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We consider the decoding of rank metric codes assuming the error matrix is symmetric. We prove two results. First, for rates $<1/2$ there exists a broad family of rank metric codes for which any symmetric error pattern, even of maximal rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Alain Couvreur

We study code-to-metric regression: predicting numeric outcomes of code executions, a challenging task due to the open-ended nature of programming languages. While prior methods have resorted to heavy and domain-specific feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yash Akhauri , Xingyou Song , Arissa Wongpanich , Bryan Lewandowski , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

We investigate the maximum cardinality and the mathematical structure of error-correcting codes endowed with the Kendall-$\tau$ metric. We establish an averaging bound for the cardinality of a code with prescribed minimum distance, discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Benjamin Jany , Alberto Ravagnani

Local rank modulation scheme was suggested recently for representing information in flash memories in order to overcome drawbacks of rank modulation. For $s\leq t\leq n$ with $s|n$, $(s,t,n)$-LRM scheme is a local rank modulation scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Michal Horovitz

Rank modulation has been recently proposed as a scheme for storing information in flash memories. While rank modulation has advantages in improving write speed and endurance, the current encoding approach is based on the "push to the top"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-16 Eyal En Gad , Anxiao , Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

This paper investigates the decoding of certain Gabidulin codes that were transmitted over a channel with space-symmetric errors. Space-symmetric errors are additive error matrices that have the property that their column and row spaces are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Thomas Jerkovits , Vladimir Sidorenko , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The performance of an error correcting code is evaluated by its error probability, rate, and en/decoding complexity. The performance of a series of codes is evaluated by, as the block lengths approach infinity, whether their error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hsin-Po Wang

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) for chain-of-thought reasoning presents a significant challenge: supervised fine-tuning on a single "golden" rationale hurts generalization as it penalizes equally valid alternatives, whereas…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Mingye Zhu , Yi Liu , Zheren Fu , Quan Wang , Yongdong Zhang

In order to achieve fault tolerance, highly reliable system often require the ability to detect errors as soon as they occur and prevent the speared of erroneous information throughout the system. Thus, the need for codes capable of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Muzhir Al-Ani , Qeethara Al-Shayea

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (indel) errors. While most constructions for the indel model are nonlinear, linear codes offer compact representations, efficient encoding, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Roee Gross , Roni Con , Eitan Yaakobi

We study the combination of two recent coding approaches, in the context of DNA based data storage. Composite DNA alphabets leverage properties of the DNA synthesis and sequencing process. A composite symbol does not represent a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tomer Cohen , Eitan Yaakobi , Zohar Yakhini

The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem that is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Giuseppe Durisi , Thomas Jerkovits , Gianluigi Liva , William Ryan , Brian Stein , Fabian Steiner

Matrix multiplication over the real field constitutes a foundational operation in the training of deep learning models, serving as a computational cornerstone for both forward and backward propagation processes. However, the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

Short-length Reed--Muller codes under majority-logic decoding are of particular importance for efficient hardware implementations in real-time and embedded systems. This paper significantly improves Chen's two-step majority-logic decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Peter Hauck , Michael Huber , Juliane Bertram , Dennis Brauchle , Sebastian Ziesche

Sum-rank metric codes are a natural extension of both linear block codes and rank-metric codes. They have several applications in information theory, including multishot network coding and distributed storage systems. The aim of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Elisa Gorla , Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Flavio Salizzoni

Compared with classical block codes, efficient list decoding of rank-metric codes seems more difficult. Although the list decodability of random rank-metric codes and limits to list decodability have been completely determined, little work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan

Spinal codes is a new family of capacity-achieving rateless codes that has been shown to achieve better rate performance compared to Raptor codes, Strider codes, and rateless Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. This correspondence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Xiaomeng Chen , Sumei Sun

We introduce a model for a stacked quantum memory made with multi-qubit cells, inspired by multi-level flash cells in classical solid-state drive, and we design quantum error correction codes for this model by generalizing rank-metric codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Nicolas Delfosse , Gilles Zémor

Block codes, which correct asymmetric errors with limited-magnitude, are studied. These codes have been applied recently for error correction in flash memories. The codes will be represented by lattices and the constructions will be based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Sarit Buzaglo , Tuvi Etzion

This paper presents encoding and decoding algorithms for several families of optimal rank metric codes whose codes are in restricted forms of symmetric, alternating and Hermitian matrices. First, we show the evaluation encoding is the right…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wrya K. Kadir , Chunlei Li , Ferdinando Zullo