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In the \emph{trace reconstruction problem}, an unknown source string $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ is sent through a probabilistic \emph{deletion channel} which independently deletes each bit with probability $\delta$ and concatenates the surviving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Chin Ho Lee , Rocco A. Servedio , Sandip Sinha

The coded trace reconstruction problem asks to construct a code $C\subset \{0,1\}^n$ such that any $x\in C$ is recoverable from independent outputs ("traces") of $x$ from a binary deletion channel (BDC). We present binary codes of rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joshua Brakensiek , Ray Li , Bruce Spang

Long-term data-driven studies have become indispensable in many areas of science. Often, the data formats, structures and semantics of data change over time, the data sets evolve. Therefore, studies over several decades in particular have…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tanja Auge , Andreas Heuer

In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing trees from traces in the tree edit distance model. Previous work by Davies et al. (2019) analyzed special cases of reconstructing labeled trees. In this work, we significantly expand…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Thomas Maranzatto

Since the advent of modern bioinformatics, the challenging, multifaceted problem of reconstructing phylogenetic history from biological sequences has hatched perennial statistical and algorithmic innovation. Studies of the phylogenetic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Matthew Andres Moreno , Santiago Rodriguez Papa , Emily Dolson

The insertion-deletion channel takes as input a bit string ${\bf x}\in\{0,1\}^{n}$, and outputs a string where bits have been deleted and inserted independently at random. The trace reconstruction problem is to recover $\bf x$ from many…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Nina Holden , Robin Pemantle , Yuval Peres , Alex Zhai

The goal of the trace reconstruction problem is to recover a string $x\in\{0,1\}^n$ given many independent {\em traces} of $x$, where a trace is a subsequence obtained from deleting bits of $x$ independently with some given probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Kuan Cheng , Elena Grigorescu , Xin Li , Madhu Sudan , Minshen Zhu

Trace reconstruction considers the task of recovering an unknown string $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ given a number of independent "traces", i.e., subsequences of $x$ obtained by randomly and independently deleting every symbol of $x$ with some…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Elena Grigorescu , Madhu Sudan , Minshen Zhu

Search is a key service within constraint programming systems, and it demands the restoration of previously accessed states during the exploration of a search tree. Restoration proceeds either bottom-up within the tree to roll back…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Yong Lin , Martin Henz

The deletion channel takes as input a bit string $\mathbf{x} \in \{0,1\}^n$, and deletes each bit independently with probability $q$, yielding a shorter string. The trace reconstruction problem is to recover an unknown string $\mathbf{x}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Yuval Peres , Alex Zhai

The reproduction and replication of research results has become a major issue for a number of scientific disciplines. In computer science and related computational disciplines such as systems biology, the challenges closely revolve around…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Tom Crick , Benjamin A. Hall , Samin Ishtiaq

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

This paper introduces a new solution to DNA storage that integrates all three steps of retrieval, namely clustering, reconstruction, and error correction. DNA-correcting codes are presented as a unique solution to the problem of ensuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Avital Boruchovsky , Daniella Bar-Lev , Eitan Yaakobi

Computational reproducibility is a growing problem that has been extensively studied among computational researchers and within the signal processing and machine learning research community. However, with the changing landscape of signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Joseph Shenouda , Waheed U. Bajwa

The sequence reconstruction problem for insertion/deletion channels has attracted significant attention owing to their applications recently in some emerging data storage systems, such as racetrack memories, DNA-based data storage. Our goal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Van Long Phuoc Pham , Yeow Meng Chee , Kui Cai , Van Khu Vu

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

We consider a pruning of the inhomogeneous continuum random trees, as well as the cut trees that encode the genealogies of the fragmentations that come with the pruning. We propose a new approach to the reconstruction problem, which has…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Nicolas Broutin , Hui He , Minmin Wang

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

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

DNA-based storage is an emerging storage technology that provides high information density and long duration. Due to the physical constraints in the reading and writing processes, error correction in DNA storage poses several interesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Moshe Schwartz , Jehoshua Bruck