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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

The trace reconstruction problem studies the number of noisy samples needed to recover an unknown string $\boldsymbol{x}\in\{0,1\}^n$ with high probability, where the samples are independently obtained by passing $\boldsymbol{x}$ through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jin Sima , Jehoshua Bruck

The goal of trace reconstruction is to reconstruct an unknown $n$-bit string $x$ given only independent random traces of $x$, where a random trace of $x$ is obtained by passing $x$ through a deletion channel. A Statistical Query (SQ)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Chin Ho Lee , Rocco A. Servedio

In the trace reconstruction problem, one attempts to reconstruct a fixed but unknown string $x$ of length $n$ from a given number of traces $\tilde{x}$ drawn iid from the application of a noisy process (such as the deletion channel) to $x$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ittai Rubinstein

The {\em insertion-deletion channel} takes as input a binary string $x \in\{0, 1\}^n$, and outputs a string $\widetilde{x}$ where some of the bits have been deleted and others inserted independently at random. In the {\em trace…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Ittai Rubinstein

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

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

The coded trace reconstruction problem asks to construct a code $C\subset \{0,1\}^n$ such that any $x\in C$ is recoverable from independent outputs ("traces") of $x$ from a binary deletion channel (BDC). We present binary codes of rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joshua Brakensiek , Ray Li , Bruce Spang

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

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

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

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

A \emph{trace} of a sequence is generated by deleting each bit of the sequence independently with a fixed probability. The well-studied \emph{trace reconstruction} problem asks how many traces are required to reconstruct an unknown binary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Wenjie Zhong , Xiande Zhang

The goal of the trace reconstruction problem is to recover a string $x\in\{0,1\}^n$ given many independent {\em traces} of $x$, where a trace is a subsequence obtained from deleting bits of $x$ independently with some given probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Kuan Cheng , Elena Grigorescu , Xin Li , Madhu Sudan , Minshen Zhu

\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

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 show that any $n$-bit string can be recovered with high probability from $\exp(\widetilde{O}(n^{1/5}))$ independent random subsequences.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Zachary Chase

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

Reconstructing continuous signals from a small number of discrete samples is a fundamental problem across science and engineering. In practice, we are often interested in signals with 'simple' Fourier structure, such as bandlimited,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

Suppose a graph $G$ is stochastically created by uniformly sampling vertices along a line segment and connecting each pair of vertices with a probability that is a known decreasing function of their distance. We ask if it is possible to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yu Chen , Sampath Kannan , Sanjeev Khanna