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A problem of reconstructing words from their subwords involves determining the minimum amount of information needed, such as multisets of scattered subwords of a specific length or the frequency of scattered subwords from a given set, in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sergey Luchinin , Svetlana Puzynina , Michaël Rao

In this paper, we propose a compositional nonparametric method in which a model is expressed as a labeled binary tree of $2k+1$ nodes, where each node is either a summation, a multiplication, or the application of one of the $q$ basis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Yixi Xu , Jean Honorio , Xiao Wang

This article shows that any type of binary data can be defined as a collection from codewords of variable length. This feature helps us to define an Injective and surjective function from the suggested codewords to the required codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Parviz Gharehbagheri , Sayeed Hamid Haji Sayeed Javadi , Parvaneh Asghari , Naser Gharehbagheri

Generation of an (arbitrarily) long string of bits unique to a given finite-length numerical seed is of great value in the field of random number generation, computer simulations, and other areas of computer science. Extending this idea…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-10 S. P. Christmas , R. M. Leidich

We propose algorithms that, given the input string of length $n$ over integer alphabet of size $\sigma$, construct the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT), the permuted longest-common-prefix (PLCP) array, and the LZ77 parsing in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Dominik Kempa

Non-binary codes correcting multiple deletions have recently attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we focus on multiplicity-free codes, a family of non-binary codes where all symbols are distinct. Our main contribution is a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Michael Schaller , Beatrice Toesca , Van Khu Vu

Determining whether an unordered collection of overlapping substrings (called shingles) can be uniquely decoded into a consistent string is a problem that lies within the foundation of a broad assortment of disciplines ranging from…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Aryeh Kontorovich , Ari Trachtenberg

We introduce the following natural generalization of trace reconstruction, parameterized by a deletion probability $\delta \in (0,1)$ and length $n$: There is a length $n$ string of probabilities, $S=p_1,\ldots,p_n,$ and each "trace" is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joey Rivkin , Gregory Valiant , Paul Valiant

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

Motivated by DNA storage in living organisms, and by known biological mutation processes, we study the reverse-complement string-duplication system. We fully classify the conditions under which the system has full expressiveness, for all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Eyar Ben-Tolila , Moshe Schwartz

The binary string matching problem consists in finding all the occurrences of a pattern in a text where both strings are built on a binary alphabet. This is an interesting problem in computer science, since binary data are omnipresent in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-15 Simone Faro , Thierry Lecroq

The problem called "String reconstruction from substrings" is a mathematical model of sequencing by hybridization that plays an important role in DNA sequencing. In this problem, we are given a blackbox oracle holding an unknown string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Kazuo Iwama , Junichi Teruyama , Shuntaro Tsuyama

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

Most of the attention in statistical compression is given to the space used by the compressed sequence, a problem completely solved with optimal prefix codes. However, in many applications, the storage space used to represent the prefix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Yakov Nekrich , Alberto Ordóñez

We study the fundamental question of how efficiently suffix array entries can be accessed when the array cannot be stored explicitly. The suffix array $SA_T[1..n]$ of a text $T$ of length $n$ encodes the lexicographic order of its suffixes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka

The problem of string reconstruction based on its substrings spectrum has received significant attention recently due to its applicability to DNA data storage and sequencing. In contrast to previous works, we consider in this paper a setup…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

In the trace reconstruction problem, one seeks to reconstruct a binary string $s$ from a collection of traces, each of which is obtained by passing $s$ through a deletion channel. It is known that $\exp(\tilde O(n^{1/5}))$ traces suffice to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Kayvon Mazooji , Ilan Shomorony

We refine a uniform algebraic approach for deriving upper bounds on reset thresholds of synchronizing automata. We express the condition that an automaton is synchronizing in terms of linear algebra, and obtain upper bounds for the reset…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Mikhail Berlinkov , Marek Szykuła

List recovery of error-correcting codes has emerged as a fundamental notion with broad applications across coding theory and theoretical computer science. Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rohan Goyal , Venkatesan Guruswami

When digital data are transmitted over a noisy channel, it is important to have a mechanism allowing recovery against a limited number of errors. Normally, a user string of 0's and 1's, called bits, is encoded by adding a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Mario Blaum