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Tree trace reconstruction aims to learn the binary node labels of a tree, given independent samples of the tree passed through an appropriately defined deletion channel. In recent work, Davies, R\'acz, and Rashtchian used combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Tatiana Brailovskaya , Miklós Z. Rácz

This work studies problems in data reconstruction, an important area with numerous applications. In particular, we examine the reconstruction of binary and non-binary sequences from synchronization (insertion/deletion-correcting) codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Frederic Sala , Ryan Gabrys , Clayton Schoeny , Lara Dolecek

Suppose that a solution $\widetilde{\mathbf{x}}$ to an underdetermined linear system $\mathbf{b} = \mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}$ is given. $\widetilde{\mathbf{x}}$ is approximately sparse meaning that it has a few large components compared to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Cristian R. Rojas , Magnus Jansson , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh

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

Mean-based reconstruction is a fundamental, natural approach to worst-case trace reconstruction over channels with synchronization errors. It is known that $\exp(O(n^{1/3}))$ traces are necessary and sufficient for mean-based worst-case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Joseph Downs , João Ribeiro , Alexandra Veliche

In a {\em locally recoverable} or {\em repairable} code, any symbol of a codeword can be recovered by reading only a small (constant) number of other symbols. The notion of local recoverability is important in the area of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Viveck Cadambe , Arya Mazumdar

A reconstruction problem of words from scattered factors asks for the minimal information, like multisets of scattered factors of a given length or the number of occurrences of scattered factors from a given set, necessary to uniquely…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pamela Fleischmann , Marie Lejeune , Florin Manea , Dirk Nowotka , Michel Rigo

We consider the problem of reconstructing an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices given multiple random noisy subgraphs or "traces". Specifically, a trace is generated by sampling each vertex with probability $p_v$, then taking the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Andrew McGregor , Rik Sengupta

It is well understood that if one is given a set $X \subset [0,1]$ of $n$ independent uniformly distributed random variables, then $$ \sup_{0 \leq x \leq 1} \left| \frac{\# X \cap [0,x]}{\# X} - x \right| \lesssim \frac{\sqrt{\log{n}}}{…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Dmitriy Bilyk , Stefan Steinerberger

The sequence reconstruction problem involves a model where a sequence is transmitted over several identical channels. This model investigates the minimum number of channels required for the unique reconstruction of the transmitted sequence.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhaojun Lan , Yubo Sun , Wenjun Yu , Gennian Ge

The sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a communication scenario where the sender transmits a codeword from some codebook and the receiver obtains multiple noisy reads of the codeword. Motivated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Johan Chrisnata , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

The problem of reconstructing strings from substring information has found many applications due to its importance in genomic data sequencing and DNA- and polymer-based data storage. One practically important and challenging paradigm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Ryan Gabrys , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Olgica Milenkovic

Levenshtein first introduced the sequence reconstruction problem in $2001$. In the realm of combinatorics, the sequence reconstruction problem is equivalent to determining the value of $N(n,d,t)$, which represents the maximum size of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Xiang Wang , Weijun Fang , Han Li , Fang-Wei Fu

The sequence reconstruction problem was proposed by Levenshtein in 2001. In this model, a sequence from a code is transmitted over several channels, and the decoder receives the distinct outputs from each channel. The main problem is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xiang Wang , Han Li , Fang-Wei Fu

The problem of reconstructing strings from their substring spectra has a long history and in its most simple incarnation asks for determining under which conditions the spectrum uniquely determines the string. We study the problem of coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

The Levenshtein sequence reconstruction problem studies the reconstruction of a transmitted sequence from multiple erroneous copies of it. A fundamental question in this field is to determine the minimum number of erroneous copies required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Tony Q. S. Quek

The problem of string reconstruction from substring information has found many applications due to its relevance in DNA- and polymer-based data storage. One practically important and challenging paradigm requires reconstructing mixtures of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ryan Gabrys , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Olgica Milenkovic

The problem called "String reconstruction from substrings" is a mathematical model of sequencing by hybridization that plays an important role in DNA sequencing. In this problem, we are given a blackbox oracle holding an unknown string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Kazuo Iwama , Junichi Teruyama , Shuntaro Tsuyama

The reconstruction problem for permutations on $n$ elements from their erroneous patterns which are distorted by transpositions is presented in this paper. It is shown that for any $n \geq 3$ an unknown permutation is uniquely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elena Konstantinova , Vladimir Levenshtein , Johannes Siemons

In the paper, the Levenshtein's sequence reconstruction problem is considered in the case where at most $t$ substitution errors occur in each of the $N$ channels and the decoder outputs a list of length $\mathcal{L}$. Moreover, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Ville Junnila , Tero Laihonen , Tuomo Lehtilä