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Tensor codes are a generalisation of matrix codes. Such codes are defined as subspaces of order-r tensors for which the ambient space is endowed with the tensor-rank as a metric. A class of these codes was introduced by Roth, who also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eimear Byrne , Alain Couvreur , Lucien François

The noise model of deletions poses significant challenges in coding theory, with basic questions like the capacity of the binary deletion channel still being open. In this paper, we study the harder model of worst-case deletions, with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Venkatesan Guruswami , Carol Wang

We present a new decoding algorithm based on error locating pairs and correcting an amount of errors exceeding half the minimum distance. When applied to Reed--Solomon or algebraic geometry codes, the algorithm is a reformulation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Alain Couvreur , Isabella Panaccione

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are among the most ubiquitous codes due to their good parameters as well as efficient encoding and decoding procedures. However, RS codes suffer from having a fixed length. In many applications where the length is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Kyle Marshall , Michael E. O'Sullivan

We construct constant-sized ensembles of linear error-correcting codes over any fixed alphabet that can correct a given fraction of adversarial erasures at rates approaching the Singleton bound arbitrarily closely. We provide several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yeyuan Chen , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Nikhil Shagrithaya

We analyze the Guruswami--Sudan list decoding algorithm for Reed--Solomon codes over the complex field for sparse recovery in Compressed Sensing. We propose methods of stabilizing both the interpolation and the root-finding steps against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mostafa H. Mohamed , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

Gabidulin codes are the rank-metric analogs of Reed-Solomon codes and have a major role in practical error control for network coding. This paper presents new encoding and decoding algorithms for Gabidulin codes based on low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

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

Lifted Reed-Solomon and multiplicity codes are classes of codes, constructed from specific sets of $m$-variate polynomials. These codes allow for the design of high-rate codes that can recover every codeword or information symbol from many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Lukas Holzbaur , Rina Polyanskaya , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev , Eitan Yaakobi

Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

We propose a novel encoding scheme for algebraic codes such as codes on algebraic curves, multidimensional cyclic codes, and hyperbolic cascaded Reed-Solomon codes and present numerical examples. We employ the recurrence from the Gr\"obner…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Hajime Matsui , Seiichi Mita

The Reed-Muller (RM) code encoding $n$-variate degree-$d$ polynomials over ${\mathbb F}_q$ for $d < q$, with its evaluation on ${\mathbb F}_q^n$, has relative distance $1-d/q$ and can be list decoded from a $1-O(\sqrt{d/q})$ fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Lingfei Jin , Chaoping Xing

The performance of algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes using bit-level soft information is investigated. Optimal multiplicity assignment strategies of algebraic soft-decision decoding with infinite cost are first studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

Multivariate multiplicity codes (Kopparty, Saraf, and Yekhanin, J. ACM 2014) are linear codes where the codewords are described by evaluations of multivariate polynomials (with a degree bound) and their derivatives up to a fixed order, on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 S. Venkitesh

We show that the known list-decoding algorithms for univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes can be made to run in $\tilde{O}(n)$ time. Univariate multiplicity codes and FRS codes are natural variants of Reed-Solomon codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Rohan Goyal , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Ashutosh Shankar

In this paper, we revisit the Recursive Projection-Aggregation (RPA) decoder, of Ye and Abbe (2020), for Reed-Muller (RM) codes. Our main contribution is an explicit upper bound on the probability of incorrect decoding, using the RPA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 V. Arvind Rameshwar , V. Lalitha

Motivated by polymer-based data-storage platforms that use chains of binary synthetic polymers as the recording media and read the content via tandem mass spectrometers, we propose a new family of codes that allows for unique string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

The sum-rank metric is the mixture of the Hamming and rank metrics. The sum-rank metric found its application in network coding, locally repairable codes, space-time coding, and quantum-resistant cryptography. Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kuo Shang , Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

In this paper we consider a Metzner-Kapturowski-like decoding algorithm for high-order interleaved sum-rank-metric codes, offering a novel perspective on the decoding process through the concept of an error code. The error code, defined as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Thomas Jerkovits , Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz
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