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Approximate trace reconstruction of random strings from a constant number of traces

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arxiv 2107.06454 v1 pith:3FQAZXSE submitted 2021-07-14 math.PR

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keywords constantreconstructiontracetracesapproximatedeletionepsilongoal
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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 goal is to reconstruct an approximation $\widehat{x}$ of $x$ which is close (within $\epsilon n$) to $x$ in edit distance. We show that for most strings $x$, this is possible with high probability using only a constant number of traces. Crucially, this constant does not grow with $n$, and only depends on the deletion probability and $\epsilon$.

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  1. A Generalized Trace Reconstruction Problem: Recovering a String of Probabilities

    cs.DS 2024-12 conditional novelty 8.0 of 10

    Worst-case probability strings require e^{Ω(√n)} traces to distinguish under deletions, while random probability strings are recoverable to ℓ1 error ε with poly(n,1/ε) traces.

  2. Near-Optimal Trace Reconstruction for Mildly Separated Strings

    cs.DS 2024-11 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

    A near-optimal trace reconstruction algorithm uses O(n log n) traces and polynomial time for strings whose 1s are separated by polylog n zeros, under small constant deletion probability.

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