and Porat, Ely},
  title =	{{The Streaming k-Mismatch Problem: Tradeoffs Between Space and Total Time}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2020)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-149-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{161},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Weimann, Oren},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121406},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2020.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Streaming pattern matching, Hamming distance, k-mismatch}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.65
Towards Optimal Approximate Streaming Pattern Matching by Matching Multiple Patterns in Multiple Streams

Authors: Shay Golan, Tsvi Kopelowitz, and Ely Porat

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 107, 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)

Abstract
Recently, there has been a growing focus in solving approximate pattern matching problems in the streaming model. Of particular interest are the pattern matching with k-mismatches (KMM) problem and the pattern matching with w-wildcards (PMWC) problem. Motivated by reductions from these problems in the streaming model to the dictionary matching problem, this paper focuses on designing algorithms for the dictionary matching problem in the multi-stream model where there are several independent streams of data (as opposed to just one in the streaming model), and the memory complexity of an algorithm is expressed using two quantities: (1) a read-only shared memory storage area which is shared among all the streams, and (2) local stream memory that each stream stores separately. In the dictionary matching problem in the multi-stream model the goal is to preprocess a dictionary D={P_1,P_2,...,P_d} of d=|D| patterns (strings with maximum length m over alphabet Sigma) into a data structure stored in shared memory, so that given multiple independent streaming texts (where characters arrive one at a time) the algorithm reports occurrences of patterns from D in each one of the texts as soon as they appear. We design two efficient algorithms for the dictionary matching problem in the multi-stream model. The first algorithm works when all the patterns in D have the same length m and costs O(d log m) words in shared memory, O(log m log d) words in stream memory, and O(log m) time per character. The second algorithm works for general D, but the time cost per character becomes O(log m+log d log log d). We also demonstrate the usefulness of our first algorithm in solving both the KMM problem and PMWC problem in the streaming model. In particular, we obtain the first almost optimal (up to poly-log factors) algorithm for the PMWC problem in the streaming model. We also design a new algorithm for the KMM problem in the streaming model that, up to poly-log factors, has the same bounds as the most recent results that use different techniques. Moreover, for most inputs, our algorithm for KMM is significantly faster on average.
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Shay Golan, Tsvi Kopelowitz, and Ely Porat. Towards Optimal Approximate Streaming Pattern Matching by Matching Multiple Patterns in Multiple Streams. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 65:1-65:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.65,
  author =	{Golan, Shay and Kopelowitz, Tsvi and Porat, Ely},
  title =	{{Towards Optimal Approximate Streaming Pattern Matching by Matching Multiple Patterns in Multiple Streams}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{65:1--65:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Kaklamanis, Christos and Marx, D\'{a}niel and Sannella, Donald},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.65},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90690},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.65},
  annote =	{Keywords: Streaming approximate pattern matching, Dictionary matching}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.41
Real-Time Streaming Multi-Pattern Search for Constant Alphabet

Authors: Shay Golan and Ely Porat

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 87, 25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017)

Abstract
In the streaming multi-pattern search problem, which is also known as the streaming dictionary matching problem, a set D={P_1,P_2, . . . ,P_d} of d patterns (strings over an alphabet Sigma), called the dictionary, is given to be preprocessed. Then, a text T arrives one character at a time and the goal is to report, before the next character arrives, the longest pattern in the dictionary that is a current suffix of T. We prove that for a constant size alphabet, there exists a randomized Monte-Carlo algorithm for the streaming dictionary matching problem that takes constant time per character and uses O(d log m) words of space, where m is the length of the longest pattern in the dictionary. In the case where the alphabet size is not constant, we introduce two new randomized Monte-Carlo algorithms with the following complexities: * O(log log |Sigma|) time per character in the worst case and O(d log m) words of space. * O(1/epsilon) time per character in the worst case and O(d |\Sigma|^epsilon log m/epsilon) words of space for any 0<epsilon<= 1. These results improve upon the algorithm of [Clifford et al., ESA'15] which uses O(d log m) words of space and takes O(log log (m+d)) time per character.
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Shay Golan and Ely Porat. Real-Time Streaming Multi-Pattern Search for Constant Alphabet. In 25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 87, pp. 41:1-41:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2017.41,
  author =	{Golan, Shay and Porat, Ely},
  title =	{{Real-Time Streaming Multi-Pattern Search for Constant Alphabet}},
  booktitle =	{25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017)},
  pages =	{41:1--41:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-049-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{87},
  editor =	{Pruhs, Kirk and Sohler, Christian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.41},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-78550},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2017.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: multi-pattern, dictionary, streaming pattern matching, fingerprints}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44
Streaming Pattern Matching with d Wildcards

Authors: Shay Golan, Tsvi Kopelowitz, and Ely Porat

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 57, 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016)

Abstract
In the pattern matching with d wildcards problem we are given a text T of length n and a pattern P of length m that contains d wildcard characters, each denoted by a special symbol '?'. A wildcard character matches any other character. The goal is to establish for each m-length substring of T whether it matches P. In the streaming model variant of the pattern matching with d wildcards problem the text T arrives one character at a time and the goal is to report, before the next character arrives, if the last m characters match P while using only o(m) words of space. In this paper we introduce two new algorithms for the d wildcard pattern matching problem in the streaming model. The first is a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm that is parameterized by a constant 0<=delta<=1. This algorithm uses ~O(d^{1-delta}) amortized time per character and ~O(d^{1+delta}) words of space. The second algorithm, which is used as a black box in the first algorithm, is a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm which uses O(d+log m) worst-case time per character and O(d log m) words of space.
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Shay Golan, Tsvi Kopelowitz, and Ely Porat. Streaming Pattern Matching with d Wildcards. In 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 57, pp. 44:1-44:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44,
  author =	{Golan, Shay and Kopelowitz, Tsvi and Porat, Ely},
  title =	{{Streaming Pattern Matching with d Wildcards}},
  booktitle =	{24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016)},
  pages =	{44:1--44:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-015-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{57},
  editor =	{Sankowski, Piotr and Zaroliagis, Christos},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-63561},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.44},
  annote =	{Keywords: wildcards, don't-cares, streaming pattern matching, fingerprints}
}
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