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High-dimensional images, or images with a high-dimensional attribute vector per pixel, are commonly explored with coordinated views of a low-dimensional embedding of the attribute space and a conventional image representation. Nowadays,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alexander Vieth , Boudewijn Lelieveldt , Elmar Eisemann , Anna Vilanova , Thomas Höllt

In distributed storage systems that use coding, the issue of minimizing the communication required to rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. We consider the problem of repairing an erased node in a distributed storage system that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Zhiying Wang , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jehoshua Bruck

The locally repairable codes (LRCs) were introduced to correct erasures efficiently in distributed storage systems. LRCs are extensively studied recently. In this paper, we first deal with the open case remained in \cite{q} and derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jun Zhang , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

In order to accommodate the ever-growing data from various, possibly independent, sources and the dynamic nature of data usage rates in practical applications, modern cloud data storage systems are required to be scalable, flexible, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

The generalized Hamming weight of linear codes is a natural generalization of the minimum Hamming distance. They convey the structural information of a linear code and determine its performance in various applications, and have become one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Chao Liu , Dabin Zheng , Xiaoqiang Wang

Hierarchical matrices are data-sparse approximations of dense matrices that are widely used for fast matrix computations. Hierarchical matrices are built using a tree data structure, with low-rank blocks identified by various admissibility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ritesh Khan , Erin Carson

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

This paper studies the parameters for which Reed-Muller (RM) codes over $GF(2)$ can correct random erasures and random errors with high probability, and in particular when can they achieve capacity for these two classical channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Emmanuel Abbe , Amir Shpilka , Avi Wigderson

We introduce a unified generalization of several well-established high-throughput coding techniques including staircase codes, tiled diagonal zipper codes, continuously interleaved codes, open forward error correction (OFEC) codes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mohannad Shehadeh , Frank R. Kschischang

We provide a general framework for bounding the block error threshold of a linear code $C\subseteq \mathbb{F}_2^N$ over the erasure channel in terms of its bit error threshold. Our approach relies on understanding the minimum support weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Henry D. Pfister , Oscar Sprumont , Gilles Zémor

Mechanistic interpretability seeks to reverse-engineer neural network computations into human-understandable algorithms, yet extracting sparse computational circuits from billion-parameter language models remains challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohammed Mudassir Uddin , Shahnawaz Alam , Mohammed Kaif Pasha

Studying the generalized Hamming weights of linear codes is a significant research area within coding theory, as it provides valuable structural information about the codes and plays a crucial role in determining their performance in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Wei Lu , Qingyao Wang , Xiaoqiang Wang , Dabin Zheng

An $(m,n,a,b)$-tensor code consists of $m\times n$ matrices whose columns satisfy `$a$' parity checks and rows satisfy `$b$' parity checks (i.e., a tensor code is the tensor product of a column code and row code). Tensor codes are useful in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

The notion of universally decodable matrices (UDMs) was recently introduced by Tavildar and Viswanath while studying slow fading channels. It turns out that the problem of constructing UDMs is tightly connected to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Pascal O. Vontobel , Ashwin Ganesan

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is an emerging computational paradigm for representing compositional information as high-dimensional vectors, and has a promising potential in applications ranging from machine learning to neuromorphic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Netanel Raviv

Erasure codes have emerged as an efficient technology for providing data redundancy in distributed storage systems. However, it is a challenging task to repair the failed storage nodes in erasure-coded storage systems, which requires large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Kenneth W. Shum , Hui Li

We address the problem of converting large-scale high-dimensional image data into binary codes so that approximate nearest-neighbor search over them can be efficiently performed. Different from most of the existing unsupervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Tsung-Yu Lin , Tsung-Wei Ke , Tyng-Luh Liu

The multiplicative-additive finite-field matrix channel arises as an adequate model for linear network coding systems when links are subject to errors and erasures, and both the network topology and the network code are unknown. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Roberto W. Nobrega , Bartolomeu F. Uchoa-Filho

Generalized product codes (GPCs) are extensions of product codes (PCs) where code symbols are protected by two component codes but not necessarily arranged in a rectangular array. We consider a deterministic construction of GPCs (as opposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

In this paper we study codes for correcting deletable errors in binary words, where each bit is either retained, substituted, erased or deleted and the total number of errors is much smaller compared to the length of the codeword. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan