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The sequence reconstruction problem involves a model where a sequence is transmitted over several identical channels. This model investigates the minimum number of channels required for the unique reconstruction of the transmitted sequence.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhaojun Lan , Yubo Sun , Wenjun Yu , Gennian Ge

A new class of exact-repair regenerating codes is constructed by stitching together shorter erasure correction codes, where the stitching pattern can be viewed as block designs. The proposed codes have the "help-by-transfer" property where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Chao Tian , Birenjith Sasidharan , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , P. Vijay Kumar

In coding theory, handling errors that occur when symbols are inserted or deleted from a transmitted message is a long-standing challenge. Optimising redundancy for insertion and deletion channels remains a key open problem with significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anamika Singh , Abhay Kumar Singh

This paper proves that any quantum t-deletion-correcting codes also correct a total of t insertion and deletion errors under a certain condition. Here, this condition is that a set of quantum states is defined as a quantum error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ken Nakamura , Takayuki Nozaki

In the Levenshtein's sequence reconstruction problem a codeword is transmitted through $N$ channels and in each channel a set of errors is introduced to the transmitted word. In previous works, the restriction that each channel provides a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ville Junnila , Tero Laihonen , Tuomo Lehtilä

This work constructs codes that are efficiently decodable from a constant fraction of \emph{worst-case} insertion and deletion errors in three parameter settings: (i) Binary codes with rate approaching 1; (ii) Codes with constant rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li

In this paper, we discuss a construction method of quantum deletion error-correcting codes. First of all, we define deletion errors for quantum states, an encoder, a decoder, and two conditions which is expressed by only the combinatorial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Ayumu Nakayama , Manabu Hagiwara

Motivated by applications in DNA-based storage and communication systems, we study deletion and insertion errors simultaneously in a burst. In particular, we study a type of error named $t$-deletion-$s$-insertion-burst ($(t,s)$-burst for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ziyang Lu , Yiwei Zhang

The performance of Reed--Solomon codes (RS codes, for short) in the presence of insertion and deletion errors has attracted growing attention in recent literature. In this work, we further study this intriguing mathematical problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Peter Beelen , Roni Con , Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Eitan Yaakobi

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

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (indel) errors. While most constructions for the indel model are nonlinear, linear codes offer compact representations, efficient encoding, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Roee Gross , Roni Con , Eitan Yaakobi

This paper investigates the problem of correcting multiple criss-cross insertions and deletions in arrays. More precisely, we study the unique recovery of $n \times n$ arrays affected by $t$-criss-cross deletions defined as any combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lorenz Welter , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

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

Motivated by polymer-based data-storage platforms that use chains of binary synthetic polymers as the recording media and read the content via tandem mass spectrometers, we propose a new family of codes that allows for unique string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

Motivated by the sequence reconstruction problem initiated by Levenshtein, reconstruction codes were introduced by Cai \emph{et al}. to combat errors when a fixed number of noisy channels are available. The central problem on this topic is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Rongsheng Wu , Xiande Zhang

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

In this paper, we investigate codes designed to correct two bursts of deletions, where each burst has a length of exactly $b$, where $b>1$. The previous best construction, achieved through the syndrome compression technique, had a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zuo Ye , Yubo Sun , Wenjun Yu , Gennian Ge , Ohad Elishco

This paper extends the foundational work of Dollma \emph{et al}. on codes for ordered composite DNA sequences. We consider the general setting with an alphabet of size $q$ and a resolution parameter $k$, moving beyond the binary ($q=2$)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zuo Ye , Yuling Li , Zhaojun Lan , Gennian Ge

We study optimal reconstruction codes over the multiple-burst substitution channel. Our main contribution is establishing a trade-off between the error-correction capability of the code, the number of reads used in the reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenjun Yu , Yubo Sun , Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge , Moshe Schwartz

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (insdel) errors, a topic that has recently gained a lot of attention. We construct linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roni Con , Amir Shpilka , Itzhak Tamo