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We consider the quantum decoding problem. It consists in recovering a codeword given a superposition of noisy versions of this codeword. By measuring the superposition, we get back to the classical decoding problem. It appears for the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Agathe Blanvillain , André Chailloux , Jean-Pierre Tillich

List-decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes beyond the so called Johnson radius has been one of the main open questions since the work of Guruswami and Sudan. It is now known by the work of Rudra and Wootters, using techniques from high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

A collection of sets satisfies a $(\delta,\varepsilon)$-proximity gap with respect to some property if for every set in the collection, either (i) all members of the set are $\delta$-close to the property in (relative) Hamming distance, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Lenny Liu , Pranav Rajpal

The deep hole problem is a fundamental problem in coding theory, and it has many important applications in code constructions and cryptography. The deep hole problem of Reed-Solomon codes has gained a lot of attention. As a generalization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Haojie Gu , Nan Wang , Jun Zhang

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes over GF$(2^m)$ have traditionally been the most popular non-binary codes in almost all practical applications. The distance properties of RS codes result in excellent performance under hard-decision bounded-distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-06 Andrew Thangaraj , Safitha J Raj

We prove the following results concerning the list decoding of error-correcting codes: (i) We show that for \textit{any} code with a relative distance of $\delta$ (over a large enough alphabet), the following result holds for \textit{random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Atri Rudra , Steve Uurtamo

List decoding of codes can be seen as the generalization of unique decoding of codes While list decoding over finite fields has been extensively studied, extending these results to more general algebraic structures such as Galois rings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

An iterated refinement procedure for the Guruswami-Sudan list decoding algorithm for Generalised Reed-Solomon codes based on Alekhnovich's module minimisation is proposed. The method is parametrisable and allows variants of the usual list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Johan Sebastian Rosenkilde Nielsen , Alexander Zeh

The computational complexity of the partition, 0-1 subset sum, unbounded subset sum, 0-1 knapsack and unbounded knapsack problems and their multiple variants were studied in numerous papers in the past where all the weights and profits were…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Dominik Wojtczak

We convert, within polynomial-time and sequential processing, an NP-Complete Problem into a real-variable problem of minimizing a sum of Rational Linear Functions constrained by an Asymptotic-Linear-Program. The coefficients and constants…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Deepak Ponvel Chermakani

In this work, we study the computational complexity of the Minimum Distance Code Detection problem. In this problem, we are given a set of noisy codeword observations and we wish to find a code in a set of linear codes $\mathcal{C}$ of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Aris Filos-Ratsikas

We show that for every $k\in\mathbb{N}$ and $\varepsilon>0$, for large enough alphabet $R$, given a $k$-CSP with alphabet size $R$, it is NP-hard to distinguish between the case that there is an assignment satisfying at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Dor Minzer , Kai Zhe Zheng

We revisit the reduction of Cheng and Wan, which transforms instances of the discrete logarithm problem (DLOG) over finite fields into a decoding problem for Reed--Solomon codes, and study how Regev's reduction can be used to solve these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 M. Isabel Franco Garrido , André Chailloux

In this paper, we prove that with high probability, random Reed-Solomon codes approach the half-Singleton bound - the optimal rate versus error tradeoff for linear insdel codes - with linear-sized alphabets. More precisely, we prove that,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Roni Con , Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

The performance of algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes using bit-level soft information is investigated. Optimal multiplicity assignment strategies of algebraic soft-decision decoding with infinite cost are first studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

For the majority of the applications of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, hard decision decoding is based on syndromes. Recently, there has been renewed interest in decoding RS codes without using syndromes. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-08 Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan

We propose a new partial decoding algorithm for one-point Hermitian codes that can decode up to the same number of errors as the Guruswami--Sudan decoder. Simulations suggest that it has a similar failure probability as the latter one. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Sven Puchinger , Irene Bouw , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen

A canonical feature of the constraint satisfaction problems in NP is approximation hardness, where in the worst case, finding sufficient-quality approximate solutions is exponentially hard for all known methods. Fundamentally, the lack of…

We study the Telephone Broadcasting problem in graphs with restricted structure. Given a designated source in an undirected graph, the goal is to disseminate a message to all vertices in the minimum number of rounds, where in each round…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jeffrey Bringolf , Hovhannes A. Harutyunyan , Shahin Kamali , Seyed-Mohammad Seyed-Javadi

Power decoding, or "decoding by virtual interleaving", of Reed--Solomon codes is a method for unique decoding beyond half the minimum distance. We give a new variant of the Power decoding scheme, building upon the key equation of Gao. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Johan S. R. Nielsen