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We consider a problem introduced by Mossel and Ross [Shotgun assembly of labeled graphs, arXiv:1504.07682]. Suppose a random $n\times n$ jigsaw puzzle is constructed by independently and uniformly choosing the shape of each "jig" from $q$…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Anders Martinsson

In recent work by Mossel and Ross, it was asked how large $q$ has to be for a random jigsaw puzzle with $q$ different shapes of "jigs" to have exactly one solution. The jigs are assumed symmetric in the sense that two jigs of the same type…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Anders Martinsson

A random jigsaw puzzle is constructed by arranging $n^2$ square pieces into an $n \times n$ grid and assigning to each edge of a piece one of $q$ available colours uniformly at random, with the restriction that touching edges receive the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Rajko Nenadov , Pascal Pfister , Angelika Steger

In the graph shotgun assembly problem, we are given the balls of radius $r$ around each vertex of a graph and asked to reconstruct the graph. We study the shotgun assembly of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal G(n,p)$ for a wide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Tom Johnston , Gal Kronenberg , Alexander Roberts , Alex Scott

A colouring of the edges of an $n \times n$ grid is said to be \emph{reconstructible} if the colouring is uniquely determined by the multiset of its $n^2$ \emph{tiles}, where the tile corresponding to a vertex of the grid specifies the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Paul Balister , Béla Bollobás , Bhargav Narayanan

Mossel and Ross (2019) introduce the shotgun assembly problem for random graphs: what radius $R$ ensures that the random graph $G$ can be uniquely recovered from its list of rooted $R$-neighborhoods, with high probability? Here we consider…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Brice Huang , Elchanan Mossel , Nike Sun , Claire Zhang , Leqi Zhou

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Elchanan Mossel , Nathan Ross

We study the shotgun assembly problem for the lattice labeling model, where i.i.d. uniform labels are assigned to each vertex in a $d$-dimensional box of side length $n$. We wish to recover the labeling configuration on the whole box given…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Jian Ding , Haoyu Liu

Mossel and Ross raised the question of when a random colouring of a graph can be reconstructed from local information, namely the colourings (with multiplicity) of balls of given radius. In this paper, we are concerned with random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Michał Przykucki , Alexander Roberts , Alex Scott

Graph shotgun assembly refers to the problem of reconstructing a graph from a collection of local neighborhoods. In this paper, we consider shotgun assembly of \ER random graphs $G(n, p_n)$, where $p_n = n^{-\alpha}$ for $0 < \alpha < 1$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Julia Gaudio , Elchanan Mossel

In a recent work, Huang and Tikhomirov considered the shotgun assembly for Erd\H os-R\'enyi graphs $\mathcal G(n,p_n)$ with $p_n=n^{-\alpha}$, and showed that the graph is reconstructable if $0<\alpha < \frac{1}{2}$ and not reconstructable…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Kartick Adhikari , Sukrit Chakraborty

In the shotgun assembly problem for a graph, we are given the empirical profile for rooted neighborhoods of depth $r$ (up to isomorphism) for some $r\geq 1$ and we wish to recover the underlying graph up to isomorphism. When the underlying…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jian Ding , Yiyang Jiang , Heng Ma

We prove the computational intractability of rotating and placing $n$ square tiles into a $1 \times n$ array such that adjacent tiles are compatible--either equal edge colors, as in edge-matching puzzles, or matching tab/pocket shapes, as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Jeffrey Bosboom , Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Adam Hesterberg , Pasin Manurangsi , Anak Yodpinyanee

In a recent paper [6], J. Gaudio and E. Mossel studied the shotgun assembly of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $\mathcal G(n,p_n)$ with $p_n=n^{-\alpha}$, and showed that the graph is reconstructable form its $1$-neighbourhoods if $0<\alpha <…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Kartick Adhikari , Sukrit Chakraborty

We study the complexity of symmetric assembly puzzles: given a collection of simple polygons, can we translate, rotate, and possibly flip them so that their interior-disjoint union is line symmetric? On the negative side, we show that the…

We study coverage processes in which each draw reveals a subset of $[n]$, and the goal is to determine the expected number of draws until all items are seen at least once. A classical example is the Coupon Collector's Problem, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yitzchak Grunbaum , Eitan Yaakobi

Jigsaw percolation is a nonlocal process that iteratively merges connected clusters in a deterministic "puzzle graph" by using connectivity properties of a random "people graph" on the same set of vertices. We presume the Erdos--Renyi…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Janko Gravner , David Sivakoff

Cohn and Umans proposed a framework for developing fast matrix multiplication algorithms based on the embedding computation in certain groups algebras. In subsequent work with Kleinberg and Szegedy, they connected this to the search for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Matthew Anderson , Zongliang Ji , Anthony Yang Xu

Jigsaw puzzle solving, the problem of constructing a coherent whole from a set of non-overlapping unordered visual fragments, is fundamental to numerous applications, and yet most of the literature of the last two decades has focused thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Peleg Harel Ofir Itzhak Shahar , Ohad Ben-Shahar

We present a framework for the design of optimal assembly algorithms for shotgun sequencing under the criterion of complete reconstruction. We derive a lower bound on the read length and the coverage depth required for reconstruction in…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-20 Guy Bresler , Ma'ayan Bresler , David Tse
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