The Frequent Words Problem (The Frequent Words Problem)

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Description

Given a string of length $n$ and in input integer $k$, determine the most frequent $k$-mers in the string, i.e. the most frequent words of length $k$.

Parameters

n: length of string

k: length of words

sigma: size of alphabet

Table of Algorithms

Name Year Time Space Approximation Factor Model Reference
Naive solution 1940 $O(n)$ $O(max(n, sigma^k)$) auxiliary Exact Deterministic
Rabin Karp 1987 $O(n)$ $O(max(n, sigma^k)$) auxiliary? Exact Deterministic

Time Complexity Graph

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Space Complexity Graph

The Frequent Words Problem - Space.png

Pareto Frontier Improvements Graph

The Frequent Words Problem - Pareto Frontier.png

References/Citation

http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com/data/debugdatasets/replication/FrequentWordsProblem.pdf