Stochastic Indexing Primitives for Non-Deterministic Molecular Archives

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Main Authors: Alpay, Faruk, Sarioglu, Levent
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Published: 2026
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author Alpay, Faruk
Sarioglu, Levent
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Sarioglu, Levent
contents Random access remains a central bottleneck in DNA-based data storage. Existing systems typically retrieve records by PCR enrichment or other multi-step biochemical procedures, which do not naturally support fast, massively parallel, content-addressable queries. We introduce the Holographic Bloom Filter (HBF), a probabilistic indexing primitive that stores key-pointer associations as a single high-dimensional memory vector. HBF binds a key vector and a value (pointer) vector using circular convolution and superposes bindings across all records. A query decodes by correlating the memory with the query key and selecting the best matching value using a margin-based decision rule. We give construction and decoding algorithms and a probabilistic analysis under explicit noise models (memory corruption and query/key mismatches). The analysis provides concentration bounds for match and non-match score distributions, explicit threshold and margin settings for a top K decoder, and exponential error decay in the vector dimension under standard randomness assumptions. HBF offers a concrete, analyzable alternative to pointer-chasing molecular data structures, enabling one-shot associative retrieval while quantifying trade-offs among dimensionality, dataset size, and noise.
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spellingShingle Stochastic Indexing Primitives for Non-Deterministic Molecular Archives
Alpay, Faruk
Sarioglu, Levent
Data Structures and Algorithms
68P05, 68P20, 68W20, 68P10
E.1; F.2.2; H.3.3
Random access remains a central bottleneck in DNA-based data storage. Existing systems typically retrieve records by PCR enrichment or other multi-step biochemical procedures, which do not naturally support fast, massively parallel, content-addressable queries. We introduce the Holographic Bloom Filter (HBF), a probabilistic indexing primitive that stores key-pointer associations as a single high-dimensional memory vector. HBF binds a key vector and a value (pointer) vector using circular convolution and superposes bindings across all records. A query decodes by correlating the memory with the query key and selecting the best matching value using a margin-based decision rule. We give construction and decoding algorithms and a probabilistic analysis under explicit noise models (memory corruption and query/key mismatches). The analysis provides concentration bounds for match and non-match score distributions, explicit threshold and margin settings for a top K decoder, and exponential error decay in the vector dimension under standard randomness assumptions. HBF offers a concrete, analyzable alternative to pointer-chasing molecular data structures, enabling one-shot associative retrieval while quantifying trade-offs among dimensionality, dataset size, and noise.
title Stochastic Indexing Primitives for Non-Deterministic Molecular Archives
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
68P05, 68P20, 68W20, 68P10
E.1; F.2.2; H.3.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20921