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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

Levenshtein first introduced the sequence reconstruction problem in $2001$. In the realm of combinatorics, the sequence reconstruction problem is equivalent to determining the value of $N(n,d,t)$, which represents the maximum size of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Xiang Wang , Weijun Fang , Han Li , Fang-Wei Fu

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 sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a communication scenario where the sender transmits a codeword from some codebook and the receiver obtains multiple noisy reads of the codeword. The common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Kui Cai , Han Mao Kiah , Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Eitan Yaakobi

Reconstruction codes are generalizations of error-correcting codes that can correct errors by a given number of noisy reads. The study of such codes was initiated by Levenshtein in 2001 and developed recently due to applications in modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zuo Ye , Xin Liu , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

The problem of storing large amounts of information safely for a long period of time has become essential. One of the most promising new data storage mediums are the polymer-based data storage systems, like the DNA-storage system. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ville Junnila , Tero Laihonen , Tuomo Lehtilä

Motivated by the sequence reconstruction problem from traces in DNA-based storage, we consider the problem of designing codes for the deletion channel when multiple observations (or traces) are available to the decoder. We propose simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Mahed Abroshan , Ramji Venkataramanan , Lara Dolecek , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

The population recovery problem asks one to recover an unknown distribution over $n$-bit strings given access to independent noisy samples of strings drawn from the distribution. Recently, Ban et al. [BCF+19] studied the problem where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Shyam Narayanan

A common problem in the sciences is that a signal of interest is observed only indirectly, through smooth functionals of the signal whose values are then obscured by noise. In such inverse problems, the functionals dampen or entirely…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-04 Darren Homrighausen , Christopher R. Genovese

In this paper, we derive an expression for the expected number of runs in a trace of a binary sequence $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ obtained by passing $x$ through a deletion channel that independently deletes each bit with probability $q$. We use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shiv Pratap Singh Rathore , Navin Kashyap

This paper investigates the number of quantum queries made to solve the problem of reconstructing an unknown string from its substrings in a certain query model. More concretely, the goal of the problem is to identify an unknown string $S$…

Tree trace reconstruction aims to learn the binary node labels of a tree, given independent samples of the tree passed through an appropriately defined deletion channel. In recent work, Davies, R\'acz, and Rashtchian used combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Tatiana Brailovskaya , Miklós Z. Rácz

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

In this paper, we consider the Levenshtein's sequence reconstruction problem in the case where the transmitted codeword is chosen from $\{0,1\}^n$ and the channel can delete up to $t$ symbols from the transmitted codeword. We determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Fengxing Zhu

String similarity, longest common subsequence and shortest edit scripts are the triplets of problem that related to each other. There are different algorithms exist to generate edit script by solving longest common subsequence problem. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-19 P. Prakash Maria Liju

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

The edit distance (a.k.a. the Levenshtein distance) between two strings is defined as the minimum number of insertions, deletions or substitutions of symbols needed to transform one string into another. The problem of computing the edit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk

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

This paper revisits the classical problem "Can we hear the density of a string?", which can be formulated as an inverse spectral problem for a Sturm-Liouville operator. Based on inverting a sequence of trace formulas, we propose a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Xiang Xu , Jian Zhai

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