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An iterated refinement procedure for the Guruswami--Sudan list decoding algorithm for Generalised Reed--Solomon codes based on Alekhnovich's module minimisation is proposed. The method is parametrisable and allows variants of the usual list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-31 Johan Sebastian Rosenkilde Nielsen , Alexander Zeh

We give a polynomial time algorithm to decode multivariate polynomial codes of degree $d$ up to half their minimum distance, when the evaluation points are an arbitrary product set $S^m$, for every $d < |S|$. Previously known algorithms can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-25 John Kim , Swastik Kopparty

Decoders that provide an estimate of the probability of a logical failure conditioned on the error syndrome ("soft-output decoders") can reduce the overhead cost of fault-tolerant quantum memory and computation. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Nadine Meister , Christopher A. Pattison , John Preskill

Many implementations for decoding LDPC codes are based on the (normalized/offset) min-sum algorithm due to its satisfactory performance and simplicity in operations. Usually, each iteration of the min-sum algorithm contains two scans, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiaofei Huang

In this paper, a lemma in algebraic coding theory is established, which is frequently appeared in the encoding and decoding for algebraic codes such as Reed-Solomon codes and algebraic geometry codes. This lemma states that two vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Hajime Matsui

For the majority of the applications of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, hard decision decoding is based on syndromes. Recently, there has been renewed interest in decoding RS codes without using syndromes. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-08 Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan

We establish that it is possible to extract accurate blockwise and bitwise soft output from Guessing Codeword Decoding with minimal additional computational complexity by considering it as a variant of Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ken R. Duffy , Peihong Yuan , Joseph Griffin , Muriel Medard

In this paper, a new approach for decoding low-rate Reed-Solomon codes beyond half the minimum distance is considered and analyzed. Unlike the Sudan algorithm published in 1997, this new approach is based on multi-sequence shift-register…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Georg Schmidt , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Martin Bossert

Understanding the limits of list-decoding and list-recovery of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is of prime interest in coding theory and has attracted a lot of attention in recent decades. However, the best possible parameters for these problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

Distributed storage systems for large clusters typically use replication to provide reliability. Recently, erasure codes have been used to reduce the large storage overhead of three-replicated systems. Reed-Solomon codes are the standard…

Recently, Martinez-Penas and Kschischang (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2019) showed that lifted linearized Reed-Solomon codes are suitable codes for error control in multishot network coding. We show how to construct and decode lifted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

An iterated refinement procedure for the Guruswami-Sudan list decoding algorithm for Generalised Reed-Solomon codes based on Alekhnovich's module minimisation is proposed. The method is parametrisable and allows variants of the usual list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Johan Sebastian Rosenkilde Nielsen , Alexander Zeh

The classical family of $[n,k]_q$ Reed-Solomon codes over a field $\F_q$ consist of the evaluations of polynomials $f \in \F_q[X]$ of degree $< k$ at $n$ distinct field elements. In this work, we consider a closely related family of codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Venkatesan Guruswami , Carol Wang

We discuss how subspace codes can be used to simultaneously correct errors and erasures when the network performs random linear network coding and the edges are noisy channels. This is done by combining the subspace code with a classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Olav Geil , Louise Foshammer , Malte Neve-Græsbøll

Mart{\'\i}nez-Pe{\~n}as and Kschischang (IEEE Trans.\ Inf.\ Theory, 2019) proposed lifted linearized Reed--Solomon codes as suitable codes for error control in multishot network coding. We show how to construct and decode \ac{LILRS} codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

The root finding step of the Guruswami-Rudra list decoding algorithm for folded Reed-Solomon codes is considered. It is shown that a multivariate generalization of the Roth-Ruckenstein algorithm can be used to implement it. This leads to an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Peter Trifonov

An interpolation-based decoding scheme for interleaved subspace codes is presented. The scheme can be used as a (not necessarily polynomial-time) list decoder as well as a probabilistic unique decoder. Both interpretations allow to decode…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Hannes Bartz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider data transmission over a network where each edge is an erasure channel and where the inner nodes transmit a random linear combination of their incoming information. We distinguish two channel models in this setting, the row and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann

List recovery of error-correcting codes has emerged as a fundamental notion with broad applications across coding theory and theoretical computer science. Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rohan Goyal , Venkatesan Guruswami

We present a novel iterative decoding algorithm for Reed-Muller (RM) codes, which takes advantage of a graph representation of the code. Vertices of the considered graph correspond to codewords, with two vertices being connected by an edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mikhail Kamenev