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Autori principali: Aamand, Anders, Liu, Allen, Narayanan, Shyam
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18765
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author Aamand, Anders
Liu, Allen
Narayanan, Shyam
author_facet Aamand, Anders
Liu, Allen
Narayanan, Shyam
contents 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 $δ$ and concatenating the remaining bits. It is a major open question whether the trace reconstruction problem can be solved with a polynomial number of traces when the deletion probability $δ$ is constant. The best known upper bound and lower bounds are respectively $\exp(\tilde O(n^{1/5}))$ and $\tilde Ω(n^{3/2})$ both by Chase [Cha21b,Cha21a]. Our main result is that if the string $x$ is mildly separated, meaning that the number of zeros between any two ones in $x$ is at least polylog$n$, and if $δ$ is a sufficiently small constant, then the trace reconstruction problem can be solved with $O(n \log n)$ traces and in polynomial time.
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spellingShingle Near-Optimal Trace Reconstruction for Mildly Separated Strings
Aamand, Anders
Liu, Allen
Narayanan, Shyam
Data Structures and Algorithms
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 $δ$ and concatenating the remaining bits. It is a major open question whether the trace reconstruction problem can be solved with a polynomial number of traces when the deletion probability $δ$ is constant. The best known upper bound and lower bounds are respectively $\exp(\tilde O(n^{1/5}))$ and $\tilde Ω(n^{3/2})$ both by Chase [Cha21b,Cha21a]. Our main result is that if the string $x$ is mildly separated, meaning that the number of zeros between any two ones in $x$ is at least polylog$n$, and if $δ$ is a sufficiently small constant, then the trace reconstruction problem can be solved with $O(n \log n)$ traces and in polynomial time.
title Near-Optimal Trace Reconstruction for Mildly Separated Strings
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18765