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Reconstructing continuous signals from a small number of discrete samples is a fundamental problem across science and engineering. In practice, we are often interested in signals with 'simple' Fourier structure, such as bandlimited,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

We consider the problem of coding for the substring channel, in which information strings are observed only through their (multisets of) substrings. Due to existing DNA sequencing techniques and applications in DNA-based storage systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Nikita Polyanskii

In the problem of blind reconstruction of channel codes, the receiver does not have the knowledge of the channel code used at the transmitter and the aim is to identify this unknown channel code corresponding to the given received sequence.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Arti D. Yardi , Saravanan Vijayakumaran

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 generalize the problem of reconstructing strings from their substring compositions first introduced by Acharya et al. in 2015 motivated by polymer-based advanced data storage systems utilizing mass spectrometry. Namely, we see strings as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Antoine Dailly , Tuomo Lehtilä

This paper investigates the number of quantum queries made to solve the problem of reconstructing an unknown string from its substrings in a certain query model. More concretely, the goal of the problem is to identify an unknown string $S$…

Motivated by polymer-based data-storage platforms that use chains of binary synthetic polymers as the recording media and read the content via tandem mass spectrometers, we propose a new family of codes that allows for unique string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

String diagrams are a powerful and intuitive graphical syntax, originated in the study of symmetric monoidal categories. In the last few years, they have found application in the modelling of various computational structures, in fields as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Filippo Bonchi , Fabio Gadducci , Aleks Kissinger , Pawel Sobocinski , Fabio Zanasi

We address the problem of super-resolution frequency recovery using prior knowledge of the structure of a spectrally sparse, undersampled signal. In many applications of interest, some structure information about the signal spectrum is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-08 Kumar Vijay Mishra , Myung Cho , Anton Kruger , Weiyu Xu

We consider signal reconstruction from the norms of subspace components generalizing standard phase retrieval problems. In the deterministic setting, a closed reconstruction formula is derived when the subspaces satisfy certain cubature…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Christine Bachoc , Martin Ehler

We address the problem of reconstructing a multi-band signal from its sub-Nyquist point-wise samples. To date, all reconstruction methods proposed for this class of signals assumed knowledge of the band locations. In this paper, we develop…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-09-12 Moshe Mishali , Yonina C. Eldar

The well-known trace reconstruction problem is the problem of inferring an unknown source string $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ from independent "traces", i.e. copies of $x$ that have been corrupted by a $\delta$-deletion channel which independently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Chin Ho Lee , Rocco A. Servedio , Sandip Sinha

In numerous graph signal processing applications, data is often missing for a variety of reasons, and predicting the missing data is essential. In this paper, we consider data on graphs modeled as bandlimited graph signals. Predicting or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Ajinkya Jayawant , Antonio Ortega

Determining whether an unordered collection of overlapping substrings (called shingles) can be uniquely decoded into a consistent string is a problem that lies within the foundation of a broad assortment of disciplines ranging from…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Aryeh Kontorovich , Ari Trachtenberg

Reconstructing complex networks from measurable data is a fundamental problem for understanding and controlling collective dynamics of complex networked systems. However, a significant challenge arises when we attempt to decode structural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-20 Xiao Han , Zhesi Shen , Wen-Xu Wang , Zengru Di

Trace reconstruction is the problem of learning an unknown string $x$ from independent traces of $x$, where traces are generated by independently deleting each bit of $x$ with some deletion probability $q$. In this paper, we initiate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Shyam Narayanan , Michael Ren

We introduce the following natural generalization of trace reconstruction, parameterized by a deletion probability $\delta \in (0,1)$ and length $n$: There is a length $n$ string of probabilities, $S=p_1,\ldots,p_n,$ and each "trace" is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joey Rivkin , Gregory Valiant , Paul Valiant

We propose a list-decoding scheme for reconstruction codes in the context of uniform-tandem-duplication noise, which can be viewed as an application of the associative memory model to this setting. We find the uncertainty associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Moshe Schwartz

New schemes to recover signals defined in the nodes of a graph are proposed. Our focus is on reconstructing bandlimited graph signals, which are signals that admit a sparse representation in a frequency domain related to the structure of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

Line spectral estimation theory aims to estimate the off-the-grid spectral components of a time signal with optimal precision. Recent results have shown that it is possible to recover signals having sparse line spectra from few temporal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Wei Dai