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Compressed Sensing aims to capture attributes of a sparse signal using very few measurements. Cand\`{e}s and Tao showed that sparse reconstruction is possible if the sensing matrix acts as a near isometry on all $\boldsymbol{k}$-sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-18 Robert Calderbank , Stephen Howard , Sina Jafarpour

Partial-MDS (PMDS) codes are a family of locally repairable codes, mainly used for distributed storage. They are defined to be able to correct any pattern of $s$ additional erasures, after a given number of erasures per locality group have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Alessandro Neri

This paper studies the design of codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that enable local repair in the event of node failure. This paper presents locally repairable codes based on low degree multivariate polynomials. Its code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important consideration is the efficient repair of a failed node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

Distributed storage systems support failures of individual devices by the use of replication or erasure correcting codes. While erasure correcting codes offer a better storage efficiency than replication for similar fault tolerance, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Regenerating codes are a class of codes proposed for providing reliability of data and efficient repair of failed nodes in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we address the fundamental problem of handling errors and erasures during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , Kannan Ramchandran , P. Vijay Kumar

Expander graphs have been recently proposed to construct efficient compressed sensing algorithms. In particular, it has been shown that any $n$-dimensional vector that is $k$-sparse (with $k\ll n$) can be fully recovered using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-25 Sina Jafarpour , Weiyu Xu , Babak Hassibi , Robert Calderbank

In order to provide high data reliability, distributed storage systems disperse data with redundancy to multiple storage nodes. Regenerating codes is a new class of erasure codes to introduce redundancy for the purpose of improving the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

This paper presents flexible storage codes, a class of error-correcting codes that can recover information from a flexible number of storage nodes. As a result, one can make a better use of the available storage nodes in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Taiting Lu , Hamid Jafarkhani

In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total {\it repair bandwidth} required to exactly regenerate a storage node after a failure arises. This repair bandwidth depends on the structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Locally repairable codes with availability have become essential components in modern large-scale distributed cloud storage systems and numerous other applications. In this paper, we focus on the construction of locally repairable codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

Efficient and accurate decoding of quantum error-correcting codes is essential for fault-tolerant quantum computation, however, it is challenging due to the degeneracy of errors, the complex code topology, and the large space for logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Hanyan Cao , Feng Pan , Dongyang Feng , Yijia Wang , Pan Zhang

Retrieval over large codebases is a key component of modern LLM-based software engineering systems. Existing approaches predominantly rely on dense embedding models, while learned sparse retrieval (LSR) remains largely unexplored for code.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Simon Lupart , Maxime Louis , Thibault Formal , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant

Erasure coding with wide stripes is increasingly adopted to reduce storage overhead in large-scale storage systems. However, existing Locally Repairable Codes (LRCs) exhibit structural limitations in this setting: inflated local groups…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fan Yu , Guodong Li , Si Wu , Weijun Fang , Sihuang Hu

This paper studies the problem of code symbol availability: a code symbol is said to have $(r, t)$-availability if it can be reconstructed from $t$ disjoint groups of other symbols, each of size at most $r$. For example, $3$-replication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Ankit Singh Rawat , Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sriram Vishwanath

We present a new family of quantum low-density parity-check codes, which we call radial codes, obtained from the lifted product of a specific subset of classical quasi-cyclic codes. The codes are defined using a pair of integers $(r,s)$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Thomas R. Scruby , Timo Hillmann , Joschka Roffe

In this paper, we prove the existence of capacity achieving linear codes with random binary sparse generating matrices. The results on the existence of capacity achieving linear codes in the literature are limited to the random binary codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-31 A. Makhdoumi Kakhaki , H. Karkeh Abadi , P. Pad , H. Saeedi , F. Marvasti , K. Alishahi

Constant-rate low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are promising candidates for constructing efficient fault-tolerant quantum memories. However, if physical gates are subject to geometric-locality constraints, it becomes challenging to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher A. Pattison , Anirudh Krishna , John Preskill

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

We introduce a new ensemble of random bipartite graphs, which we term the `smearing ensemble', where each left node is connected to some number of consecutive right nodes. Such graphs arise naturally in the recovery of sparse wavelet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Kabir Chandrasekher , Orhan Ocal , Kannan Ramchandran