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In this article, we study polymatroids that are representable by means of linear restricted rank-metric codes, namely, by subspaces of the space of alternating, symmetric, or Hermitian square matrices endowed with the rank metric. More…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Eimear Byrne , Giovanni Longobardi , and Rocco Trombetti

Multilinear representability extends classical linear representability of matroids by assigning subspaces, rather than vectors, to ground elements. This notion is closely related to almost affine codes. In this paper, we introduce and study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Gianira N. Alfarano , Sebastian Degen

It is well known that linear rank-metric codes give rise to q-polymatroids. Analogously to matroid theory one may ask whether a given q-polymatroid is representable by a rank-metric code. We provide an answer by presenting an example of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Benjamin Jany

A $q$-matroid is the analogue of a matroid which arises by replacing the finite ground set of a matroid with a finite-dimensional vector space over a finite field. These $q$-matroids are motivated by coding theory as the representable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Sebastian Degen , Lukas Kühne

We study a matrix-based notion of matroid representation over local commutative rings obtained by replacing linear independence with modular independence. This construction always defines an independence system, though not necessarily a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Koji Imamura , Keisuke Shiromoto

This article studies two notions of generalized matroid representations motivated by algorithmic information theory and cryptographic secret sharing. The first (entropic representability) involves discrete random variables, while the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Lukas Kühne , Geva Yashfe

This article is a survey of matroid theory aimed at algebraic geometers. Matroids are combinatorial abstractions of linear subspaces and hyperplane arrangements. Not all matroids come from linear subspaces; those that do are said to be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Eric Katz

We introduce a technique for establishing and amplifying gaps between parameters of network coding and index coding. The technique uses linear programs to establish separations between combinatorial and coding-theoretic parameters and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Anna Blasiak , Robert Kleinberg , Eyal Lubetzky

Network coding is studied when an adversary controls a subset of nodes in the network of limited quantity but unknown location. This problem is shown to be more difficult than when the adversary controls a given number of edges in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-15 Oliver Kosut , Lang Tong , David Tse

This paper considers vector network coding solutions based on rank-metric codes and subspace codes. The main result of this paper is that vector solutions can significantly reduce the required alphabet size compared to the optimal scalar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Tuvi Etzion , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas Georghiades

The index coding problem is a fundamental transmission problem which occurs in a wide range of multicast networks. Network coding over a large finite field size has been shown to be a theoretically efficient solution to the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Chuan Heng Foh , Jianfei Cai

Deep learning has received much attention lately due to the impressive empirical performance achieved by training algorithms. Consequently, a need for a better theoretical understanding of these problems has become more evident in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daniel Bienstock , Gonzalo Muñoz , Sebastian Pokutta

A matroid $M$ is an ordered pair $(E,I)$, where $E$ is a finite set called the ground set and a collection $I\subset 2^{E}$ called the independent sets which satisfy the conditions: (i) $\emptyset \in I$, (ii) $I'\subset I \in I$ implies…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Eun Jung Kim , Arnaud de Mesmay , Tillmann Miltzow

Vector linear network coding (LNC) is a generalization of the conventional scalar LNC, such that the data unit transmitted on every edge is an $L$-dimensional vector of data symbols over a base field GF($q$). Vector LNC enriches the choices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Qifu Tyler Sun , Xiaolong Yang , Keping Long , Xunrui Yin , Zongpeng Li

An index coding (IC) problem consisting of a server and multiple receivers with different side-information and demand sets can be equivalently represented using a fitting matrix. A scalar linear index code to a given IC problem is a matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Vamsi Krishna Gummadi , Ashok Choudhary , Prasad Krishnan

Fiber network modeling can be used for studying mechanical properties of paper. The individual fibers and the bonds in-between constitute a detailed representation of the material. However, detailed microscale fiber network models must be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Morgan Görtz , Gustav Kettil , Axel Målqvist , Andreas Mark , Fredrik Edelvik

In this study, we consider a class of linear matroid interdiction problems, where the feasible sets for the upper-level decision-maker (referred to as a leader) and the lower-level decision-maker (referred to as a follower) are induced by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

An optimal linear coding solution for index coding problem is established. Instead of network coding approach by focus on graph theoric and algebraic methods a linear coding program for solving both unicast and groupcast index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Pouya Pezeshkpour

Although algebraic matroids were discovered in the 1930s, interest in them was largely dormant until their recent use in applications of algebraic geometry. Because nonlinear algebra is computationally challenging, it is easier to work with…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Zvi Rosen , Jessica Sidman , Louis Theran