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具有离群值的近似串选择问题

On Approximating String Selection Problems with Outliers

Christina Boucher, Gad M. Landau, Avivit Levy, David Pritchard, Oren Weimann

摘要:

生物信息学中的许多问题都是关于找到近似代表给定字符串集合的字符串。我们来看看更一般的问题,其中一些输入字符串可以被归类为离群值。接近大多数字符串问题是,给定一组相同长度的字符串S和一个参数d,找到一个字符串x,使x的汉明距离d内的“非离群值”的数量最大化。我们证明了这个问题没有PTAS,除非ZPP=NP,纠正了一个十年之久的错误。大多数字符串与几个坏列的问题是找到一个最大尺寸的输入字符串的子集,使不相同的位置的数量是在最多的k,我们表明,它没有PTAS,除非P=NP。我们也观察到最接近k的弦没有EPTAS,除非W[1]=FPT。总之,离群值有助于与使用生物数据相关的模型问题,但我们发现找到近似解的问题在计算上是困难的。

英文摘要:

Many problems in bioinformatics are about finding strings that approximately represent a collection of given strings. We look at more general problems where some input strings can be classified as outliers. The Close to Most Strings problem is, given a set S of same-length strings, and a parameter d, find a string x that maximizes the number of "non-outliers" within Hamming distance d of x. We prove this problem has no PTAS unless ZPP=NP, correcting a decade-old mistake. The Most Strings with Few Bad Columns problem is to find a maximum-size subset of input strings so that the number of non-identical positions is at most k; we show it has no PTAS unless P=NP. We also observe Closest to k Strings has no EPTAS unless W[1]=FPT. In sum, outliers help model problems associated with using biological data, but we show the problem of finding an approximate solution is computationally difficult.

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