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A tandem duplication denotes the process of inserting a copy of a segment of DNA adjacent to its original position. More formally, a tandem duplication can be thought of as an operation that converts a string $S = AXB$ into a string $T =…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ferdinando Cicalese , Nicolò Pilati

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

Non-binary codes correcting multiple deletions have recently attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we focus on multiplicity-free codes, a family of non-binary codes where all symbols are distinct. Our main contribution is a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Michael Schaller , Beatrice Toesca , Van Khu Vu

This paper examines linear binary codes capable of correcting one or more errors. For the single-error-correcting case, it is shown that the Hamming bound is achieved by a constructive method, and an exact expression for the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Timofei Izhitskii

We improve Levenshtein's upper bound for the cardinality of a code of length four that is capable of correcting single deletions over an alphabet of even size. We also illustrate that the new upper bound is sharp. Furthermore we construct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Hyun Kwang Kim , Joon Yop Lee , Dong Yeol Oh

We prove that certain classical cyclic redundancy check codes can be used for classical error correction and not just classical error detection. We extend the idea of classical cyclic redundancy check codes to quantum cyclic redundancy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Simeon Ball , Ricard Vilar

Tandem duplication is the process of inserting a copy of a segment of DNA adjacent to the original position. Motivated by applications that store data in living organisms, Jain et al. (2017) proposed the study of codes that correct tandem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Yeow Meng Chee , Johan Chrisnata , Han Mao Kiah , Tuan Thanh Nguyen

Batch codes are a useful notion of locality for error correcting codes, originally introduced in the context of distributed storage and cryptography. Many constructions of batch codes have been given, but few lower bound (limitation)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ray Li , Mary Wootters

In this work, we investigate the problem of constructing codes capable of correcting two deletions. In particular, we construct a code that requires redundancy approximately 8 log n + O(log log n) bits of redundancy, where n is the length…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Ryan Gabrys , Frederic Sala

This paper studies the cardinality of codes correcting insertions and deletions. We give improved upper and lower bounds on code size. Our upper bound is obtained by utilizing the asymmetric property of list decoding for insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kenji Yasunaga

This paper investigates the problem of correcting multiple criss-cross insertions and deletions in arrays. More precisely, we study the unique recovery of $n \times n$ arrays affected by $t$-criss-cross deletions defined as any combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lorenz Welter , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Permutation codes and multi-permutation codes have been widely considered due to their various applications, especially in flash memory. In this paper, we consider permutation codes and multi-permutation codes against a burst of stable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yubo Sun , Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

Tandem duplication is an evolutionary process whereby a segment of DNA is replicated and proximally inserted. The different configurations that can arise from this process give rise to some interesting combinatorial questions. Firstly, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-25 L Penso-Dolfin , CD Greenman

The inherent uncertainty of communication channels implies that any coding scheme has a non-zero probability of failing to correct errors, making retransmission mechanisms essential. To ensure message reliability and integrity, a dual-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Chaofeng Guan , Gaojun Luo , Lan Luo , Yangyang Fei , Hong Wang

This paper addresses fundamental challenges in two-dimensional error correction by constructing optimal codes for \emph{criss-cross deletions}. We consider an $ n \times n $ array $\boldsymbol{X}$ over a $ q $-ary alphabet $\Sigma_q := \{0,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

We investigate the structure and reconstruction complexity of Manacher arrays. First, we establish a combinatorial lower bound, proving that the number of rooted tandem repeat trees with $n+1$ genes exceeds the number of distinct Manacher…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Michael Itzhaki

Reconstruction codes are generalizations of error-correcting codes that can correct errors by a given number of noisy reads. The study of such codes was initiated by Levenshtein in 2001 and developed recently due to applications in modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zuo Ye , Xin Liu , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

We are concerned with linear redundancy storage schemes regarding their ability to provide concurrent (local) recovery of multiple data objects. This paper initiates a study of such systems within the classical coding theory. We show how we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Gianira N. Alfarano , Alberto Ravagnani , Emina Soljanin

We consider analog error-correcting codes (analog ECCs) that are designed to correct/detect outlying errors arising in analog implementations of vector-matrix multiplication. The error-correction/detection capability of an analog ECC can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wentu Song , Kui Cai

Function-correcting codes are a class of codes designed to protect the function evaluation of a message against errors whose key advantage is the reduced redundancy. In this paper, we extend function-correcting codes from binary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qingfeng Xia , Hongwei Liu , Bocong Chen