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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 give error bounds for the distance distribution of Reed-Muller codes, extending prior work on the distance distribution of Reed-Solomon codes. This is equivalent to the problem of counting multivariate polynomials over a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Neil Kolekar

The distance profiles of linear block codes can be employed to design variational coding scheme for encoding message with variational length and getting lower decoding error probability by large minimum Hamming distance. %, e.g. the design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Xiaogang Liu , Yuan Luo , Kenneth W. Shum

The question of list decoding error-correcting codes over finite fields (under the Hamming metric) has been widely studied in recent years. Motivated by the similar discrete structure of linear codes and point lattices in R^N, and their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Elena Grigorescu , Chris Peikert

Recursive list decoding of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, with moderate list size, is known to approach maximum-likelihood (ML) performance of short length $(\leq 256)$ RM codes. Recursive decoding employs the Plotkin construction to split the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mikhail Kamenev

Over a finite field $\F_q$ the $(n,d,q)$-Reed-Muller code is the code given by evaluations of $n$-variate polynomials of total degree at most $d$ on all points (of $\F_q^n$). The task of testing if a function $f:\F_q^n \to \F_q$ is close to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Noga Ron-Zewi , Madhu Sudan

Consider a binary linear code of length $N$, minimum distance $d_{\text{min}}$, transmission over the binary erasure channel with parameter $0 < \epsilon < 1$ or the binary symmetric channel with parameter $0 < \epsilon < \frac12$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Hamed Hassani , Shrinivas Kudekar , Or Ordentlich , Yury Polyanskiy , Rüdiger Urbanke

Insertion-deletion codes (insdel codes for short) play an important role in synchronization error correction. The higher the minimum insdel distance, the more insdel errors the code can correct. Haeupler and Shahrasbi established the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Bocong Chen , Guanghui Zhang

In coding theory, the problem of list recovery asks one to find all codewords $c$ of a given code $C$ which such that at least $1-\rho$ fraction of the symbols of $c$ lie in some predetermined set of $\ell$ symbols for each coordinate of…

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

A $\lambda$-fold $r$-packing (multiple radius-$r$ covering) in a Hamming metric space is a code $C$ such that the radius-$r$ balls centered in $C$ cover each vertex of the space by not more (not less, respectively) than $\lambda$ times. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Denis S. Krotov , Vladimir N. Potapov

Recently, codes in the sum-rank metric attracted attention due to several applications in e.g. multishot network coding, distributed storage and quantum-resistant cryptography. The sum-rank analogs of Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

MDS codes have diverse practical applications in communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and optimal error-correcting capability. In this paper, we focus on a class of linear codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yansheng Wu , Ziling Heng , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

We study the list-decoding problem of alternant codes, with the notable case of classical Goppa codes. The major consideration here is to take into account the size of the alphabet, which shows great influence on the list-decoding radius.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-17 Daniel Augot , Morgan Barbier , Alain Couvreur

Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for encoding data, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Michael O'Sullivan , Diego Ruano

Subspace codes and rank-metric codes can be used to correct errors and erasures in network, with linear network coding. Subspace codes were introduced by Koetter and Kschischang to correct errors and erasures in networks where topology is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

BiD codes, which are a new family of algebraic codes of length $3^m$, achieve the erasure channel capacity under bit-MAP decoding and offer asymptotically larger minimum distance than Reed-Muller (RM) codes. In this paper we propose fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Devansh Jain , Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan

First- and second-order Reed-Muller (RM(1) and RM(2), respectively) codes are two fundamental error-correcting codes which arise in communication as well as in probabilistically-checkable proofs and learning. In this paper, we take the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-16 A. R. Calderbank , Anna C. Gilbert , Martin J. Strauss

A low-complexity tree search approach is presented that achieves the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding performance of Reed-Muller (RM) codes. The proposed approach generates a bit-flipping tree that is traversed to find the ML decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Warren J. Gross , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

A set of linearly constrained permutation matrices are proposed for constructing a class of permutation codes. Making use of linear constraints imposed on the permutation matrices, we can formulate a minimum Euclidian distance decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tadashi Wadayama , Manabu Hagiwara