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Interleaved Reed-Solomon codes admit efficient decoding algorithms which correct burst errors far beyond half the minimum distance in the random errors regime, e.g., by computing a common solution to the Key Equation for each Reed-Solomon…

A simple algorithm for decoding both errors and erasures of Reed-Solomon codes is described.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Sergei V. Fedorenko

Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes are a natural affine-invariant family of error-correcting codes which generalize Reed-Muller codes. They were known to have efficient local-testing and local-decoding algorithms (comparable to the known algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Alan Guo , Swastik Kopparty

In the last years, Regev's reduction has been used as a quantum algorithmic tool for providing a quantum advantage for variants of the decoding problem. Following this line of work, the authors of [JSW+24] have recently come up with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 André Chailloux , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We present a construction of subspace codes along with an efficient algorithm for list decoding from both insertions and deletions, handling an information-theoretically maximum fraction of these with polynomially small rate. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Venkatesan Guruswami , Srivatsan Narayanan , Carol Wang

The sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a communication setting in which a sender transmits a codeword and the receiver observes K independent noisy versions of this codeword. In this work, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shubhransh Singhvi , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

In this paper, we present a new basis of polynomial over finite fields of characteristic two and then apply it to the encoding/decoding of Reed-Solomon erasure codes. The proposed polynomial basis allows that $h$-point polynomial evaluation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung , Yunghsiang S. Han

Reed-Muller (RM) codes are conjectured to achieve the capacity of any binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channel, and are observed to have a comparable performance to that of random codes in terms of scaling laws. On the negative side,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Xiyang Liu , Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Hessam Mahdavifar , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

For Reed-Solomon codes, the key equation relates the syndrome polynomial---computed from the parity check matrix and the received vector---to two unknown polynomials, the locator and the evaluator. The roots of the locator polynomial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Michael E. O'Sullivan , Maria Bras-Amorós

This article is focused on some variations of Reed-Muller codes that yield improvements to the rate for a prescribed decoding performance under the Berlekamp-Massey-Sakata algorithm with majority voting. Explicit formulas for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Maria Bras-Amorós , Michael E. O'Sullivan

Error-correcting codes are combinatorial objects designed to cope with the problem of reliable transmission of information on a noisy channel. A fundamental problem in coding theory and practice is to efficiently decode the received word…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Haojie Gu , Jun Zhang

We propose a novel soft-aided hard-decision decoding algorithm for general product-like codes. It achieves error correcting performance similar to that of a soft-decision turbo decoder for staircase and OFEC codes, while maintaining a low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Lukas Rapp , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

We present a new decoding algorithm based on error locating pairs and correcting an amount of errors exceeding half the minimum distance. When applied to Reed--Solomon or algebraic geometry codes, the algorithm is a reformulation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Alain Couvreur , Isabella Panaccione

Motivated by recent developments in coding theory, particular in list-decoding, we introduce a new error model which we call semi-adversarial errors. This error model bridges between fully random errors and fully adversarial errors by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

Practical constructions of lossless distributed source codes (for the Slepian-Wolf problem) have been the subject of much investigation in the past decade. In particular, near-capacity achieving code designs based on LDPC codes have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Shizheng Li , Aditya Ramamoorthy

A transform that enables generator-matrix-based Reed-Solomon (RS) coded data to be recovered under interpolation-based list decoding is presented. The transform matrix needs to be computed only once and the transformation of an element from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jianwen Zhang , Marc A. Armand

Soft-decision decoding is NP-hard problem of great interest to developers of communication system. We present an efficient soft-decision decoding of linear block codes based on compact genetic algorithm (cGA) and compare its performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Ahmed Azouaoui , Ahlam Berkani , Mostafa Belkasmi

Recently, a new polynomial basis over binary extension fields was proposed such that the fast Fourier transform (FFT) over such fields can be computed in the complexity of order $\mathcal{O}(n\lg(n))$, where $n$ is the number of points…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sian-Jheng Lin , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Yunghsiang S. Han

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are widely used to correct errors in storage systems. Finding the error locator polynomial is one of the key steps in the error correction procedure of RS codes. Modular Approach (MA) is an effective algorithm for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou