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We construct the first (locally computable, approximately) locally list decodable codes with rate, efficiency, and error tolerance approaching the information theoretic limit, a core regime of interest for the complexity theoretic task of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yotam Dikstein , Max Hopkins , Russell Impagliazzo , Toniann Pitassi

We consider linear cyclic codes with the locality property, or locally recoverable codes (LRC codes). A family of LRC codes that generalizes the classical construction of Reed-Solomon codes was constructed in a recent paper by I. Tamo and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg , Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that have excellent performance thanks to the degrees of freedom they offer. An SC code is designed by partitioning a base matrix into components, the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bade Aksoy , Doğukan Özbayrak , Ahmed Hareedy

We study spatially coupled LDPC codes that allow access to sub-blocks much smaller than the full code block. Sub-block access is realized by a semi-global decoder that decodes a chosen target sub-block by only accessing the target, plus a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto

By a locally recoverable code (LRC), we will in this paper, mean a linear code in which a given code symbol can be recovered by taking a linear combination of at most $r$ other code symbols with $r << k$. A natural extension is to the local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 S. B. Balaji , Ganesh R. Kini , P. Vijay Kumar

In this paper we construct new optimal hierarchical locally recoverable codes. Our construction is based on a combination of the ideas of \cite{ballentine2019codes,sasidharan2015codes} with an algebraic number theoretical approach that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Austin Dukes , Giacomo Micheli , Vincenzo Pallozzi Lavorante

Locally decodable channel codes form a special class of error-correcting codes with the property that the decoder is able to reconstruct any bit of the input message from querying only a few bits of a noisy codeword. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Shao-Lun Huang , Muriel Medard , Yury Polyanskiy

A sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm is designed for nonsmooth optimization problems with upper-C^2 objective functions. Upper-C^2 functions are locally equivalent to difference-of-convex (DC) functions with smooth convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Jingyi Wang , Cosmin G. Petra

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error correcting codes which permit the recovery of any single message symbol with a low number of queries to the codeword (the locality). Traditional LDC tradeoffs between the rate, locality, and error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jeremiah Blocki , Justin Zhang

This work focuses on sequential locally recoverable codes (SLRCs), a special family of locally repairable codes, capable of correcting multiple code symbol erasures, which are commonly used for distributed storage systems. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Akram Baghban , Marc Newman , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Mehdi Ghiyasvand

Aiming to recover the data from several concurrent node failures, linear $r$-LRC codes with locality $r$ were extended into $(r, \delta)$-LRC codes with locality $(r, \delta)$ which can enable the local recovery of a failed node in case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Li Xu , Zhengchun Zhou , Jun Zhang , Sihem Mesnager

For binary $[n,k,d]$ linear locally repairable codes (LRCs), two new upper bounds on $k$ are derived. The first one applies to LRCs with disjoint local repair groups, for general values of $n,d$ and locality $r$, containing some previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang , Dongdai Lin

Several probabilistic models from high-dimensional statistics and machine learning reveal an intriguing --and yet poorly understood-- dichotomy. Either simple local algorithms succeed in estimating the object of interest, or even…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Zhou Fan , Andrea Montanari

A locally decodable code (LDC) C:{0,1}^k -> {0,1}^n is an error correcting code wherein individual bits of the message can be recovered by only querying a few bits of a noisy codeword. LDCs found a myriad of applications both in theory and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Tom Gur , Oded Lachish

Motivated by the construction of optimal locally repairable codes, we introduce the new finite geometric concept of a \emph{local arc} which is defined as a collection $\mathcal{S}$ of disjoint point sets $S_{i}$ in $\mathrm{PG}(2,q)$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Ferdinand Ihringer , Yue Zhou

In this paper, we propose new coupled codes constructed by overlapping circular spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes, which show better asymptotic and finite-length decoding performance compared to the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Heeyoul Kwak , Bohwan Jun , Pilwoong Yang , Jong-Seon No , Dong-Joon Shin

This paper presents and analyzes a novel concatenated coding scheme for enabling error resilience in two distributed storage settings: one being storage using existing regenerating codes and the second being storage using locally repairable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

Considerable interest has been paid in recent literature to codes combining local and global properties for erasure correction. Applications are in cloud type of implementations, in which fast recovery of a failed storage device is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Mario Blaum , Steven R. Hetzler

We study ensembles of codes on graphs (generalized low-density parity-check, or LDPC codes) constructed from random graphs and fixed local constrained codes, and their extension to codes on hypergraphs. It is known that the average minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Alexander Barg , Arya Mazumdar

We present the first theoretical framework that connects predictive coding (PC), a biologically inspired local learning rule, with the minimum description length (MDL) principle in deep networks. We prove that layerwise PC performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Benjamin Prada , Shion Matsumoto , Abdul Malik Zekri , Ankur Mali