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Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

We study two fundamental problems in communication, Document Exchange (DE) and Error Correcting Code (ECC). In the first problem, two parties hold two strings, and one party tries to learn the other party's string through communication. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Kuan Cheng , Xin Li

We introduce a model of quantum insertion-deletion (insdel) channels. Insdel channels are meant to represent, for example, synchronization errors arising in data transmission. In the classical setting, they represent a strict generalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-07 Janet Leahy , Dave Touchette , Penghui Yao

DNA storage systems face significant challenges, including insertion, deletion, and substitution (IDS) errors. Therefore, designing effective synchronization codes, i.e., codes capable of correcting IDS errors, is essential for DNA storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Javad Haghighat , Tolga M. Duman

We consider the question of interactive communication, in which two remote parties perform a computation while their communication channel is (adversarially) noisy. We extend here the discussion into a more general and stronger class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Mark Braverman , Ran Gelles , Jieming Mao , Rafail Ostrovsky

Data synchronization is a fundamental problem with applications in diverse fields such as cloud storage, genomics, and distributed systems. This paper addresses the challenge of synchronizing two files, one of which is a subsequence of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Haolun , Ni , Lev Tauz , Ryan Gabrys , Lara Dolecek

A binary string transmitted via a memoryless i.i.d. deletion channel is received as a subsequence of the original input. From this, one obtains a posterior distribution on the channel input, corresponding to a set of candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Arash Atashpendar , Marc Beunardeau , Aisling Connolly , Rémi Géraud , David Mestel , A. W. Roscoe , Peter Y. A. Ryan

We consider the problem of constructing codes that can correct $\delta$ deletions occurring in an arbitrary binary string of length $n$ bits. Varshamov-Tenengolts (VT) codes, dating back to 1965, are zero-error single deletion $(\delta=1)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Serge Kas Hanna , Salim El Rouayheb

Correcting insertions/deletions as well as substitution errors simultaneously plays an important role in DNA-based storage systems as well as in classical communications. This paper deals with the fundamental task of constructing codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ilia Smagloy , Lorenz Welter , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

This paper presents a semantic-enhanced receiver framework for transmitting natural language sentences over noisy wireless channels using multiple short block codes. After ASCII encoding, the sentence is divided into segments, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Consider two or more strings $\mathbf{x}^1,\mathbf{x}^2,\ldots,$ that are concatenated to form $\mathbf{x}=\langle \mathbf{x}^1,\mathbf{x}^2,\ldots \rangle$. Suppose that up to $\delta$ deletions occur in each of the concatenated strings.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Serge Kas Hanna

This paper considers insertion and deletion channels with the additional assumption that the channel input sequence is implicitly divided into segments such that at most one edit can occur within a segment. No segment markers are available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Mahed Abroshan , Ramji Venkataramanan , Albert Guillen i Fabregas

In this work, we study the performance of Reed--Solomon codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (insdel) errors. We prove that over fields of size $n^{O(k)}$ there are $[n,k]$ Reed-Solomon codes that can decode from $n-2k+1$ insdel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roni Con , Amir Shpilka , Itzhak Tamo

The performance of Reed--Solomon codes (RS codes, for short) in the presence of insertion and deletion errors has attracted growing attention in recent literature. In this work, we further study this intriguing mathematical problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Peter Beelen , Roni Con , Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Eitan Yaakobi

This paper studies the problem of constructing codes correcting deletions in arrays. Under this model, it is assumed that an $n\times n$ array can experience deletions of rows and columns. These deletion errors are referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rawad Bitar , Lorenz Welter , Ilia Smagloy , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Traditional error-correcting codes (ECCs) assume a fixed message length, but many scenarios involve ongoing or indefinite transmissions where the message length is not known in advance. For example, when streaming a video, the user should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Klim Efremenko , Or Zamir

We introduce fast-decodable indexing schemes for edit distance which can be used to speed up edit distance computations to near-linear time if one of the strings is indexed by an indexing string $I$. In particular, for every length $n$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Bernhard Haeupler , Aviad Rubinstein , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

We consider the problem of constructing codes that can correct $\delta$ deletions occurring in an arbitrary binary string of length $n$ bits. Varshamov-Tenengolts (VT) codes can correct all possible single deletions $(\delta=1)$ with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Serge Kas Hanna , Salim El Rouayheb

In most error correction coding (ECC) frameworks, the typical error metric is the bit error rate (BER) which measures the number of bit errors. For this metric, the positions of the bits are not relevant to the decoding, and in many noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Chai Wah Wu

Constant dimension codes (CDCs) are essential for error correction in random network coding. A fundamental problem of CDCs is to determine their maximal possible size for given parameters. Inserting construction and multilevel construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Han Li , Fang-Wei Fu