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Polar codes asymptotically achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels, yet their error-correcting performance under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding for short and moderate length codes is worse than that of other modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

List recovery is a fundamental task for error-correcting codes, vastly generalizing unique decoding from worst-case errors and list decoding. Briefly, one is given ''soft information'' in the form of input lists S_1,...,S_n of bounded size,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Nicolas Resch , S. Venkitesh

A recent work of Goyal, Harsha, Kumar and Shankar gave nearly linear time algorithms for the list decoding of Folded Reed-Solomon codes (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes up to list decoding capacity in their natural setting of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Rohan Goyal , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Ashutosh Shankar

Reed-Muller codes are some of the oldest and most widely studied error-correcting codes, of interest for both their algebraic structure as well as their many algorithmic properties. A recent beautiful result of Saptharishi, Shpilka and Volk…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Swastik Kopparty , Aditya Potukuchi

This paper discusses a stylized communications problem where one wishes to transmit a real-valued signal x in R^n (a block of n pieces of information) to a remote receiver. We ask whether it is possible to transmit this information reliably…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Emmanuel J. Candes , Paige A. Randall

We study coding schemes for error correction in interactive communications. Such interactive coding schemes simulate any $n$-round interactive protocol using $N$ rounds over an adversarial channel that corrupts up to $\rho N$ transmissions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

In adversarial settings, where attackers can deliberately and strategically corrupt quantum data, standard quantum error correction reaches its limits. It can only correct up to half the code distance and must output a unique answer.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Rahul Arvind , Nikhil Bansal , Dax Enshan Koh , Tobias Haug , Kishor Bharti

We study list-recoverability of random linear codes over small fields, both from errors and from erasures. We consider codes of rate $\epsilon$-close to capacity, and aim to bound the dependence of the output list size $L$ on $\epsilon$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Dean Doron , Jonathan Mosheiff , Nicolas Resch , João Ribeiro

In this paper, we establish a lemma in algebraic coding theory that frequently appears in the encoding and decoding of, e.g., Reed-Solomon codes, algebraic geometry codes, and affine variety codes. Our lemma corresponds to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hajime Matsui

The question of list decoding error-correcting codes over finite fields (under the Hamming metric) has been widely studied in recent years. Motivated by the similar discrete structure of linear codes and point lattices in R^N, and their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Elena Grigorescu , Chris Peikert

A convolutional code $\C$ over $\ZZ[D]$ is a $\ZZ[D]$-submodule of $\ZZN[D]$ where $\ZZ[D]$ stands for the ring of polynomials with coefficients in $\ZZ$. In this paper, we study the list decoding problem of these codes when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Julia Lieb , Diego Napp , Raquel Pinto

Efficient and high-performance quantum error correction is essential for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. Low-depth random circuits offer a promising approach to identifying effective and practical encoding strategies. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Guoding Liu , Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

Construction of error-correcting codes achieving a designated minimum distance parameter is a central problem in coding theory. In this work, we study a very simple construction of binary linear codes that correct a given number of errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mahdi Cheraghchi , João Ribeiro

This paper considers '$\delta$-almost Reed-Muller codes', i.e., linear codes spanned by evaluations of all but a $\delta$ fraction of monomials of degree at most $d$. It is shown that for any $\delta > 0$ and any $\varepsilon>0$, there…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Emmanuel Abbe , Jan Hązła , Ido Nachum

We study the list decodability of different ensembles of codes over the real alphabet under the assumption of an omniscient adversary. It is a well-known result that when the source and the adversary have power constraints $ P $ and $ N $…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yihan Zhang , Shashank Vatedka

MDS codes play a central role in practice due to their broad applications. To date, most known MDS codes are generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, leaving codes that are not equivalent to GRS codes comparatively less understood. Studying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Runtian Zhu , Lingfei Jin

We consider the problem of optimally decoding a quantum error correction code -- that is to find the optimal recovery procedure given the outcomes of partial "check" measurements on the system. In general, this problem is NP-hard. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Poulin

We describe a new class of list decodable codes based on Galois extensions of function fields and present a list decoding algorithm. These codes are obtained as a result of folding the set of rational places of a function field using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-12 Ming-Deh Huang , Anand Kumar Narayanan

This paper introduces a new approach to proving that a sequence of deterministic linear codes achieves capacity on an erasure channel under maximum a posteriori decoding. Rather than relying on the precise structure of the codes, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Santhosh Kumar , Henry D. Pfister

The question whether RM codes are capacity-achieving is a long-standing open problem in coding theory that was recently answered in the affirmative for transmission over erasure channels [1], [2]. Remarkably, the proof does not rely on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Shrinivas Kudekar , Santhosh Kumar , Marco Mondelli , Henry D. Pfister , Rüdiger Urbanke