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In this work, we analyze the capabilities and practical limitations of neural networks (NNs) for sequence-based signal processing which can be seen as an omnipresent property in almost any modern communication systems. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Daniel Tandler , Sebastian Dörner , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

In this paper, we investigate binary reconstruction codes capable of correcting one deletion and one substitution. We define the \emph{single-deletion single-substitution ball} function $ \mathcal{B} $ as a mapping from a sequence to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yuling Li , Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

Real-world sequential signals, such as audio or video, contain critical information that is often embedded within long periods of silence or noise. While recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are designed to process such data efficiently, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Bojian Yin , Shurong Wang , Haoyu Tan , Sander Bohte , Federico Corradi , Guoqi Li

Ancestral sequence reconstruction is a key task in computational biology. It consists in inferring a molecular sequence at an ancestral species of a known phylogeny, given descendant sequences at the tip of the tree. In addition to its many…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-27 Brandon Legried , Sebastien Roch

\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

This work considers the multi-channel blind deconvolution problem under the assumption that the channels are short. First, we investigate the ill-posedness issues inherent to blind deconvolution problems and sufficient and necessary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Antoine Paris , Laurent Jacques

Information embedding (IE) is the transmission of information within a host signal subject to a distortion constraint. There are two types of embedding methods, namely irreversible IE and reversible IE, depending upon whether or not the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-20 ShivaPrasad Kotagiri , J. Nicholas Laneman

We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for a system under sparse signal corruption by a malicious agent. The reconstruction problem follows the standard error coding problem that has been studied extensively in the literature. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Yu Zheng , Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Lalit Mestha , Hema Achanta

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We present many new results related to reliable (interactive) communication over insertion-deletion channels. Synchronization errors, such as insertions and deletions, strictly generalize the usual symbol corruption errors and are much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Ellen Vitercik

While much of the work in the design of convolutional networks over the last five years has revolved around the empirical investigation of the importance of depth, filter sizes, and number of feature channels, recent studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Karim Ahmed , Lorenzo Torresani

We consider the problem of multiple description scalar quantizers and describing the achievable rate-distortion tuples in that setting. We formulate it as a combinatorial optimization problem of arranging numbers in a matrix to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf , Edward M. Reingold

The Sequential Multiple Knapsack Problem is a special case of Multiple knapsack problem in which the items sizes are divisible. A characterization of the optimal solutions of the problem and a description of the convex hull of all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Paolo Detti

We consider the problem of storing and retrieving information from synthetic DNA media. The mathematical basis of the problem is the construction and design of sequences that may be discriminated based on their collection of substrings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Han Mao Kiah , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Channels with synchronization errors, such as deletion and insertion errors, are crucial in DNA storage, data reconstruction, and other applications. These errors introduce memory to the channel, complicating its capacity analysis. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Busra Tegin , Tolga M Duman

Countless learning tasks require dealing with sequential data. Image captioning, speech synthesis, and music generation all require that a model produce outputs that are sequences. In other domains, such as time series prediction, video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zachary C. Lipton , John Berkowitz , Charles Elkan

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

Consider a binary word being transmitted through a communication channel that introduces deletable errors where each bit of the word is either retained, flipped, erased or deleted. The simplest code for correcting \emph{all} possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

This paper considers insertion and deletion channels with the additional assumption that the channel input sequence is implicitly divided into segments such that at most one edit can occur within a segment. No segment markers are available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Mahed Abroshan , Ramji Venkataramanan , Albert Guillen i Fabregas

This paper investigates the performance of streaming codes in low-latency applications over a multi-link three-node relayed network. The source wishes to transmit a sequence of messages to the destination through a relay. Each message must…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Gustavo Kasper Facenda , Elad Domanovitz , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos