The Computational Hardness of Estimating Edit Distance

We prove the first nontrivial communication complexity lower bound for the problem of estimating the edit distance (aka Levenshtein distance) between two strings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first computational setting in which the complexity of estimating the edit distance is provably...

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Main Authors: Andoni, Alexandr (Contributor), Krauthgamer, Robert (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2010-09-01T20:29:39Z.
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