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The coverage depth problem in DNA data storage is about minimizing the expected number of reads until all data is recovered. When they exist, MDS codes offer the best performance in this context. This paper focuses on the scenario where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Matteo Bertuzzo , Alberto Ravagnani , Eitan Yaakobi

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

We introduce derivation depth-a computable metric of the reasoning effort needed to answer a query based on a given set of premises. We model information as a two-layered structure linking abstract knowledge with physical carriers, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jianfeng Xu

The idea behind universal coating is to have a thin layer of a specific substance covering an object of any shape so that one can measure a certain condition (like temperature or cracks) at any spot on the surface of the object without…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Zahra Derakhshandeh , Robert Gmyr , Andrea W. Richa , Christian Scheideler , Thim Strothmann

In this paper we present a new bound obtained with the probabilistic method for the solution of the Set Covering problem with unit costs. The bound is valid for problems of fixed dimension, thus extending previous similar asymptotic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Giovanni Felici , Sokol Ndreca , Aldo Procacci , Benedetto Scoppola

We introduce a new family of binary linear codes suitable for steganographic matrix embedding. The main characteristic of the codes is the staircase random block structure of the generator matrix. We propose an efficient list decoding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Simona Samardjiska , Danilo Gligoroski

We present a novel technique for encoding and decoding constant weight binary codes that uses a geometric interpretation of the codebook. Our technique is based on embedding the codebook in a Euclidean space of dimension equal to the weight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Chao Tian , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , N. J. A. Sloane

This paper proposes a generic formulation that significantly expedites the training and deployment of image classification models, particularly under the scenarios of many image categories and high feature dimensions. As a defining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Fumin Shen , Yadong Mu , Wei Liu , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Studying the generalized Hamming weights of linear codes is a significant research area within coding theory, as it provides valuable structural information about the codes and plays a crucial role in determining their performance in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Wei Lu , Qingyao Wang , Xiaoqiang Wang , Dabin Zheng

Network coding is studied when an adversary controls a subset of nodes in the network of limited quantity but unknown location. This problem is shown to be more difficult than when the adversary controls a given number of edges in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-15 Oliver Kosut , Lang Tong , David Tse

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

This work constructs codes that are efficiently decodable from a constant fraction of \emph{worst-case} insertion and deletion errors in three parameter settings: (i) Binary codes with rate approaching 1; (ii) Codes with constant rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li

Neural codes serve as a language for neurons in the brain. Convex codes, which arise from the pattern of intersections of convex sets in Euclidean space, are of particular relevance to neuroscience. Not every code is convex, however, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Joshua Cruz , Chad Giusti , Vladimir Itskov , Bill Kronholm

We address the problem of converting large-scale high-dimensional image data into binary codes so that approximate nearest-neighbor search over them can be efficiently performed. Different from most of the existing unsupervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Tsung-Yu Lin , Tsung-Wei Ke , Tyng-Luh Liu

A new inner bound on the capacity region of a general index coding problem is established. Unlike most existing bounds that are based on graph theoretic or algebraic tools, the bound is built on a random coding scheme and optimal decoding,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Bernd Bandemer , Young-Han Kim , Eren Sasoglu , Lele Wang

This paper presents encoding and decoding algorithms for several families of optimal rank metric codes whose codes are in restricted forms of symmetric, alternating and Hermitian matrices. First, we show the evaluation encoding is the right…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wrya K. Kadir , Chunlei Li , Ferdinando Zullo

A basic problem in constant dimension subspace coding is to determine the maximal possible size ${\bf A}_q(n,d,k)$ of a set of $k$-dimensional subspaces in ${\bf F}_q^n$ such that the subspace distance satisfies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Huimin Lao , Hao Chen , Jian Weng , Xiaoqing Tan

This paper concerns non-overlapping codes, block codes motivated by synchronisation and DNA-based storage applications. Most existing constructions of these codes do not account for the restrictions posed by the physical properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Lidija Stanovnik , Miha Moškon , Miha Mraz

We consider the covering of a ball in certain normed spaces by its congruent subsets and show that if the finite number of sets is not greater than the dimensionality of the space, then the centre of the ball either belongs to the interior…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Sergij V. Goncharov

In this study, a novel coding scheme called highdensity coding based on high-density codebooks using a genetic local search algorithm is proposed. The high-density codebook maximizes the energy transfer capability by maximizing the ratio of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Dongheon Lee , Gyuyeol Kong , Jang-Won Lee , Sooyong Choi