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In this paper, we establish the list-decoding capacity theorem for sum-rank metric codes. This theorem implies the list-decodability theorem for random general sum-rank metric codes: Any random general sum-rank metric code with a rate not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yang Liu , Anna Baumeister , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

A binary code of blocklength $n$ and codebook size $M$ is called an $(n,M)$ code, which is studied for memoryless binary symmetric channels (BSCs) with the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding. For any $n \geq 2$, some optimal codes among the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yanyan Dong , Shenghao Yang

In the present paper, we consider list decoding for both random rank metric codes and random linear rank metric codes. Firstly, we show that, for arbitrary $0<R<1$ and $\epsilon>0$ ($\epsilon$ and $R$ are independent), if $0<\frac{n}{m}\leq…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Yang Ding

The sphere-packing bound quantifies the error exponent for noisy channel coding for rates above a critical value. Here, we study the zero-rate limit of the sphere-packing bound and show that it has an intriguing single-letter form, which we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Filippo Girardi , Aadil Oufkir , Bartosz Regula , Marco Tomamichel , Mario Berta , Ludovico Lami

A locally repairable code with availability has the property that every code symbol can be recovered from multiple, disjoint subsets of other symbols of small size. In particular, a code symbol is said to have $(r,t)$-availability if it can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Swanand Kadhe , Robert Calderbank

We give a new construction of algebraic codes which are efficiently list decodable from a fraction $1-R-\eps$ of adversarial errors where $R$ is the rate of the code, for any desired positive constant $\eps$. The worst-case list size output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Venkatesan Guruswami , Chaoping Xing

The surface code is a promising platform for a quantum memory, but its threshold under coherent errors remains incompletely understood. We study maximum-likelihood decoding of the square-lattice surface code in the presence of single-qubit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stephen W. Yan , Yimu Bao , Sagar Vijay

We use class field theory, specifically Drinfeld modules of rank 1, to construct a family of asymptotically good algebraic-geometric (AG) codes over fixed alphabets. Over a field of size $\ell^2$, these codes are within $2/(\sqrt{\ell}-1)$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Venkatesan Guruswami , Chaoping Xing

In this work, binary block-to-block distribution matching is considered. m independent and uniformly distributed bits are mapped to n output bits resembling a target product distribution. A rate R is called achieved by a sequence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Georg Böcherer , Rana Ali Amjad

Reed--Solomon error-correcting codes are ubiquitous across computer science and information theory, with applications in cryptography, computational complexity, communication and storage systems, and more. Most works on efficient error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chris Peikert , Alexandra Veliche Hostetler

An $L$-spherical code is a set of Euclidean unit vectors whose pairwise inner products belong to the set $L$. We show, for a fixed $\alpha,\beta>0$, that the size of any $[-1,-\beta]\cup\{\alpha\}$-spherical code is at most linear in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Boris Bukh

We prove several results on linear codes achieving list-recovery capacity. We show that random linear codes achieve list-recovery capacity with constant output list size (independent of the alphabet size and length). That is, over alphabets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Ray Li , Nikhil Shagrithaya

We derive an upper bound on the reliability function of mismatched decoding for zero-rate codes. The bound is based on a result by Koml\'os that shows the existence of a subcode with certain symmetry properties. The bound is shown to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Marco Bondaschi , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas , Marco Dalai

We revise the proof of low-rate upper bounds on the reliability function of discrete memoryless channels for ordinary and list-decoding schemes, in particular Berlekamp and Blinovsky's zero-rate bound, as well as Blahut's bound for low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Marco Bondaschi , Marco Dalai

We analyze the list-decodability, and related notions, of random linear codes. This has been studied extensively before: there are many different parameter regimes and many different variants. Previous works have used complementary styles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Atri Rudra , Mary Wootters

This paper presents general bounds on the highest achievable rate for list-decodable insertion-deletion codes. In particular, we give novel outer and inner bounds for the highest achievable communication rate of any insertion-deletion code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

The set of all error-correcting codes C over a fixed finite alphabet F of cardinality q determines the set of code points in the unit square with coordinates (R(C), delta (C)):= (relative transmission rate, relative minimal distance). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuri I. Manin , Matilde Marcolli

We study the list-decoding problem of alternant codes, with the notable case of classical Goppa codes. The major consideration here is to take into account the size of the alphabet, which shows great influence on the list-decoding radius.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-17 Daniel Augot , Morgan Barbier , Alain Couvreur

We derive the optimum second-order coding rates, known as second-order capacities, for erasure and list decoding. For erasure decoding for discrete memoryless channels, we show that second-order capacity is $\sqrt{V}\Phi^{-1}(\epsilon_t)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Vincent Y. F. Tan , Pierre Moulin

Haah's cubic code is the prototypical type-II fracton topological order. It instantiates the no string-like operator property that underlies the favorable scaling of its code distance and logical energy barrier. Previously, the cubic code…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Cory T. Aitchison , Daniel Bulmash , Arpit Dua , Andrew C. Doherty , Dominic J. Williamson