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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

In this paper we devise a rational curve fitting algorithm and apply it to the list decoding of Reed-Solomon and BCH codes. The proposed list decoding algorithms exhibit the following significant properties. 1 The algorithm corrects up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-10 Yingquan Wu

Because of their importance in applications and their quite simple definition, Reed-Solomon codes can be explained in any introductory course on coding theory. However, decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are far from being simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Maria Bras-Amorós

In this paper, we first introduce the concept of elementary linear subspace, which has similar properties to those of a set of coordinates. Using this new concept, we derive properties of maximum rank distance (MRD) codes that parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

Reed Muller (RM) codes are known for their good minimum distance. One can use their structure to construct polar-like codes with good distance properties by choosing the information set as the rows of the polarization matrix with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Samet Gelincik , Philippe Mary , Anne Savard , Jean-Yves Baudais

A set of quantum error correcting codes based on classical Reed-Muller codes is described. The codes have parameters [[n,k,d]] = [[2^r, 2^r - C(r,t) - 2 sum_{i=0}^{t-1} C(r,i), 2^t + 2^{t-1} ]].

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrew Steane

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are a well-studied family of codes, known for achieving list decoding capacity. In this work, we give improved deterministic and randomized algorithms for list decoding FRS codes of rate $R$ up to radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Mursalin Habib , Shashank Srivastava

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

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

We obtain a technique to reduce the computational complexity associated with decoding of Hermitian codes. In particular, we propose a method to compute the error locations and values using an uni-variate error locator and an uni-variate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-12 Rachit Agarwal

Good quantum error-correcting codes that fulfill practical considerations, such as simple encoding circuits and efficient decoders, are essential for functional quantum information processing systems. Quantum polar codes satisfy some of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Keita Hidaka , Dina Abdelhadi , Ruediger Urbanke

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

We consider the problem of erasure/list decoding using certain classes of simplified decoders. Specifically, we assume a class of erasure/list decoders, such that a codeword is in the list if its likelihood is larger than a threshold. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

Error-correcting codes are one of the most fundamental objects in pseudorandomness, with applications in communication, complexity theory, and beyond. Codes are useful because of their ability to support decoding, which is the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shashank Srivastava

We show that the known list-decoding algorithms for univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes can be made to run in $\tilde{O}(n)$ time. Univariate multiplicity codes and FRS codes are natural variants of Reed-Solomon codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Rohan Goyal , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Ashutosh Shankar

Designing a practical, low complexity, close to optimal, channel decoder for powerful algebraic codes with short to moderate block length is an open research problem. Recently it has been shown that a feed-forward neural network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Eliya Nachmani , Elad Marciano , David Burshtein , Yair Be'ery

We introduce a new approach to proving that a sequence of deterministic linear codes achieves capacity on an erasure channel under maximum a posteriori decoding. Rather than relying on the precise structure of the codes our method exploits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Shrinivas Kudekar , Santhosh Kumar , Marco Mondelli , Henry D. Pfister , Eren Şaşoğlu , Rüdiger Urbanke

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

In this paper, we consider the Reed-Muller (RM) codes. For the first order RM code, we prove that it is unique in the sense that any linear code with the same length, dimension and minimum distance must be the first order RM code; For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-30 Yanling Chen , Han Vinck

This paper studies random-coding error exponents of randomised list decoding, in which the decoder randomly selects $L$ messages with probabilities proportional to the decoding metric of the codewords. The exponents (or bounds) are given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sheng Yang