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Linear codes have diverse applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computation, association schemes, strongly regular graphs, authentication codes and communication. There are a large number of linear codes with few weights…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ahmet Sınak

Dynamic vector commitments that enable local updates of opening proofs have applications ranging from verifiable databases with membership changes to stateless clients on blockchains. In these applications, each user maintains a relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ertem Nusret Tas , Dan Boneh

This paper is motivated by the problem of error control in network coding when errors are introduced in a random fashion (rather than chosen by an adversary). An additive-multiplicative matrix channel is considered as a model for random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang , Ralf Kötter

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable code generation capabilities but falter when adapting to frequent updates in external library APIs. This critical limitation, stemming from reliance on outdated API knowledge from their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haoze Wu , Yunzhi Yao , Wenhao Yu , Ningyu Zhang

We study the problem of lossy joint source-channel coding in a single-user energy harvesting communication system with causal energy arrivals and the energy storage unit may have leakage. In particular, we investigate the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh , Masoud Badiei Khuzani , Patrick Mitran

This paper investigates variable-length stop-feedback codes for memoryless channels in point-to-point, multiple access, and random access communication scenarios. The proposed codes employ $L$ decoding times $n_1, n_2, \dots, n_L$ for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

Linear receivers are often used to reduce the implementation complexity of multiple-antenna systems. In a traditional linear receiver architecture, the receive antennas are used to separate out the codewords sent by each transmit antenna,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Jiening Zhan , Bobak Nazer , Uri Erez , Michael Gastpar

A two-terminal interactive function computation problem with alternating messages is studied within the framework of distributed block source coding theory. For any finite number of messages, a single-letter characterization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar

Due to stringent constraints on resources, it may be infeasible to acquire the current channel state information at the transmitter in energy harvesting communication systems. In this paper, we optimize an energy harvesting transmitter,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat , Mehul Motani , Teng Joon Lim

This paper considers vector network coding based on rank-metric codes and subspace codes. Our main result is that vector network coding can significantly reduce the required field size compared to scalar linear network coding in the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Tuvi Etzion , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Message-passing iterative decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) block codes are known to be subject to decoding failures due to so-called pseudo-codewords. These failures can cause the large signal-to-noise ratio performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Roxana Smarandache , Ali E. Pusane , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

A spread code is a set of vector spaces of a fixed dimension over a finite field Fq with certain properties used for random network coding. It can be constructed in different ways which lead to different decoding algorithms. In this work we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Felice Manganiello , Anna-Lena Trautmann

An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau

Function-correcting codes are an innovative class of codes that are designed to protect a function evaluation of the data against errors or corruptions. Due to its usefulness in machine learning applications and archival data storage, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Anamika Singh , Abhay Kumar Singh , Eitan Yaakobi

This paper introduces the ${\it decentralized}$ Pliable Index CODing (PICOD) problem: a variant of the Index Coding (IC) problem, where a central transmitter serves ${\it pliable}$ users with message side information; here, pliable refers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Tang Liu , Daniela Tuninetti

In this paper, we propose a finite alphabet message passing algorithm for LDPC codes that replaces the standard min-sum variable node update rule by a mapping based on generic look-up tables. This mapping is designed in a way that maximizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Michael Meidlinger , Reza Ghanaatian , Gerald Matz , Andreas Burg

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

Linear codes are widely studied in coding theory as they have nice applications in distributed storage, combinatorics, lattices, cryptography and so on. Constructing linear codes with desirable properties is an interesting research topic.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ziling Heng , Xiaoru Li , Yansheng Wu , Qi Wang

One pervasive challenge in providing a high quality-of-service for live communication is to recover lost packets in real-time. Streaming codes are a class of erasure codes that are designed for such strict, low-latency streaming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Michael Rudow , K. V. Rashmi

Subspace codes form the appropriate mathematical setting for investigating the Koetter-Kschischang model of fault-tolerant network coding. The Main Problem of Subspace Coding asks for the determination of a subspace code of maximum size…

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