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Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

This paper studies the problem of constructing codes correcting deletions in arrays. Under this model, it is assumed that an $n\times n$ array can experience deletions of rows and columns. These deletion errors are referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rawad Bitar , Lorenz Welter , Ilia Smagloy , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Codes in the Damerau--Levenshtein metric have been extensively studied recently owing to their applications in DNA-based data storage. In particular, Gabrys, Yaakobi, and Milenkovic (2017) designed a length-$n$ code correcting a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Shuche Wang , Van Khu Vu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Due to its high data density and longevity, DNA is considered a promising medium for satisfying ever-increasing data storage needs. However, the diversity of errors that occur in DNA sequences makes efficient error-correction a challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yuanyuan Tang , Farzad Farnoud

We consider the problem of correcting insertion and deletion errors in the $d$-dimensional space. This problem is well understood for vectors (one-dimensional space) and was recently studied for arrays (two-dimensional space). For vectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Evagoras Stylianou , Lorenz Welter , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

In order to achieve fault tolerance, highly reliable system often require the ability to detect errors as soon as they occur and prevent the speared of erroneous information throughout the system. Thus, the need for codes capable of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Muzhir Al-Ani , Qeethara Al-Shayea

Block codes, which correct asymmetric errors with limited-magnitude, are studied. These codes have been applied recently for error correction in flash memories. The codes will be represented by lattices and the constructions will be based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Sarit Buzaglo , Tuvi Etzion

In this paper, we propose a partitioning technique that decomposes a pair of sequences with overlapping $t$-deletion $s$-substitution balls into sub-pairs, where the $^{\leq}t$-burst-deletion balls of each sub-pair intersect. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

Controlling operational errors and decoherence is one of the major challenges facing the field of quantum computation and other attempts to create specified many-particle entangled states. The field of quantum error correction has developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Gottesman

Consider two remote nodes having binary sequences $X$ and $Y$, respectively. $Y$ is an edited version of ${X}$, where the editing involves random deletions, insertions, and substitutions, possibly in bursts. The goal is for the node with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Ramji Venkataramanan , Vasuki Narasimha Swamy , Kannan Ramchandran

When digital data are transmitted over a noisy channel, it is important to have a mechanism allowing recovery against a limited number of errors. Normally, a user string of 0's and 1's, called bits, is encoded by adding a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Mario Blaum

Codes correcting bursts of deletions and localized deletions have garnered significant research interest in recent years. One of the primary objectives is to construct codes with minimal redundancy. Currently, the best known constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zuo Ye , Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

Many parallel algorithms which solve basic problems in computer science use auxiliary space linear in the input to facilitate conflict-free computation. There has been significant work on improving these parallel algorithms to be in-place,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

Error-correcting codes are a method for representing data, so that one can recover the original information even if some parts of it were corrupted. The basic idea, which dates back to the revolutionary work of Shannon and Hamming about a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Noga Ron-Zewi

A code is called solid if, roughly speaking, any correctly-transmitted codeword in an arbitrarily corrupted string of codewords can still be decoded correctly and unambiguously. So-called variable-length solid codes, in which codewords may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nathan Thomas Carruth

This chapter deals with the topic of designing reliable and efficient codes for the storage and retrieval of large quantities of data over storage devices that are prone to failure. For long, the traditional objective has been one of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

The importance of quantum error correction in paving the way to build a practical quantum computer is no longer in doubt. This dissertation makes a threefold contribution to the mathematical theory of quantum error-correcting codes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-16 Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli

Synthetic polymer-based storage seems to be a particularly promising candidate that could help to cope with the ever-increasing demand for archival storage requirements. It involves designing molecules of distinct masses to represent the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Anisha Banerjee , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Self-synchronization under the presence of additive noise can be achieved by allocating a certain number of bits of each codeword as markers for synchronization. Difference systems of sets are combinatorial designs which specify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Yuichiro Fujiwara , Vladimir D. Tonchev

Strings are ubiquitous in code. Not all strings are created equal, some contain structure that makes them incompatible with other strings. CSS units are an obvious example. Worse, type checkers cannot see this structure: this is the latent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-26 David Kelly , Mark Marron , David Clark , Earl T. Barr