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The problem of reconstructing a sequence from the set of its length-$k$ substrings has received considerable attention due to its various applications in genomics. We study an uncoded version of this problem where multiple random sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kel Levick , Ilan Shomorony

Storage codes are used to ensure reliable storage of data in distributed systems. Here we consider functional repair codes, where individual storage nodes that fail may be repaired efficiently and the ability to recover original data and to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Siaw-Lynn Ng , Maura B. Paterson

The design of communication systems dedicated to machine learning tasks is one key aspect of goal-oriented communications. In this framework, this article investigates the interplay between data reconstruction and learning from the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jiahui Wei , Elsa Dupraz , Philippe Mary

The rate region of the $(5,4,4)$ exact-repair regenerating codes is provided. The outer bound is obtained through extension of the computational approach developed in an earlier work, and this region is indeed achievable using the canonical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Chao Tian

$\epsilon$-Minimum Storage Regenerating ($\epsilon$-MSR) codes form a special class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading slighly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman

The maximal coding rate reduction (MCR$^2$) objective for learning structured and compact deep representations is drawing increasing attention, especially after its recent usage in the derivation of fully explainable and highly effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng Wang , Huikang Liu , Druv Pai , Yaodong Yu , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu , Yi Ma

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage, but naively repairing a single failure in an $(n,k)$ MDS code requires downloading the full contents of $k$ surviving nodes. Minimum storage regenerating (MSR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu

The problem of string reconstruction based on its substrings spectrum has received significant attention recently due to its applicability to DNA data storage and sequencing. In contrast to previous works, we consider in this paper a setup…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

In the context of distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes have become important. In this paper we focus on codes that allow for multi-erasure pattern decoding with low computational effort. Different optimality requirements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Margreta Kuijper , Julia Lieb , Diego Napp

We consider the problem of multiple-node repair in distributed storage systems under the cooperative model, where the repair bandwidth includes the amount of data exchanged between any two different storage nodes. Recently, explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Min Ye

Clustered distributed storage models real data centers where intra- and cross-cluster repair bandwidths are different. In this paper, exact-repair minimum-storage-regenerating (MSR) codes achieving capacity of clustered distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jy-yong Sohn , Beongjun Choi , Jaekyun Moon

This paper presents an explicit construction for an $((n=2qt,k=2q(t-1),d=n-(q+1)), (\alpha = q(2q)^{t-1},\beta = \frac{\alpha}{q}))$ regenerating code (RGC) over a field $\mathbb{F}_Q$ having rate $\geq \frac{t-2}{t}$. The RGC code can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Birenjith Sasidharan , Myna Vajha , P. Vijay Kumar

In large scale distributed storage systems (DSS) deployed in cloud computing, correlated failures resulting in simultaneous failure (or, unavailability) of blocks of nodes are common. In such scenarios, the stored data or a content of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Gokhan Calis , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

Erasure correcting codes are widely used to ensure data persistence in distributed storage systems. This paper addresses the simultaneous repair of multiple failures in such codes. We go beyond existing work (i.e., regenerating codes by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Gilles Straub , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

We investigate the service-rate region (SRR) of distributed storage systems that employ linear codes. We focus on systems where each server stores one code symbol, and a user recovers a data symbol by accessing any of its recovery groups,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

An $(n, M)$ vector code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \mathbb{F}^n$ is a collection of $M$ codewords where $n$ elements (from the field $\mathbb{F}$) in each of the codewords are referred to as code blocks. Assuming that $\mathbb{F} \cong…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ankit Singh Rawat

Maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are a class of erasure codes that are widely adopted to enhance the reliability of distributed storage systems (DSS). In (n, k) MDS coded DSS, the original data are stored into n distributed nodes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sheng Guan , Haibin Kan , Xin Wang

In a distributed storage systems (DSS) with $k$ systematic nodes, robustness against node failure is commonly provided by storing redundancy in a number of other nodes and performing repair mechanism to reproduce the content of the failed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Soheil Mohajer , Ashish Khisti

A construction of expander codes is presented with the following three properties: (i) the codes lie close to the Singleton bound, (ii) they can be encoded in time complexity that is linear in their code length, and (iii) they have a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ron M. Roth , Vitaly Skachek

We study the exact and optimal repair of multiple failures in codes for distributed storage. More particularly, we provide an explicit construction of exact minimum bandwidth coordinated regenerating codes (MBCR) for n=d+t,k,d >= k,t >= 1.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Steve Jiekak , Nicolas Le Scouarnec