An Almost Optimal Edit Distance Oracle
Charalampopoulos, Panagiotis, Gawrychowski, Paweł, Mozes, Shay, Weimann, Oren · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2010
In the online set-disjointness problem the goal is to preprocess a family of sets ℱ, so that given two sets S,S' ∈ ℱ, one can quickly establish whether the two sets are disjoint or not. If N = ∑_{S ∈ ℱ} |S|, then let N^p be the preprocessing time and let N^q be the query time. The most efficient known combinatorial algorithm is a generalization of an algorithm by Cohen and Porat [TCS'10] which has a tradeoff curve of p+q = 2. Kopelowitz, Pettie, and Porat [SODA'16] showed that, based on the 3SUM hypothesis, there is a conditional lower bound curve of p+2q ≥ 2. Thus, the current state-of-the-art exhibits a large gap. The online set-intersection problem is the reporting version of the online set-disjointness problem, and given a query, the goal is to report all of the elements in the intersection. When considering algorithms with N^p preprocessing time and N^q +O(op) query time, where op is the size of the output, the combinatorial algorithm for online set-disjointess can be extended to solve online set-intersection with a tradeoff curve of p+q = 2. Kopelowitz, Pettie, and Porat [SODA'16] showed that, assuming the 3SUM hypothesis, for 0 ≤ q ≤ 2/3 this curve is tight. However, for 2/3 ≤ q 1/3 which is based on a natural hypothesis on the time required to detect a triangle in an unbalanced tripartite graph. Remarkably, even if ω > 2, the algorithm matches the lower bound curve of Kopelowitz et al. for p≥ 1.73688 and q ≤ 0.13156. - For set-intersection, we prove a conditional lower bound that matches the combinatorial upper bound curve for q≥ 1/2 which is based on a hypothesis on the time required to enumerate all triangles in an unbalanced tripartite graph. - Finally, we design algorithms for detecting and enumerating triangles in unbalanced tripartite graphs which match the lower bounds of the corresponding hypotheses, assuming ω = 2.