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### How does one know which notation of time complexity analysis to use?

In most introductory algorithm classes, notations like $O$ (Big O) and $\Theta$ are introduced, and a student would typically learn to use one of these to find the time complexity. However, there are ...
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### Efficient map data structure supporting approximate lookup

I'm looking for a data structure that supports efficient approximate lookups of keys (e.g., Levenshtein distance for strings), returning the closest possible match for the input key. The best suited ...
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### Find all pairs of strings in a set with Levenshtein distance < d

I have a set of $n =$ 100 million strings of length $l = 20$, and for each string in the set, I would like to find all the other strings in the set with Levenshtein distance $\le d = 4$ from that ...
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### Large-scale string clustering

I've more than 10 million strings of length 1-100 characters. This number will be even bigger in the future. I'm interested in clustering this data, but I'm not quite sure what would be effective at ...
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### Find the closest string to a fixed set of strings

I want to find the closest string to a fixed set of strings. The strings are all equal in length, and the number of strings in the set is relatively small (compared to all the possible strings of the ...
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### Matching strings in one set to strings in another based on Levenshtein distance

Suppose I have two sets, A and B, which each have one or more strings. I'm looking for an algorithm that'll go through each ...
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### Approximate Similarity Search

I am implementing an approximate similarity search using multi-index hashing. I have a set (T) of millions of strings (of same length) and I have a query string(P) (or set of strings) that needs to ...
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### How to find close match of levenshtein distance [duplicate]

Let's say we have some function, float distance(String a, String b) { /*...*/ } to find the Levenshtein distance between two strings, and we have a large array ...
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### Algorithm to Check for Upper Bound of Levenshtein Distance

I am looking for an algorithm that checks if the Levenshtein distance between two strings $s_1$ and $s_2$ is less than a certain upper bound $B$. I know, there are plenty of algorithms for calculating ...