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Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error correcting codes that admit efficient decoding of individual message symbols without decoding the entire message. Unfortunately, known LDC constructions offer a sub-optimal trade-off between rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeremiah Blocki , Justin Zhang

We show that locally repairable codes (LRCs) can be list decoded efficiently beyond the Johnson radius for a large range of parameters by utilizing the local error correction capabilities. The new decoding radius is derived and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

An $(r, \delta)$-locally repairable code ($(r, \delta)$-LRC for short) was introduced by Prakash et al. \cite{Prakash2012} for tolerating multiple failed nodes in distributed storage systems, which was a generalization of the concept of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jing Qiu , Dabin Zheng , Fang-Wei Fu

Locally repairable codes have become a key instrument in large-scale distributed storage systems. This paper focuses on the construction of locally repairable codes with $(r,\delta)$-locality that achieve the equality in the Singleton-type…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Gaojun Luo , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

A code is said to be a $r$-local locally repairable code (LRC) if each of its coordinates can be repaired by accessing at most $r$ other coordinates. When some of the $r$ coordinates are also erased, the $r$-local LRC can not accomplish the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Jie Hao , Fang-Wei Fu

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) problem has recently attracted a significant interest in the information-theory community. In this problem, a user wants to privately download one or more messages belonging to a database with copies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Swanand Kadhe , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

This paper presents a new alphabet-dependent bound for codes with hierarchical locality. Then, the complete list of possible localities is derived for a class of codes obtained by deleting specific columns from a Simplex code. This list is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Matthias Grezet , Camilla Hollanti

We study monomial-Cartesian codes (MCCs) which can be regarded as $(r,\delta)$-locally recoverable codes (LRCs). These codes come with a natural bound for their minimum distance and we determine those giving rise to $(r,\delta)$-optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Carlos Galindo , Fernando Hernando , Helena Martín-Cruz

Linear erasure codes with local repairability are desirable for distributed data storage systems. An [n, k, d] code having all-symbol (r, \delta})-locality, denoted as (r, {\delta})a, is considered optimal if it also meets the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Wentu Song , Son Hoang Dau , Chau Yuen , Tiffany Jing Li

Spatially-Coupled (SC)-LDPC codes are known to have outstanding error-correction performance and low decoding latency. Whereas previous works on LDPC and SC-LDPC codes mostly take either an asymptotic or a finite-length design approach, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto , Lara Dolecek

In this paper we investigate bounds on rate and minimum distance of codes with $t$ availability. We present bounds on minimum distance of a code with $t$ availability that are tighter than existing bounds. For bounds on rate of a code with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

Classical locally recoverable codes (LRCs) have become indispensable in distributed storage systems. They provide efficient recovery in terms of localized errors. Quantum LRCs have very recently been introduced for their potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Gaojun Luo , Bocong Chen , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

In general, array codes consist of $m\times n$ arrays and in many cases, the arrays satisfy parity constraints along lines of different slopes (generally with a toroidal topology). Such codes are useful for RAID type of architectures, since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Mario Blaum , Steven R. Hetzler

Lifted Reed Solomon Codes (Guo, Kopparty, Sudan 2013) were introduced in the context of locally correctable and testable codes. They are multivariate polynomials whose restriction to any line is a codeword of a Reed-Solomon code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Ray Li , Mary Wootters

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) play a crucial role in mitigating data loss in large-scale distributed and cloud storage systems. This paper establishes a unified decomposition theorem for general optimal $(r,\delta)$-LRCs. Based on this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Kun Zhou , Meng Cao

In this paper, codes with locality for four erasures are considered. An upper bound on the rate of codes with locality with sequential recovery from four erasures is derived. The rate bound derived here is field independent. An optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-04 S. B. Balaji , K. P. Prasanth , P. Vijay Kumar

Existence of quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes whose minimal distance scales linearly with the number of qubits is a major open problem in quantum information. Its practical interest stems from the need to protect information in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Lior Eldar , Maris Ozols , Kevin F. Thompson

Minimum distance is an important parameter of a linear error correcting code. For improved performance of binary Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, we need to have the minimum distance grow fast with n, the codelength. However, the best…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have emerged as an important coding scheme in distributed storage systems (DSSs) with relatively low repair cost by accessing fewer non-failure nodes. Theoretical bounds and optimal constructions of LRCs have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia