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The general trace reconstruction problem seeks to recover an original sequence from its noisy copies independently corrupted by deletions, insertions, and substitutions. This problem arises in applications such as DNA data storage, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Franziska Weindel , Michael Girsch , Reinhard Heckel

In this paper, we study the sample complexity and develop efficient optimal algorithms for 1-bit phase retrieval: recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ phaseless bits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Junren Chen , Ming Yuan

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

We develop mask iterative hard thresholding algorithms (mask IHT and mask DORE) for sparse image reconstruction of objects with known contour. The measurements follow a noisy underdetermined linear model common in the compressive sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-05 Aleksandar Dogandzic , Renliang Gu , Kun Qiu

Mitigation and calibration schemes are central to maximize the computational reach of today's Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, but these schemes are often specialized to exclusively address either coherent or decoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Arnaud Carignan-Dugas , Shashank Kumar Ranu , Patrick Dreher

We consider the problem of reconstructing a signal from noisy measurements in linear mixing systems. The reconstruction performance is usually quantified by standard error metrics such as squared error, whereas we consider any additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Jin Tan , Dror Baron

We consider the problem of estimating the probability of an observed string drawn i.i.d. from an unknown distribution. The key feature of our study is that the length of the observed string is assumed to be of the same order as the size of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Aaron B. Wagner , Pramod Viswanath , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

In quantum communication via noisy channels, the error probability scales exponentially with the length of the channel. We present a scheme of a quantum repeater that overcomes this limitation. The central idea is to connect a string of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -J. Briegel , W. Dür , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

With recent technological advances, process logs, which were traditionally deterministic in nature, are being captured from non-deterministic sources, such as uncertain sensors or machine learning models (that predict activities using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Maximilian Matyash , Avigdor Gal , Arik Senderovich

Phase retrieval is a nonlinear inverse problem that arises in a wide range of imaging modalities, from electron microscopy to Fourier ptychography. In particular, the reconstruction is facilitated when the sensing matrix is i.i.d. random,…

Probabilistic error cancellation is an attempt to reverse the effect of dissipative noise channels on quantum computers by applying unphysical channels after the execution of a quantum algorithm on noisy hardware. We investigate on general…

We consider the \textit{phase retrieval} problem of recovering a sparse signal $\mathbf{x}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ from intensity-only measurements in dimension $d \geq 2$. Phase retrieval can be equivalently formulated as the problem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Alexei Novikov , Stephen White

Given $iid$ observations from an unknown absolute continuous distribution defined on some domain $\Omega$, we propose a nonparametric method to learn a piecewise constant function to approximate the underlying probability density function.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-13 Dangna Li , Kun Yang , Wing Hung Wong

We propose a method, called ACQUIRE, for the solution of constrained optimization problems modeling the restoration of images corrupted by Poisson noise. The objective function is the sum of a generalized Kullback-Leibler divergence term…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Daniela di Serafino , Germana Landi , Marco Viola

We propose a method to reconstruct sparse signals degraded by a nonlinear distortion and acquired at a limited sampling rate. Our method formulates the reconstruction problem as a nonconvex minimization of the sum of a data fitting term and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Arthur Marmin , Marc Castella , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Laurent Duval

The algorithmic tasks of computing the Hamming distance between a given pattern of length $m$ and each location in a text of length $n$ is one of the most fundamental algorithmic tasks in string algorithms. Unfortunately, there is evidence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat

This study investigates whether reoptimization can help in solving the closest substring problem. We are dealing with the following reoptimization scenario. Suppose, we have an optimal l-length closest substring of a given set of sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jhoirene B. Clemente , Henry N. Adorna

We study the fundamental problem of high-dimensional mean estimation in a robust model where a constant fraction of the samples are adversarially corrupted. Recent work gave the first polynomial time algorithms for this problem with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rong Ge

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 $S$…

As quantum computers approach the fault tolerance threshold, diagnosing and characterizing the noise on large scale quantum devices is increasingly important. One of the most important classes of noise channels is the class of Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Robin Harper , Wenjun Yu , Steven T. Flammia