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In this work, we study the computational complexity of the Minimum Distance Code Detection problem. In this problem, we are given a set of noisy codeword observations and we wish to find a code in a set of linear codes $\mathcal{C}$ of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Aris Filos-Ratsikas

$ \newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}} \newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} \newcommand{\cc}[1]{\mathsf{#1}} \newcommand{\NP}{\cc{NP}} \newcommand{\problem}[1]{\mathrm{#1}} \newcommand{\BDD}{\problem{BDD}} $Bounded Distance Decoding $\BDD_{p,\alpha}$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Huck Bennett , Chris Peikert

The tensor product of one code endowed with the Hamming metric and one endowed with the rank metric is analyzed. This gives a code which naturally inherits the sum-rank metric. Specializing to the product of a cyclic code and a skew-cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Gianira N. Alfarano , F. J. Lobillo , Alessandro Neri , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider linear codes over a finite field of odd characteristic, derived from determinantal varieties, obtained from symmetric matrices of bounded ranks. A formula for the weight of a code word is derived. Using this formula, we have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Peter Beelen , Trygve Johnsen , Prasant Singh

The minimum constraint removal problem seeks to find the minimum number of constraints, i.e., obstacles, that need to be removed to connect a start to a goal location with a collision-free path. This problem is NP-hard and has been studied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

We prove the \textbf{NP}-hardness, using Karp reductions, of some problems related to the correlation polytope and its corresponding cone, spanned by all of the $n\times n$ rank-one matrices over $\{0,1\}$. The problems are: membership,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Alberto Caprara , Fabio Furini , Claudio Gentile , Leo Liberti , Andrea Lodi

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) often arise in relaxations of some NP-hard problems, and if the solution of the SDP obeys certain rank constraints, the relaxation will be tight. Decomposition methods based on chordal sparsity have already been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Biel Roig-Solvas , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Codes over permutations under the infinity norm have been recently suggested as a coding scheme for correcting limited-magnitude errors in the rank modulation scheme. Given such a code, we show that a simple relabeling operation, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Itzhak Tamo , Moshe Schwartz

In 2019, Trombetti and Zhou introduced a new family of $\mathbb{F}_{q^n}$-linear Maximum Rank Distance (MRD) codes over $\mathbb{F}_{q^{2n}}$. For such codes we propose a new syndrome-based decoding algorithm. It is well known that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chunlei Li , Angelica Piccirillo , Olga Polverino , Ferdinando Zullo

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 speed up existing decoding algorithms for three code classes in different metrics: interleaved Gabidulin codes in the rank metric, lifted interleaved Gabidulin codes in the subspace metric, and linearized Reed-Solomon codes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hannes Bartz , Thomas Jerkovits , Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde

We design a heuristic method, a genetic algorithm, for the computation of an upper bound of the minimum distance of a linear code over a finite field. By the use of the row reduced echelon form, we obtain a permutation encoding of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-20 José Gómez-Torrecillas , F. J. Lobillo , Gabriel Navarro

We consider linear-programming (LP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. While it is clear that one can use any general-purpose LP solver to solve the LP that appears in the decoding problem, we argue in this paper that the LP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Pascal O. Vontobel , Ralf Koetter

This paper presents a new decoding for polynomial residue codes, called the minimum degree-weighted distance decoding. The newly proposed decoding is based on the degree-weighted distance and different from the traditional minimum Hamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Li Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia

We consider decoding of vertically homogeneous interleaved sum-rank-metric codes with high interleaving order $s$, that are constructed by stacking $s$ codewords of a single constituent code. We propose a Metzner--Kapturowski-like decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Thomas Jerkovits , Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Rank-metric codes, defined as sets of matrices over a finite field with the rank distance, have gained significant attention due to their applications in network coding and connections to diverse mathematical areas. Initially studied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

In CPM 2017, Amir et al. introduce a problem, named \emph{approximate string cover} (\textbf{ACP}), motivated by many aplications including coding and automata theory, formal language theory, combinatorics and molecular biology. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Alexandru Popa , Andrei Tanasescu

The asymptotic rate vs. distance problem is a long-standing fundamental problem in coding theory. The best upper bound to date was given in 1977 and has received since then numerous proofs and interpretations. Here we provide a new,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Nati Linial , Elyassaf Loyfer

Restricted Syndrome Decoding (ResSD) is a variant of linear code decoding problem where each of the error's entries must belong to a fixed small set of values. This problem underlies the security of CROSS, a post-quantum signature scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Étienne Burle , Aleksei Udovenko

In this paper we study properties and invariants of matrix codes endowed with the rank metric, and relate them to the covering radius. We introduce new tools for the analysis of rank-metric codes, such as puncturing and shortening…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Eimear Byrne , Alberto Ravagnani