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A rateless code encodes a finite length information word into an infinitely long codeword such that longer prefixes of the codeword can tolerate a larger fraction of errors. A rateless code achieves capacity for a family of channels if, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Benny Applebaum , Liron David , Guy Even

Codes in the Damerau--Levenshtein metric have been extensively studied recently owing to their applications in DNA-based data storage. In particular, Gabrys, Yaakobi, and Milenkovic (2017) designed a length-$n$ code correcting a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Shuche Wang , Van Khu Vu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this paper, we study the surprising impact that truncating text embeddings has on downstream performance. We consistently observe across 6 state-of-the-art text encoders and 26 downstream tasks, that randomly removing up to 50% of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sotaro Takeshita , Yurina Takeshita , Daniel Ruffinelli , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Consider two remote nodes (encoder and decoder), each with a binary sequence. The encoder's sequence $X$ differs from the decoder's sequence $Y$ by a small number of edits (deletions and insertions). The goal is to construct a message $M$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mahed Abroshan , Ramji Venkataramanan , Albert Guillen i Fabregas

In this article we introduce the operations of insertion and deletion working in a random-context and semi-conditional manner. We show that the conditional use of rules strictly increase the computational power. In the case of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Sergiu Ivanov , Sergey Verlan

The Reed-Muller (RM) code encoding $n$-variate degree-$d$ polynomials over ${\mathbb F}_q$ for $d < q$, with its evaluation on ${\mathbb F}_q^n$, has relative distance $1-d/q$ and can be list decoded from a $1-O(\sqrt{d/q})$ fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Lingfei Jin , Chaoping Xing

We study data structures in the presence of adversarial noise. We want to encode a given object in a succinct data structure that enables us to efficiently answer specific queries about the object, even if the data structure has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-01 Ronald de Wolf

Given a channel with length-$n$ inputs and outputs over the alphabet $\{0,1,\ldots,q-1\}$, and of which a fraction $\varrho \in (0,1-1/q)$ of symbols can be arbitrarily corrupted by an adversary, a fundamental problem is that of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Pranav Joshi , Daniel McMorrow , Yihan Zhang , Amitalok J. Budkuley , Sidharth Jaggi

Polar codes are capacity achieving error correcting codes that can be decoded through the successive-cancellation algorithm. To improve its error-correction performance, a list-based version called successive-cancellation list (SCL) has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

Theoretical analysis has long indicated that feedback improves the error exponent but not the capacity of single-user memoryless channels. Recently Polyanskiy et al. studied the benefit of variable-length feedback with termination (VLFT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Tsung-Yi Chen , Adam R. Williamson , Richard D. Wesel

Erasure list decoding was introduced to correct a larger number of erasures with output of a list of possible candidates. In the present paper, we consider both random linear codes and algebraic geometry codes for list decoding erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Yang Ding , Lingfei Jin , Chaoping Xing

A new family of codes, called clustering-correcting codes, is presented in this paper. This family of codes is motivated by the special structure of data that is stored in DNA-based storage systems. The data stored in these systems has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Tal Shinkar , Eitan Yaakobi , Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Synchronization codes are frequently used in numerical data transmission and storage. Compression by Substring Enumeration (CSE) is a new lossless compression scheme that has turned into a new and unusual application for synchronization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Dany Vohl , Claude-Guy Quimper , Danny Dubé

In the present paper, we consider list decoding for both random rank metric codes and random linear rank metric codes. Firstly, we show that, for arbitrary $0<R<1$ and $\epsilon>0$ ($\epsilon$ and $R$ are independent), if $0<\frac{n}{m}\leq…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Yang Ding

We study the problems of finding a shortest synchronizing word and its length for a given prefix code. This is done in two different settings: when the code is defined by an arbitrary decoder recognizing its star and when the code is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Andrew Ryzhikov , Marek Szykuła

In the field of interactive coding, two or more parties wish to carry out a distributed computation over a communication network that may be noisy. The ultimate goal is to develop efficient coding schemes that can tolerate a high level of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ran Gelles , Yael T. Kalai , Govind Ramnarayan

The present paper mainly studies limits and constructions of insertion and deletion (insdel for short) codes. The paper can be divided into two parts. The first part focuses on various bounds, while the second part concentrates on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shu Liu , Chaoping Xing

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

This paper studies codes that correct bursts of deletions. Namely, a code will be called a $b$-burst-deletion-correcting code if it can correct a deletion of any $b$ consecutive bits. While the lower bound on the redundancy of such codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Clayton Schoeny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm for robust regression in the list-decodable setting where an adversary can corrupt a greater than $1/2$ fraction of examples. For any $\alpha < 1$, our algorithm takes as input a sample…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Sushrut Karmalkar , Adam R. Klivans , Pravesh K. Kothari