Computer Science – Data Structures and Algorithms
Scientific paper
2006-04-10
ACM Transactions on Algorithms 6(1): (2009)
Computer Science
Data Structures and Algorithms
10 pages, 5 figures, 5 .tex files where TED.tex is the main one
Scientific paper
10.1145/1644015.1644017
The {\em edit distance} between two ordered trees with vertex labels is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling existing nodes, as well as inserting new nodes. In this paper, we present a worst-case $O(n^3)$-time algorithm for this problem, improving the previous best $O(n^3\log n)$-time algorithm~\cite{Klein}. Our result requires a novel adaptive strategy for deciding how a dynamic program divides into subproblems (which is interesting in its own right), together with a deeper understanding of the previous algorithms for the problem. We also prove the optimality of our algorithm among the family of \emph{decomposition strategy} algorithms--which also includes the previous fastest algorithms--by tightening the known lower bound of $\Omega(n^2\log^2 n)$~\cite{Touzet} to $\Omega(n^3)$, matching our algorithm's running time. Furthermore, we obtain matching upper and lower bounds of $\Theta(n m^2 (1 + \log \frac{n}{m}))$ when the two trees have different sizes $m$ and~$n$, where $m < n$.
Demaine Erik D.
Mozes Shay
Rossman Benjamin
Weimann Oren
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