Graph matching and edit distance algorithms form a cornerstone of modern computational techniques used to quantify the similarity between structured data. These methods underpin a wide array of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...