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Reed--Solomon error-correcting codes are ubiquitous across computer science and information theory, with applications in cryptography, computational complexity, communication and storage systems, and more. Most works on efficient error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chris Peikert , Alexandra Veliche Hostetler

We show that any q-ary code with sufficiently good distance can be randomly punctured to obtain, with high probability, a code that is list decodable up to radius $1 - 1/q - \epsilon$ with near-optimal rate and list sizes. Our results imply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Atri Rudra , Mary Wootters

This paper investigates the decoding of certain Gabidulin codes that were transmitted over a channel with space-symmetric errors. Space-symmetric errors are additive error matrices that have the property that their column and row spaces are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Thomas Jerkovits , Vladimir Sidorenko , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We address the problem of decoding Gabidulin codes beyond their unique error-correction radius. The complexity of this problem is of importance to assess the security of some rank-metric code-based cryptosystems. We propose an approach that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Julian Renner , Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger , Pierre Loidreau , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are prominent polynomial codes over finite fields, renowned for achieving list decoding capacity. These codes have found a wide range of applications beyond the traditional scope…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Itzhak Tamo

This paper shows that there exist Reed--Solomon (RS) codes, over \black{exponentially} large finite fields \black{in the code length}, that are combinatorially list-decodable well beyond the Johnson radius, in fact almost achieving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo , Mary Wootters

A class of linear block codes which simultaneously generalizes Gabidulin codes and a class of skew cyclic codes is defined. For these codes, both a Hartmann-Tzeng-like bound and a Roos-like bound, with respect to their rank distance, are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 José Manuel Muñoz

(Partial) Unit Memory ((P)UM) codes provide a powerful possibility to construct convolutional codes based on block codes in order to achieve a high decoding performance. In this contribution, a construction based on Gabidulin codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Antonia Wachter , Vladimir Sidorenko , Martin Bossert , Victor Zyablov

We show how Gabidulin codes can be decoded via parametrization by using interpolation modules over the ring of linearized polynomials with composition. Our decoding algorithm computes a list of message words that correspond to all closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Anna-Lena Trautmann , Margreta Kuijper

Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes form an important family of maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD) codes that generalize both Reed--Solomon codes and Gabidulin codes. In this paper we study the equivalence problem for LRS codes and determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jonathan Mannaert , Marta Messia , Ferdinando Zullo

We study Reed--Solomon codes over arbitrary fields, inspired by several recent papers dealing with Gabidulin codes over fields of characteristic zero. Over the field of rational numbers, we derive bounds on the coefficient growth during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Carmen Sippel , Cornelia Ott , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

An improved Singleton-type upper bound is presented for the list decoding radius of linear codes, in terms of the code parameters [n,k,d] and the list size L. L-MDS codes are then defined as codes that attain this bound (under a slightly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ron M. Roth

The list-decodable code has been an active topic in theoretical computer science.There are general results about the list-decodability to the Johnson radius and the list-decoding capacity theorem. In this paper we show that rates,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Hao Chen

In this work we present a new criterion to check if a given rank-metric code is a maximum rank distance (MRD) code. Moreover, we derive a criterion to check if a given MRD code is a generalized Gabidulin code. We then use these results to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Kyle Marshall

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

Reed-Solomon codes and Gabidulin codes have maximum Hamming distance and maximum rank distance, respectively. A general construction using skew polynomials, called skew Reed-Solomon codes, has already been introduced in the literature. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

For codes equipped with metrics such as Hamming metric, symbol pair metric or cover metric, the Johnson bound guarantees list-decodability of such codes. That is, the Johnson bound provides a lower bound on the list-decoding radius of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are variants of Reed-Solomon codes, known for their optimal list decoding radius. We show explicit FRS codes with rate $R$ that can be list decoded up to radius $1-R-\epsilon$ with lists of size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shashank Srivastava

This article discusses the decoding of Gabidulin codes and shows how to extend the usual decoder to any supercode of a Gabidulin code at the cost of a significant decrease of the decoding radius. Using this decoder, we provide polynomial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Maxime Bombar , Alain Couvreur