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Erasure coding has been recognized as a powerful method to mitigate delays due to slow or straggling nodes in distributed systems. This work shows that erasure coding of data objects can flexibly handle skews in the request rates. Coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mehmet Aktas , Gauri Joshi , Swanand Kadhe , Fatemeh Kazemi , Emina Soljanin

In this work we consider the list-decodability and list-recoverability of arbitrary $q$-ary codes, for all integer values of $q\geq 2$. A code is called $(p,L)_q$-list-decodable if every radius $pn$ Hamming ball contains less than $L$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan , Yihan Zhang

The problem of finding quantum error-correcting codes is transformed into the problem of finding additive codes over the field GF(4) which are self-orthogonal with respect to a certain trace inner product. Many new codes and new bounds are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. R. Calderbank , E. M Rains , P. W. Shor , N. J. A. Sloane

In this work, we introduce maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability. We consider locally repairable codes (LRCs) where certain subsets of $ t $ symbols belong each to $ N $ local repair sets, which are pairwise disjoint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , V. Lalitha

We derive new bounds for the condition number of kernel matrices, which we then use to enhance existing non-asymptotic test error bounds for kernel ridgeless regression (KRR) in the over-parameterized regime for a fixed input dimension. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Tin Sum Cheng , Aurelien Lucchi , Anastasis Kratsios , David Belius

We study codes that can correct backtracking errors during nanopore sequencing. In this channel, a sequence of length $n$ over an alphabet of size $q$ is being read by a sliding window of length $\ell$, where from each window we obtain only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wenjun Yu , Zuo Ye , Moshe Schwartz

We introduce a family of balanced locally repairable codes (BLRCs) $[n, k, d]$ for arbitrary values of $n$, $k$ and $d$. Similar to other locally repairable codes (LRCs), the presented codes are suitable for applications that require a low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Katina Kralevska , Danilo Gligoroski , Harald Øverby

We consider $(n,k,l)$ MDS codes of length $n$, dimension $k$, and subpacketization $l$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}$. A codeword of such a code consists of $n$ column-vectors of length $l$ over $\mathbb{F}$, with the property that any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ameera Chowdhury , Alexander Vardy

Coherent network error correction is the error-control problem in network coding with the knowledge of the network codes at the source and sink nodes. With respect to a given set of local encoding kernels defining a linear network code, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Shenghao Yang , Raymond W. Yeung , Chi-Kin Ngai

In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

MDS codes are erasure-correcting codes that can correct the maximum number of erasures for a given number of redundancy or parity symbols. If an MDS code has $r$ parities and no more than $r$ erasures occur, then by transmitting all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

We study the Inexact Restoration framework with random models for minimizing functions whose evaluation is subject to errors. We propose a constrained formulation that includes well-known stochastic problems and an algorithm applicable when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Benedetta Morini , Simone Rebegoldi

This paper presents new upper bounds on the rate of linear $k$-hash codes in $\mathbb{F}_q^n$, $q\geq k$, that is, codes with the property that any $k$ distinct codewords are all simultaneously distinct in at least one coordinate.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Stefano Della Fiore , Marco Dalai

Function-correcting codes are a class of codes designed to protect the function evaluation of a message against errors whose key advantage is the reduced redundancy. In this paper, we extend function-correcting codes from binary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qingfeng Xia , Hongwei Liu , Bocong Chen

In coding theory, a common question is to understand the threshold rates of various local properties of codes, such as their list decodability and list recoverability. A recent work Levi, Mosheiff, and Shagrithaya (FOCS 2025) gave a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

Codes defined on graphs and their properties have been subjects of intense recent research. On the practical side, constructions for capacity-approaching codes are graphical. On the theoretical side, codes on graphs provide several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-15 Srimathy Srinivasan , Andrew Thangaraj

We study the exact and optimal repair of multiple failures in codes for distributed storage. More particularly, we provide an explicit construction of exact minimum bandwidth coordinated regenerating codes (MBCR) for n=d+t,k,d >= k,t >= 1.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Steve Jiekak , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

In this paper, the repair problem for erasures beyond locality in locally repairable codes is explored under a practical system setting, where a rack-aware storage system consists of racks, each containing a few parity checks. This is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Han Cai , Ying Miao , Moshe Schwartz , Xiaohu Tang

In a {\em locally recoverable} or {\em repairable} code, any symbol of a codeword can be recovered by reading only a small (constant) number of other symbols. The notion of local recoverability is important in the area of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Viveck Cadambe , Arya Mazumdar

Fractional repetition (FR) codes is a family of codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that allow uncoded exact repairs with minimum repair bandwidth. In this work, we consider a bound on the maximum amount of data that can be stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion