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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

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 investigate the problem of designing $(n, N; \mathcal{B})$-reconstruction codes for $N\in \{14,11,9,5\}$, where $\mathcal{B}$ is the single-deletion single-substitution ball function that maps a sequence to the set of all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuling Li , Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

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

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 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

The sequence reconstruction problem asks for the recovery of a sequence from multiple noisy copies, where each copy may contain up to $r$ errors. In the case of permutations on \(n\) letters under the Hamming metric, this problem is closely…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-08 A. Abdollahi , J. Bagherian , H. Eskandari , F. Jafari , M. Khatami , F. Parvaresh , R. Sobhani

We develop upper bounds on code size for an independent and identically distributed deletion and insertion channels for a given code length and target frame error probability. The bounds are obtained as a variation of a general converse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruslan Morozov , Tolga Mete Duman

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 the trace reconstruction problem, one observes the output of passing a binary string $s \in \{0,1\}^n$ through a deletion channel $T$ times and wishes to recover $s$ from the resulting $T$ "traces." Most of the literature has focused on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kayvon Mazooji , Ilan Shomorony

We study error-correcting codes in the space $\mathcal{S}_{n,q}$ of length-$n$ multisets over a $q$-ary alphabet under the deletion metric, motivated by permutation channels in which ordering is completely lost and errors act only on symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Avraham Kreindel , Isaac Barouch Essayag , Aryeh Lev Zabokritskiy

The deletion channel is the simplest point-to-point communication channel that models lack of synchronization. Despite significant effort, little is known about its capacity, and even less about optimal coding schemes. In this paper we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-02 Yashodhan Kanoria , Andrea Montanari

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

In the trace reconstruction problem our goal is to learn an unknown string $x\in \{0,1\}^n$ given independent traces of $x$. A trace is obtained by independently deleting each bit of $x$ with some probability $\delta$ and concatenating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Anders Aamand , Allen Liu , Shyam Narayanan

We consider deletion correcting codes over a q-ary alphabet. It is well known that any code capable of correcting s deletions can also correct any combination of s total insertions and deletions. To obtain asymptotic upper bounds on code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Daniel Cullina , Negar Kiyavash

In the trace reconstruction problem, the goal is to reconstruct an unknown string $x$ of length $n$ from multiple traces obtained by passing $x$ through the deletion channel. In the relaxed problem of $approximate$ trace reconstruction, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Zachary Chase , Yuval Peres

Consider two or more strings $\mathbf{x}^1,\mathbf{x}^2,\ldots,$ that are concatenated to form $\mathbf{x}=\langle \mathbf{x}^1,\mathbf{x}^2,\ldots \rangle$. Suppose that up to $\delta$ deletions occur in each of the concatenated strings.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Serge Kas Hanna

In the \emph{trace reconstruction problem}, an unknown source string $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ is transmitted through a probabilistic \emph{deletion channel} which independently deletes each bit with some fixed probability $\delta$ and concatenates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Chin Ho Lee , Rocco A. Servedio , Sandip Sinha

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

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