RTED: A Robust Algorithm for the Tree Edit Distance
Summary: RTED delivers a robust tree edit distance for ordered labeled trees, eliminating worst-case unpredictability. LRH-wise, RTED is worst-case optimal with competitive asymptotics; experiments on synthetic and real data favor it against the state-of-the-art. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Mateusz Pawlik (Free University of Bolzano)
- 2. Nikolaus Augsten (Free University of Bolzano)
BibTeX Citation
@article{pawlik_vldb12,
title = {{RTED: A Robust Algorithm for the Tree Edit Distance}},
author = {Pawlik, Mateusz and Augsten, Nikolaus},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '12},
volume = {5},
number = {4},
pages = {334--345},
doi = {10.14778/2095686.2095691},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2095686.2095691},
year = {2012}
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| 5,465 | On Repairing Structural Problems In Semi-structured Data | 2013 | VLDB | 6.1204491e-05 |
| 6,137 | Scaling Similarity Joins over Tree-Structured Data | 2015 | VLDB | 5.8736299e-05 |
| 7,086 | Indexing for Subtree Similarity-Search using Edit Distance | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.6023777e-05 |
| 7,619 | SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4832111e-05 |
| 7,879 | To Not Miss the Forest for the Trees - A Holistic Approach for Explaining Missing Answers over Nested Data | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.4341576e-05 |
| 11,560 | X-TED: Massive Parallelization of Tree Edit Distance | 2024 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,316 | NED: An Inter-Graph Node Metric Based On Edit Distance | 2017 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,577 | Synthetising Changes in XML Documents as PULs | 2013 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| 1,531 | Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.0001033805 |
| 2,747 | Approximate XML Joins | 2002 | SIGMOD | 8.0614566e-05 |
| 3,108 | Similarity Evaluation on Tree-structured Data | 2005 | SIGMOD | 7.640323e-05 |
| 5,190 | Comparing Hierarchical Data in External Memory | 1999 | VLDB | 6.236967e-05 |
| 7,699 | An Incrementally Maintainable Index for Approximate Lookups in Hierarchical Data | 2006 | VLDB | 5.4751052e-05 |
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