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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

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

The problem of string reconstruction based on its substrings spectrum has received significant attention recently due to its applicability to DNA data storage and sequencing. In contrast to previous works, we consider in this paper a setup…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

In the trace reconstruction problem an unknown string ${\bf x}=(x_0,\dots,x_{n-1})\in\{0,1,...,m-1\}^n$ is observed through the deletion channel, which deletes each $x_k$ with a certain probability, yielding a contracted string…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Lisa Hartung , Nina Holden , Yuval Peres

In the trace reconstruction problem, an unknown bit string ${\bf x}\in\{0,1 \}^n$ is sent through a deletion channel where each bit is deleted independently with some probability $q\in(0,1)$, yielding a contracted string $\widetilde{\bf…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Nina Holden , Russell Lyons

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

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 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 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

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

We show that any $n$-bit string can be recovered with high probability from $\exp(\widetilde{O}(n^{1/5}))$ independent random subsequences.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Zachary Chase

In the (deletion-channel) trace reconstruction problem, there is an unknown $n$-bit source string $x$. An algorithm is given access to independent traces of $x$, where a trace is formed by deleting each bit of~$x$ independently with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Anindya De , Ryan O'Donnell , Rocco Servedio

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

The problem of reconstructing strings from their substring spectra has a long history and in its most simple incarnation asks for determining under which conditions the spectrum uniquely determines the string. We study the problem of coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

This paper studies reconstruction of strings based upon their substrings spectrum. Under this paradigm, it is assumed that all substrings of some fixed length are received and the goal is to reconstruct the string. While many existing works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

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

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

Several recent works have considered the \emph{trace reconstruction problem}, in which an unknown source string $x\in\{0,1\}^n$ is transmitted through a probabilistic channel which may randomly delete coordinates or insert random bits,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Frank Ban , Xi Chen , Rocco A. Servedio , Sandip Sinha

Motivated by DNA-based storage applications, we study the problem of reconstructing a coded sequence from multiple traces. We consider the model where the traces are outputs of independent deletion channels, where each channel deletes each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Serge Kas Hanna