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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

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

In the beautifully simple-to-state problem of trace reconstruction, the goal is to reconstruct an unknown binary string $x$ given random "traces" of $x$ where each trace is generated by deleting each coordinate of $x$ independently with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Arya Mazumdar , Andrew McGregor , Soumyabrata Pal

In the trace reconstruction problem, one attempts to reconstruct a fixed but unknown string $x$ of length $n$ from a given number of traces $\tilde{x}$ drawn iid from the application of a noisy process (such as the deletion channel) to $x$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ittai Rubinstein

Motivated by average-case trace reconstruction and coding for portable DNA-based storage systems, we initiate the study of \emph{coded trace reconstruction}, the design and analysis of high-rate efficiently encodable codes that can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic , João Ribeiro

The trace reconstruction problem studies the number of noisy samples needed to recover an unknown string $\boldsymbol{x}\in\{0,1\}^n$ with high probability, where the samples are independently obtained by passing $\boldsymbol{x}$ through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jin Sima , Jehoshua Bruck

The {\em insertion-deletion channel} takes as input a binary string $x \in\{0, 1\}^n$, and outputs a string $\widetilde{x}$ where some of the bits have been deleted and others inserted independently at random. In the {\em trace…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Ittai Rubinstein

The ''trace reconstruction'' problem asks, given an unknown binary string $x$ and a channel that repeatedly returns ''traces'' of $x$ with each bit randomly deleted with some probability $p$, how many traces are needed to recover $x$? There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Arnav Burudgunte , Paul Valiant , Hongao Wang

In the trace reconstruction problem, an unknown bit string $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ is observed through the deletion channel, which deletes each bit of $x$ with some constant probability $q$, yielding a contracted string $\widetilde{x}$. How many…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Fedor Nazarov , Yuval Peres

A \emph{trace} of a sequence is generated by deleting each bit of the sequence independently with a fixed probability. The well-studied \emph{trace reconstruction} problem asks how many traces are required to reconstruct an unknown binary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Wenjie Zhong , Xiande Zhang

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

The goal of trace reconstruction is to reconstruct an unknown $n$-bit string $x$ given only independent random traces of $x$, where a random trace of $x$ is obtained by passing $x$ through a deletion channel. A Statistical Query (SQ)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Chin Ho Lee , Rocco A. Servedio

In the trace reconstruction problem, one observes the output of passing a binary string $s \in \{0,1\}^n$ through a deletion channel $T$ times and wishes to recover $s$ from the resulting $T$ "traces." Most of the literature has focused on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kayvon Mazooji , Ilan Shomorony

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 both unique string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

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

Motivated by mass-spectrometry protein sequencing, we consider a simply-stated problem of reconstructing a string from the multiset of its substring compositions. We show that all strings of length 7, one less than a prime, or one less than…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Jayadev Acharya , Hirakendu Das , Olgica Milenkovic , Alon Orlitsky , Shengjun Pan

We study the problem of learning a node-labeled tree given independent traces from an appropriately defined deletion channel. This problem, tree trace reconstruction, generalizes string trace reconstruction, which corresponds to the tree…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Sami Davies , Miklos Z. Racz , Cyrus Rashtchian

We give a polynomial time algorithm for the lossy population recovery problem. In this problem, the goal is to approximately learn an unknown distribution on binary strings of length $n$ from lossy samples: for some parameter $\mu$ each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Ankur Moitra , Michael Saks

We study the trace reconstruction problem for spider graphs. Let $n$ be the number of nodes of a spider and $d$ be the length of each leg, and suppose that we are given independent traces of the spider from a deletion channel in which each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Alec Sun , William Yue

We consider the problem of binary string reconstruction from the multiset of its substring compositions, i.e., referred to as the substring composition multiset, first introduced and studied by Acharya et al. We introduce a new algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Utkarsh Gupta , Hessam Mahdavifar