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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

We consider the phase retrieval problem, in which the observer wishes to recover a $n$-dimensional real or complex signal $\mathbf{X}^\star$ from the (possibly noisy) observation of $|\mathbf{\Phi} \mathbf{X}^\star|$, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Antoine Maillard , Florent Krzakala , Yue M. Lu , Lenka Zdeborová

Let $f:\{-1,1\}^n$ be a polynomial with at most $s$ non-zero real coefficients. We give an algorithm for exactly reconstructing f given random examples from the uniform distribution on $\{-1,1\}^n$ that runs in time polynomial in $n$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Murat Kocaoglu , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Adam Klivans

In this letter, we consider a problem of reconstructing an unknown discrete signal taking values in a finite alphabet from incomplete linear measurements. The difficulty of this problem is that the computational complexity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Masaaki Nagahara

The reduction of the fragment assembly problem to (variations of) the classical Eulerian trail problem [Pevzner et al., PNAS 2001] has led to remarkable progress in genome assembly. This reduction employs the notion of de Bruijn graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ben Bals , Sebastiaan van Krieken , Solon P. Pissis , Leen Stougie , Hilde Verbeek

This paper considers the problem of inferring the structure of a network from indirect observations. Each observation (a "trace") is the unordered set of nodes which are activated along a path through the network. Since a trace does not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vincent Gripon , Michael Rabbat

We reconstruct a closed denoised curve from an unstructured and highly noisy 2D point cloud. Our proposed method uses a two- pass approach: Previously recovered manifold connectivity is used for ordering noisy samples along this manifold…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer

Motivated by studies of data retrieval in polymer-based storage systems, we consider the problem of reconstructing a multiset of binary strings that have the same length and the same weight from the compositions of their prefixes and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yaoyu Yang , Zitan Chen

The problem of reconstructing a sequence from the set of its length-$k$ substrings has received considerable attention due to its various applications in genomics. We study an uncoded version of this problem where multiple random sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kel Levick , Ilan Shomorony

The problem of learning structural equation models (SEMs) from data is a fundamental problem in causal inference. We develop a new algorithm --- which is computationally and statistically efficient and works in the high-dimensional regime…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Asish Ghoshal , Jean Honorio

Stroke order and velocity are helpful features in the fields of signature verification, handwriting recognition, and handwriting synthesis. Recovering these features from offline handwritten text is a challenging and well-studied problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Taylor Archibald , Mason Poggemann , Aaron Chan , Tony Martinez

Optimal reconstruction of a source sequence from multiple noisy traces corrupted by random insertions, deletions, and substitutions typically requires joint processing of all traces, leading to computational complexity that grows…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aria Nouri

We consider the phase retrieval problem of reconstructing a $n$-dimensional real or complex signal $\mathbf{X}^{\star}$ from $m$ (possibly noisy) observations $Y_\mu = | \sum_{i=1}^n \Phi_{\mu i} X^{\star}_i/\sqrt{n}|$, for a large class of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Antoine Maillard , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Synthesis from examples enables non-expert users to generate programs by specifying examples of their behavior. A domain-specific form of such synthesis has been recently deployed in a widely used spreadsheet software product. In this paper…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Mikaël Mayer , Jad Hamza , Viktor Kuncak

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a unifying representation for probabilistic models that support tractable inference. Numerous applications of PCs like controllable text generation depend on the ability to efficiently multiply two circuits.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Honghua Zhang , Benjie Wang , Marcelo Arenas , Guy Van den Broeck

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

This paper concerns the problem of recovering an unknown but structured signal $x \in R^n$ from $m$ quadratic measurements of the form $y_r=|<a_r,x>|^2$ for $r=1,2,...,m$. We focus on the under-determined setting where the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

We study the classical problem of recovering a multidimensional source signal from observations of nonlinear mixtures of this signal. We show that this recovery is possible (up to a permutation and monotone scaling of the source's original…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Alexander Schell , Harald Oberhauser

Theoretical inverse problems are often studied in an ideal infinite-dimensional setting. The well-posedness theory provides a unique reconstruction of the parameter function, when an infinite amount of data is given. Through the lens of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Ruhui Jin , Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Samuel Stechmann

This paper studies the problem of reconstructing binary matrices that are only accessible through few evaluations of their discrete X-rays. Such question is prominently motivated by the demand in material science for developing a tool for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alberto Del Lungo , Andrea Frosini , Maurice Nivat , Laurent Vuillon