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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

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

Data reconstruction attacks on trained neural networks aim to recover the data on which the network has been trained and pose a significant threat to privacy, especially if the training dataset contains sensitive information. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Edward Tansley , Roy Makhlouf , Estelle Massart , Coralia Cartis

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

Matrix product operators allow efficient descriptions (or realizations) of states on a 1D lattice. We consider the task of learning a realization of minimal dimension from copies of an unknown state, such that the resulting operator is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Marco Fanizza , Niklas Galke , Josep Lumbreras , Cambyse Rouzé , Andreas Winter

The paper considers recovery of signals from incomplete observations and a problem of determination of the allowed quantity of missed observations, i.e. the problem of determination of the size of the uniqueness sets for a given data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Nikolai Dokuchaev

The Levenshtein sequence reconstruction problem studies the reconstruction of a transmitted sequence from multiple erroneous copies of it. A fundamental question in this field is to determine the minimum number of erroneous copies required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Tony Q. S. Quek

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 a {\em locally recoverable} or {\em repairable} code, any symbol of a codeword can be recovered by reading only a small (constant) number of other symbols. The notion of local recoverability is important in the area of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Viveck Cadambe , Arya Mazumdar

The problem of 1-bit compressive sampling is addressed in this paper. We introduce an optimization model for reconstruction of sparse signals from 1-bit measurements. The model targets a solution that has the least l0-norm among all signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Lixin Shen , Bruce W. Suter

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

The sequence reconstruction problem involves a model where a sequence is transmitted over several identical channels. This model investigates the minimum number of channels required for the unique reconstruction of the transmitted sequence.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhaojun Lan , Yubo Sun , Wenjun Yu , Gennian Ge

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

Solving inverse problems with iterative algorithms is popular, especially for large data. Due to time constraints, the number of possible iterations is usually limited, potentially affecting the achievable accuracy. Given an error one is…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Raja Giryes , Yonina C. Eldar , Alex M. Bronstein , Guillermo Sapiro

Sparse recovery can recover sparse signals from a set of underdetermined linear measurements. Motivated by the need to monitor large-scale networks from a limited number of measurements, this paper addresses the problem of recovering sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Meng Wang , Weiyu Xu , Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

This paper introduces a new family of reconstruction codes which is motivated by applications in DNA data storage and sequencing. In such applications, DNA strands are sequenced by reading some subset of their substrings. While previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Daniella Bar-Lev , Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology and DNA storage systems have rekindled the interest in deletion channels. Multiple recent works have looked at variants of sequence reconstruction over a single and over multiple deletion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Michelle Du , Suhas Diggavi , Christina Fragouli

Several real-world and abstract structures and systems are characterized by marked hierarchy to the point of being expressed as trees. Because the study of these entities often involves sampling (or discovering) the tree nodes in a specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-18 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

\ac{fl} proposed a distributed \ac{ml} framework where every distributed worker owns a complete copy of global model and their own data. The training is occurred locally, which assures no direct transmission of training data. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jia Qian , Hiba Nassar , Lars Kai Hansen

Nanopore sequencers are emerging as promising new platforms for high-throughput sequencing. As with other technologies, sequencer errors pose a major challenge for their effective use. In this paper, we present a novel information theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Jarek Duda , Wojciech Szpankowski , Ananth Grama