A Simple Representation of Tree Covering Utilizing Balanced Parentheses and Efficient Implementation of Average-Case Optimal RMQs

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Autori principali: Hamada, Kou, Chakraborty, Sankardeep, Jo, Seungbum, Koriyama, Takuto, Sadakane, Kunihiko, Satti, Srinivasa Rao
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author Hamada, Kou
Chakraborty, Sankardeep
Jo, Seungbum
Koriyama, Takuto
Sadakane, Kunihiko
Satti, Srinivasa Rao
author_facet Hamada, Kou
Chakraborty, Sankardeep
Jo, Seungbum
Koriyama, Takuto
Sadakane, Kunihiko
Satti, Srinivasa Rao
contents Tree covering is a technique for decomposing a tree into smaller-sized trees with desirable properties, and has been employed in various succinct data structures. However, significant hurdles stand in the way of a practical implementation of tree covering: a lot of pointers are used to maintain the tree-covering hierarchy and many indices for tree navigational queries consume theoretically negligible yet practically vast space. To tackle these problems, we propose a simple representation of tree covering using a balanced parenthesis representation. The key to the proposal is the observation that every micro tree splits into at most two intervals on the BP representation. Utilizing the representation, we propose several data structures that represent a tree and its tree cover, which consequently allow micro tree compression with arbitrary coding and efficient tree navigational queries. We also applied our data structure to average-case optimal RMQ by Munro et al.~[ESA 2021] and implemented the RMQ data structure. Our RMQ data structures spend less than $2n$ bits and process queries in a practical time on several settings of the performance evaluation, reducing the gap between theoretical space complexity and actual space consumption. We also implement tree navigational operations while using the same amount of space as the RMQ data structures. We believe the representation can be widely utilized for designing practically memory-efficient data structures based on tree covering.
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spellingShingle A Simple Representation of Tree Covering Utilizing Balanced Parentheses and Efficient Implementation of Average-Case Optimal RMQs
Hamada, Kou
Chakraborty, Sankardeep
Jo, Seungbum
Koriyama, Takuto
Sadakane, Kunihiko
Satti, Srinivasa Rao
Data Structures and Algorithms
Databases
Tree covering is a technique for decomposing a tree into smaller-sized trees with desirable properties, and has been employed in various succinct data structures. However, significant hurdles stand in the way of a practical implementation of tree covering: a lot of pointers are used to maintain the tree-covering hierarchy and many indices for tree navigational queries consume theoretically negligible yet practically vast space. To tackle these problems, we propose a simple representation of tree covering using a balanced parenthesis representation. The key to the proposal is the observation that every micro tree splits into at most two intervals on the BP representation. Utilizing the representation, we propose several data structures that represent a tree and its tree cover, which consequently allow micro tree compression with arbitrary coding and efficient tree navigational queries. We also applied our data structure to average-case optimal RMQ by Munro et al.~[ESA 2021] and implemented the RMQ data structure. Our RMQ data structures spend less than $2n$ bits and process queries in a practical time on several settings of the performance evaluation, reducing the gap between theoretical space complexity and actual space consumption. We also implement tree navigational operations while using the same amount of space as the RMQ data structures. We believe the representation can be widely utilized for designing practically memory-efficient data structures based on tree covering.
title A Simple Representation of Tree Covering Utilizing Balanced Parentheses and Efficient Implementation of Average-Case Optimal RMQs
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00573