Structuring labeled trees for optimal succinctness, and beyond

Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini, S. Muthukrishnan

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Abstract

Consider an ordered, static tree T on t nodes where each node has a label from alphabet set ∼. Tree T may be of arbitrary degree and of arbitrary shape. Say, we wish to support basic navigational operations such as find the parent of node u, the ith child of u, and any child of u with label α. In a seminal work over fifteen years ago, Jacobson [15] observed that pointer-based tree representations are wasteful in space and introduced the notion of succinct data structures. He studied the special case of unlabeled trees and presented a succinct data structure of 2t+o(t) bits supporting navigational operations in O(1) time. The space used is asymptotically optimal with the information-theoretic lower bound averaged over all trees. This led to a slew of results on succinct data structures for arrays, trees, strings and multisets. Still, for the fundamental problem of structuring labeled trees succinctly, few results, if any, exist even though labeled trees arise frequently in practice, e.g. in the data as in markup text (XML) or in augmented data structures. We present a novel approach to the problem of succinct manipulation of labeled trees by designing what we call the xbw transform of the tree, in the spirit of the well-known Burrows-Wheeler transform for strings, xbw transform uses path-sorting and grouping to linearize the labeled tree T into two coordinated arrays, one capturing the structure and the other the labels. Using the properties of the xbw transform, we (i) derive the first-known (near-)optimal results for succinct representation of labeled trees with O(1) time for navigation operations, (ii) optimally support the powerful subpath search operation for the first time, and (iii) introduce a notion of tree entropy and present linear time algorithms for compressing a given labeled tree up to its entropy beyond the information-theoretic lower bound averaged over all tree inputs. Our xbw transform is simple and likely to spur new results in the theory of tree compression and indexing, and may have some practical impact in XML data processing.

Lingua originaleInglese
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteProceedings - 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2005
Pagine184-193
Numero di pagine10
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2005
Pubblicato esternamente
Evento46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2005 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Durata: 23 ott 200525 ott 2005

Serie di pubblicazioni

NomeProceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
Volume2005
ISSN (stampa)0272-5428

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Paese/TerritorioUnited States
CittàPittsburgh, PA
Periodo23/10/0525/10/05

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