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The ''trace reconstruction'' problem asks, given an unknown binary string $x$ and a channel that repeatedly returns ''traces'' of $x$ with each bit randomly deleted with some probability $p$, how many traces are needed to recover $x$? There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Arnav Burudgunte , Paul Valiant , Hongao Wang

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 (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

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

In the beautifully simple-to-state problem of trace reconstruction, the goal is to reconstruct an unknown binary string $x$ given random "traces" of $x$ where each trace is generated by deleting each coordinate of $x$ independently with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Arya Mazumdar , Andrew McGregor , Soumyabrata Pal

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

\emph{Population recovery} is the problem of learning an unknown distribution over an unknown set of $n$-bit strings, given access to independent draws from the distribution that have been independently corrupted according to some noise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Frank Ban , Xi Chen , Adam Freilich , Rocco A. Servedio , Sandip Sinha

In the trace reconstruction problem, one observes the output of passing a binary string $s \in \{0,1\}^n$ through a deletion channel $T$ times and wishes to recover $s$ from the resulting $T$ "traces." Most of the literature has focused on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kayvon Mazooji , Ilan Shomorony

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

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

In the trace reconstruction problem, an unknown bit string $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ is observed through the deletion channel, which deletes each bit of $x$ with some constant probability $q$, yielding a contracted string $\widetilde{x}$. How many…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Fedor Nazarov , Yuval Peres

An important problem of reconstruction of diffusion network and transmission probabilities from the data has attracted a considerable attention in the past several years. A number of recent papers introduced efficient algorithms for the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-24 Andrey Y. Lokhov , Theodor Misiakiewicz

Quantum process tomography is the task of reconstructing unknown quantum channels from measured data. In this work, we introduce compressed sensing-based methods that facilitate the reconstruction of quantum channels of low Kraus rank. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Martin Kliesch , Richard Kueng , Jens Eisert , David Gross

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

We propose a new method for reconstruction of sparse signals with and without noisy perturbations, termed the subspace pursuit algorithm. The algorithm has two important characteristics: low computational complexity, comparable to that of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-01-08 Wei Dai , Olgica Milenkovic

We consider the problem of finding a sparse solution for an underdetermined linear system of equations when the known parameters on both sides of the system are subject to perturbation. This problem is particularly relevant to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Reza Arablouei

Channel estimation poses significant challenges in millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, especially when the base station has fewer radio-frequency chains than antennas. To address this challenge, one promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng , Yonina C. Eldar , John M. Cioffi

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

Compressed Sensing suggests that the required number of samples for reconstructing a signal can be greatly reduced if it is sparse in a known discrete basis, yet many real-world signals are sparse in a continuous dictionary. One example is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Yuanxin Li , Yuejie Chi

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