A local search 2.917-approximation algorithm for duo-preservation string mapping
Xu, Yao · Chen, Yong · Luo, Taibo · Lin, Guohui
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We study the maximum duo-preservation string mapping (Max-Duo) problem, which is the complement of the well studied minimum common string partition (MCSP) problem. Both problems have applications in many fields including text compression and bioinformatics. Motivated by an earlier local search algorithm, we present an improved approximation and show that its performance ratio is no greater than 35/12 < 2.917. This beats the current best 3.25-approximation for Max-Duo. The performance analysis of our algorithm is done through a complex yet interesting amortization. Two lower bounds on the locality gap of our algorithm are also provided.
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