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We decode Reed-Solomon codes using soft information provided at the receiver. The Extended Euclidean Algorithm (EEA) is considered as an initial step to obtain an intermediate result. The final decoding result is obtained by interpolating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Mostafa Hosni Mohamed , Johan S. R. Nielsen , Martin Bossert

In this paper we devise a rational curve fitting algorithm and apply it to the list decoding of Reed-Solomon and BCH codes. The proposed list decoding algorithms exhibit the following significant properties. 1 The algorithm corrects up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-10 Yingquan Wu

New soft- and hard decision decoding algorithms are presented for general Reed-Muller codes $\left\{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{m}{r}\right\} $ of length $2^{m}$ and distance $2^{m-r}$. We use Plotkin $(u,u+v)$ construction and decompose code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ilya Dumer

This paper introduces OPTIMUM-DERAM, a highly consistent, scalable, secure, and decentralized shared memory solution. Traditional distributed shared memory implementations offer multi-object support by multi-threading a single object memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nicolas Nicolaou , Kishori M. Konwar , Moritz Grundei , Aleksandr Bezobchuk , Muriel Médard , Sriram Vishwanath

Massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) promises significant improvements in spectral efficiency compared to small-scale MIMO. Typical massive MU-MIMO base-station (BS) designs rely on centralized linear data detectors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Kaipeng Li , Oscar Castaneda , Charles Jeon , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer

Distributed learning has many computational benefits but is vulnerable to attacks from a subset of devices transmitting incorrect information. This paper investigates Byzantine-resilient algorithms in a decentralized setting, where devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

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

Network transfer and disk read are the most time consuming operations in the repair process for node failures in erasure-code-based distributed storage systems. Recent developments on Reed-Solomon codes, the most widely used erasure codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Hien Chu

We study the problem of efficiently computing on encoded data. More specifically, we study the question of low-bandwidth computation of functions $F:\mathbb{F}^k \to \mathbb{F}$ of some data $x \in \mathbb{F}^k$, given access to an encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Noah Shutty , Mary Wootters

We propose application-layer coding schemes to recover lost data in delay-sensitive uplink (sensor-to-gateway) communications in the Internet of Things. Built on an approach that combines retransmissions and forward erasure correction, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Vatsalya Chaubey , Siddhartha S. Borkotoky

Network coding increases throughput and is robust against failures and erasures. However, since it allows mixing of information within the network, a single corrupted packet generated by a Byzantine attacker can easily contaminate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-27 MinJi Kim , Muriel Medard , Joao Barros

Decentralized optimization and communication compression have exhibited their great potential in accelerating distributed machine learning by mitigating the communication bottleneck in practice. While existing decentralized algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Yao Li , Xiaorui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Ming Yan , Kun Yuan

This paper presents a random coding scheme with which two nodes can exchange information with guaranteed integrity over a two-way Byzantine relay. This coding scheme is employed to obtain an inner bound on the capacity region with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Eric Graves , Tan Wong

Coding for distributed computing supports low-latency computation by relieving the burden of straggling workers. While most existing works assume a simple master-worker model, we consider a hierarchical computational structure consisting of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Hyegyeong Park , Kangwook Lee , Jy-yong Sohn , Changho Suh , Jaekyun Moon

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

Error-correcting codes are a method for representing data, so that one can recover the original information even if some parts of it were corrupted. The basic idea, which dates back to the revolutionary work of Shannon and Hamming about a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Noga Ron-Zewi

Decentralized bilevel optimization has received increasing attention recently due to its foundational role in many emerging multi-agent learning paradigms (e.g., multi-agent meta-learning and multi-agent reinforcement learning) over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Peiwen Qiu , Yining Li , Zhuqing Liu , Prashant Khanduri , Jia Liu , Ness B. Shroff , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Kurt Turck

To defend against Byzantine attacks in decentralized learning, most existing methods rely on robust aggregation rules to mitigate the influence of malicious machines. However, these strategies inherently introduce bias, leading to inexact…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-20 Siyuan Zhang , Chengde Qian , Xin Liu , Changliang Zou

The main decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are based on a bivariate interpolation step, which is expensive in time complexity. Lot of interpolation methods were proposed in order to decrease the complexity of this procedure, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Morgan Barbier

Bit sifting is an important step in the post-processing of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) whose function is to sift out the undetected original keys. The communication traffic of bit sifting has essential impact on the net secure key rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 Qiong Li , Dan Le , Xianyan Wu , Xiamu Niu , Hong Guo