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The sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a communication scenario where the sender transmits a codeword from some codebook and the receiver obtains multiple noisy reads of the codeword. Motivated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Johan Chrisnata , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

We propose coding techniques that limit the length of homopolymers runs, ensure the GC-content constraint, and are capable of correcting a single edit error in strands of nucleotides in DNA-based data storage systems. In particular, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Han Mao Kiah

As a promising field in open-world learning, \textit{Novel Class Discovery} (NCD) is usually a task to cluster unseen novel classes in an unlabeled set based on the prior knowledge of labeled data within the same domain. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yicheng Wang , Feng Liu , Junmin Liu , Kai Sun

We consider analog error-correcting codes (analog ECCs) that are designed to correct/detect outlying errors arising in analog implementations of vector-matrix multiplication. The error-correction/detection capability of an analog ECC can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wentu Song , Kui Cai

In this paper we study error-correcting codes for the storage of data in synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). We investigate a storage model where a data set is represented by an unordered set of $M$ sequences, each of length $L$. Errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Andreas Lenz , Paul H. Siegel , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

The sequence reconstruction problem for insertion/deletion channels has attracted significant attention owing to their applications recently in some emerging data storage systems, such as racetrack memories, DNA-based data storage. Our goal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Van Long Phuoc Pham , Yeow Meng Chee , Kui Cai , Van Khu Vu

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

We consider a binary erasure version of the n-channel multiple descriptions problem with symmetric descriptions, i.e., the rates of the n descriptions are the same and the distortion constraint depends only on the number of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ebad Ahmed , Aaron B. Wagner

Recently convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve great accuracy in visual recognition tasks. DenseNet becomes one of the most popular CNN models due to its effectiveness in feature-reuse. However, like other CNN models, DenseNets also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Kun Wan , Boyuan Feng , Lingwei Xie , Yufei Ding

A message composed of packets is transmitted using erasure and channel coding over a fading channel with no feedback. For this scenario, the paper explores the trade-off between the redundancies allocated to the packet-level erasure code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan , Tong Mu , Richard D. Wesel

In this paper, we show that the single deletion correcting Varshamov-Tenengolts code, with minor modifications, can also correct an ordered deletion-erasure pattern where one deletion and at most one erasure occur and the deletion always…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

We present new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to two related exponential codeword length objectives. The objectives explored here are exponential-average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Michael B. Baer

Applications in machine learning, optimization, and control require the sequential selection of a few system elements, such as sensors, data, or actuators, to optimize the system performance across multiple time steps. However, in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Vasileios Tzoumas , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Composite DNA is a recent method to increase the base alphabet size in DNA-based data storage.This paper models synthesizing and sequencing of composite DNA and introduces coding techniques to correct substitutions, losses of entire…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Frederik Walter , Omer Sabary , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Dropout Regularization, serving to reduce variance, is nearly ubiquitous in Deep Learning models. We explore the relationship between the dropout rate and model complexity by training 2,000 neural networks configured with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Christopher Sun , Jai Sharma , Milind Maiti

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

One of the most common problems in statistical experimentation is computing D-optimal designs on large finite candidate sets. While optimal approximate (i.e., infinite-sample) designs can be efficiently computed using convex methods,…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-12 Radoslav Harman , Samuel Rosa

This paper considers a binary channel with deletions and insertions, where each input bit is transformed in one of the following ways: it is deleted with probability d, or an extra bit is added after it with probability i, or it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda , Kannan Ramchandran

We study the data deletion problem for convex models. By leveraging techniques from convex optimization and reservoir sampling, we give the first data deletion algorithms that are able to handle an arbitrarily long sequence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-07 Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi

In this work, we propose constructions that correct duplications of multiple consecutive symbols. These errors are known as tandem duplications, where a sequence of symbols is repeated; respectively as palindromic duplications, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi