Simple, Fast and Lightweight Parallel Wavelet Tree Construction

The wavelet tree (Grossi et al. [SODA, 2003]) and wavelet matrix (Claude et al. [Inf. Syst., 47:15--32, 2015]) are compact indices for texts over an alphabet \([0,\sigma)\) that support rank, select and access queries in \(O(\lg \sigma)\) time. We first present new practical sequential and parallel...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-11
Main Authors: Fischer, Johannes, Kurpicz, Florian, Löbel, Marvin
Format: Article
Language:English
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Algorithms
Construction
Wavelet analysis
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Summary:The wavelet tree (Grossi et al. [SODA, 2003]) and wavelet matrix (Claude et al. [Inf. Syst., 47:15--32, 2015]) are compact indices for texts over an alphabet \([0,\sigma)\) that support rank, select and access queries in \(O(\lg \sigma)\) time. We first present new practical sequential and parallel algorithms for wavelet tree construction. Their unifying characteristics is that they construct the wavelet tree bottomup}, i.e., they compute the last level first. We also show that this bottom-up construction can easily be adapted to wavelet matrices. In practice, our best sequential algorithm is up to twice as fast as the currently fastest sequential wavelet tree construction algorithm (Shun [DCC, 2015]), simultaneously saving a factor of 2 in space. This scales up to 32 cores, where we are about equally fast as the currently fastest parallel wavelet tree construction algorithm (Labeit et al. [DCC, 2016]), but still use only about 75 % of the space. An additional theoretical result shows how to adapt any wavelet tree construction algorithm to the wavelet matrix in the same (asymptotic) time, using only little extra space.
ISSN:2331-8422