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Graphs are a powerful tool for analyzing large data sets, but many real-world phenomena involve interactions that go beyond the simple pairwise relationships captured by a graph. In this paper we introduce and study a simple combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Elise Tate , Joshua A. Grochow

We consider the phylogenetic tree reconstruction problem with insertions and deletions (indels). Phylogenetic algorithms proceed under a model where sequences evolve down the model tree, and given sequences at the leaves, the problem is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Arun Ganesh , Qiuyi Zhang

We introduce and initiate the study of a new model of reductions called the random noise model. In this model, the truth table $T_f$ of the function $f$ is corrupted on a randomly chosen $\delta$-fraction of instances. A randomized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tejas Nareddy , Abhishek Mishra

Stroke order and velocity are helpful features in the fields of signature verification, handwriting recognition, and handwriting synthesis. Recovering these features from offline handwritten text is a challenging and well-studied problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Taylor Archibald , Mason Poggemann , Aaron Chan , Tony Martinez

The interest in quantum computing has grown rapidly in recent years, and with it grows the importance of securing quantum circuits. A novel type of threat to quantum circuits that dedicated attackers could launch are power trace attacks. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ferhat Erata , Chuanqi Xu , Ruzica Piskac , Jakub Szefer

The paper studies recoverability of missing values for sequences in a pathwise setting without probabilistic assumptions. This setting is oriented on a situation where the underlying sequence is considered as a sole sequence rather than a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Nikolai Dokuchaev

Sharpness is an almost generic assumption in continuous optimization that bounds the distance from minima by objective function suboptimality. It facilitates the acceleration of first-order methods through restarts. However, sharpness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Ben Adcock , Matthew J. Colbrook , Maksym Neyra-Nesterenko

We consider a network where an infection cascade has taken place and a subset of infected nodes has been partially observed. Our goal is to reconstruct the underlying cascade that is likely to have generated these observations. We reduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Han Xiao , Cigdem Aslay , Aristides Gionis

This paper deals with gene networks whose dynamics is assumed to be generated by a continuous-time, linear, time invariant, finite dimensional system (LTI) at steady state. In particular, we deal with the problem of network reconstruction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Farina , Ilaria Mogno

Practical applications of quantum computing depend on fault-tolerant devices that employ error correction. A promising quantum error-correcting code for large-scale quantum computing is the surface code. For this code, Fault-Tolerant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Theodoros Trochatos , Christopher Kang , Andrew Wang , Frederic T. Chong , Jakub Szefer

Universal compression of patterns of sequences generated by independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources with unknown, possibly large, alphabets is investigated. A pattern is a sequence of indices that contains all consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gil I. Shamir

We investigate real-time tracking of two correlated stochastic processes over a shared wireless channel. The joint evolution of the processes is modeled as a two-dimensional discrete-time Markov chain. Each process is observed by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

We introduce an optimization-based reconstruction attack capable of completely or near-completely reconstructing a dataset utilized for training a random forest. Notably, our approach relies solely on information readily available in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Julien Ferry , Ricardo Fukasawa , Timothée Pascal , Thibaut Vidal

Recovering the transmission matrix of a disordered medium is a challenging problem in disordered photonics. Usually, its reconstruction relies on a complex inversion that aims at connecting a fully-controlled input to the deterministic…

We address the inverse problem of reconstructing both the structure and dynamics of a network from mean-field measurements, which are linear combinations of node states. This setting arises in applications where only a few aggregated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Narcicegi Kiran , Tiago Pereira

Traditionally, data compression deals with the problem of concisely representing a data source, e.g. a sequence of letters, for the purpose of eventual reproduction (either exact or approximate). In this work we are interested in the case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman

The problem of reconstructing strings from substring information has found many applications due to its importance in genomic data sequencing and DNA- and polymer-based data storage. One practically important and challenging paradigm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Ryan Gabrys , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Olgica Milenkovic

Off-policy learning from multistep returns is crucial for sample-efficient reinforcement learning, particularly in the experience replay setting now commonly used with deep neural networks. Classically, off-policy estimation bias is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Brett Daley , Christopher Amato

We study the problem of reconstructing an unknown point in $\mathbb{R}^d$ from approximate linear queries. This setting arises naturally in applications ranging from low-dimensional remote sensing and signal recovery to high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuval Filmus , Shay Moran , Elizaveta Nesterova

This paper addresses the classical problem of one-bit compressed sensing using a deep learning-based reconstruction algorithm that leverages a trained generative model to enhance the signal reconstruction performance. The generator, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Swatantra Kafle , Geethu Joseph , Pramod K. Varshney