English

Shotgun assembly of labeled graphs

Probability 2022-08-19 v3 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We consider the problem of reconstructing graphs or labeled graphs from neighborhoods of a given radius r. Special instances of this problem include the well known: DNA shotgun assembly; the lesser-known: neural network reconstruction; and a new problem: assembling random jigsaw puzzles. We provide some necessary and some sufficient conditions for correct recovery both in combinatorial terms and for some generative models including random labelings of lattices, Erdos-Renyi random graphs, and the random jigsaw puzzle model. Many open problems and conjectures are provided.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.07682,
  title  = {Shotgun assembly of labeled graphs},
  author = {Elchanan Mossel and Nathan Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07682},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Ver3: 23 pages, matches published version but with a corrected proof of Theorem 4.5 (result unchanged); Ver2: 22 pages; Ver1: 21 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-22T09:24:39.998Z