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We consider the problem of constructing binary codes to recover from $k$-bit deletions with efficient encoding/decoding, for a fixed $k$. The single deletion case is well understood, with the Varshamov-Tenengolts-Levenshtein code from 1965…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Samuel Zbarsky

Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

One peculiarity with deletion-correcting codes is that perfect $t$-deletion-correcting codes of the same length over the same alphabet can have different numbers of codewords, because the balls of radius $t$ with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Yeow Meng Chee , Gennian Ge , Alan C. H. Ling

In this paper we construct multidimensional codes with high dimension. The codes can correct high dimensional errors which have the form of either small clusters, or confined to an area with a small radius. We also consider small number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Eitan Yaakobi , Tuvi Etzion

In this work, we derive upper bounds on the cardinality of tandem duplication and palindromic deletion correcting codes by deriving the generalized sphere packing bound for these error types. We first prove that an upper bound for tandem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Let $\mathcal{B}(\cdot)$ be an error ball function. A set of $q$-ary sequences of length $n$ is referred to as an \emph{$(n,q,N;\mathcal{B})$-reconstruction code} if each sequence $\boldsymbol{x}$ within this set can be uniquely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

The problem of designing codes for deletion-correction and synchronization has received renewed interest due to applications in DNA-based data storage systems that use nanopore sequencers as readout platforms. In almost all instances,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuan-Pon Chen , Olgica Milenkovic , João Ribeiro , Jin Sima

Function-correcting codes, introduced by Lenz, Bitar, Wachter-Zeh, and Yaakobi, protect specific function values of a message rather than the entire message. A central challenge is determining the optimal redundancy -- the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gennian Ge , Zixiang Xu , Xiande Zhang , Yijun Zhang

Erasure coding is widely used for massive storage in data centers to achieve high fault tolerance and low storage redundancy. Since the cross-rack communication cost is often high, it is critical to design erasure codes that minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee , Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

Levenshtein introduced the problem of constructing $k$-deletion correcting codes in 1966, proved that the optimal redundancy of those codes is $O(k\log N)$, and proposed an optimal redundancy single-deletion correcting code (using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jin Sima , Jehoshua Bruck

We study segmented burst-deletion channels motivated by the observation that synchronization errors commonly occur in a bursty manner in real-world settings. In this channel model, transmitted sequences are implicitly divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

We consider the problem of designing low-redundancy codes in settings where one must correct deletions in conjunction with substitutions or adjacent transpositions; a combination of errors that is usually observed in DNA-based data storage.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ryan Gabrys , Venkatesan Guruswami , João Ribeiro , Ke Wu

We consider the problem of constructing codes that can correct deletions that are localized within a certain part of the codeword that is unknown a priori. Namely, the model that we study is when at most $k$ deletions occur in a window of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Rawad Bitar , Serge Kas Hanna , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev

In the modern era of large-scale computing systems, a crucial use of error correcting codes is to judiciously introduce redundancy to ensure recoverability from failure. To get the most out of every byte, practitioners and theorists have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

A code is said to be a $r$-local locally repairable code (LRC) if each of its coordinates can be repaired by accessing at most $r$ other coordinates. When some of the $r$ coordinates are also erased, the $r$-local LRC can not accomplish the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Jie Hao , Fang-Wei Fu

Optimal prefix codes are studied for pairs of independent, integer-valued symbols emitted by a source with a geometric probability distribution of parameter $q$, $0{<}q{<}1$. By encoding pairs of symbols, it is possible to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Frédérique Bassino , Julien Clément , Gadiel Seroussi , Alfredo Viola

This paper gives some theory and efficient design of binary block systematic codes capable of controlling the deletions of the symbol ``$0$'' (referred to as $0$-deletions) and/or the insertions of the symbol ``$0$'' (referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Luca G. Tallini , Nawaf Alqwaifly , Bella Bose

Burst errors involving simultaneous insertions, deletions, and substitutions occur in practical scenarios, including DNA data storage and document synchronization, motivating developments of channel codes that can correct such errors. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

Construction of capacity achieving deletion correcting codes has been a baffling challenge for decades. A recent breakthrough by Brakensiek $et~al$., alongside novel applications in DNA storage, have reignited the interest in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

We construct constant-sized ensembles of linear error-correcting codes over any fixed alphabet that can correct a given fraction of adversarial erasures at rates approaching the Singleton bound arbitrarily closely. We provide several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yeyuan Chen , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Nikhil Shagrithaya