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List decoding of Hermitian codes is reformulated to allow an efficient and simple algorithm for the interpolation step. The algorithm is developed using the theory of Groebner bases of modules. The computational complexity of the algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Kwankyu Lee , Michael E. O'Sullivan

We propose an efficient algorithm to find a Reed-Solomon (RS) codeword at a distance within the covering radius of the code from any point in its ambient Hamming space. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first attempt of its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Samin Riasat , Hessam Mahdavifar

An algebraic soft-decision decoder for Hermitian codes is presented. We apply Koetter and Vardy's soft-decision decoding framework, now well established for Reed-Solomon codes, to Hermitian codes. First we provide an algebraic foundation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-01 Kwankyu Lee , Michael E. O'Sullivan

Traditionally, multi-trial error/erasure decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on Bounded Minimum Distance (BMD) decoders with an erasure option. Such decoders have error/erasure tradeoff factor L=2, which means that an error is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian Senger , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Martin Bossert , Victor V. Zyablov

The interpolation step in the Guruswami-Sudan algorithm is a bivariate interpolation problem with multiplicities commonly solved in the literature using either structured linear algebra or basis reduction of polynomial lattices. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Muhammad F. I. Chowdhury , Claude-Pierre Jeannerod , Vincent Neiger , Eric Schost , Gilles Villard

The interpolation step of Guruswami and Sudan's list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes poses the problem of finding the minimal polynomial of an ideal with respect to a certain monomial order. An efficient algorithm that solves the problem is…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-12-11 Kwankyu Lee , Michael E. O'Sullivan

Folded Reed-Solomon codes, introduced by Guruswami and Rudra in 2007, have been shown to achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate of a code and the error-correction radius. In 2024, Bergamaschi,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gretchen L. Matthews , Julia Shapiro

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

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

A novel permutation decoding method for Reed-Muller codes is presented. The complexity and the error correction performance of the suggested permutation decoding approach are similar to that of the recursive lists decoder. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Mikhail Kamenev , Yulia Kameneva , Oleg Kurmaev , Alexey Maevskiy

We consider interpolation-based decoding of Reed-Solomon codes using the Guruswami-Sudan algorithm (GSA) and investigate the effects of two modification techniques for received vectors, i.e., the re-encoding map and the newly introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Christian Senger

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

We present an algorithm for systematic encoding of Hermitian codes. For a Hermitian code defined over GF(q^2), the proposed algorithm achieves a run time complexity of O(q^2) and is suitable for VLSI implementation. The encoder architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rachit Agarwal , Ralf Koetter , Emanuel Popovici

An iterative algorithm is presented for soft-input-soft-output (SISO) decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The proposed iterative algorithm uses the sum product algorithm (SPA) in conjunction with a binary parity check matrix of the RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

In this paper, a new algebraic soft-decision decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon code is presented. It is based on rational interpolation and the interpolation points are constructed by Berlekamp-Messay algorithm. Unlike the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Yuan Zhu , Siyun Tang

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 generalize the list decoding algorithm for Hermitian codes proposed by Lee and O'Sullivan based on Gr\"obner bases to general one-point AG codes, under an assumption weaker than one used by Beelen and Brander. By using the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Olav Geil , Ryutaroh Matsumoto , Diego Ruano

Analysis of the Berlekamp-Massey-Sakata algorithm for decoding one-point codes leads to two methods for improving code rate. One method, due to Feng and Rao, removes parity checks that may be recovered by their majority voting algorithm.…

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

This paper focuses on Hagiwara codes, which are quantum deletion-correcting codes constructed by the quantum Reed-Solomon codes. Although Hagiwara codes can correct composite errors consisting of deletions and insertions, an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Koki Sasaki , Ken Nakamura , Takayuki Nozaki

The Welch--Berlekamp approach for Reed--Solomon (RS) codes forms a bridge between classical syndrome--based decoding algorithms and interpolation--based list--decoding procedures for list size l=1. It returns the univariate error--locator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Alexander Zeh , Christian Senger