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We present a novel iterative decoding algorithm for Reed-Muller (RM) codes, which takes advantage of a graph representation of the code. Vertices of the considered graph correspond to codewords, with two vertices being connected by an edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mikhail Kamenev

This paper shows that there exist Reed--Solomon (RS) codes, over \black{exponentially} large finite fields \black{in the code length}, that are combinatorially list-decodable well beyond the Johnson radius, in fact almost achieving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo , Mary Wootters

A novel recursive list decoding (RLD) algorithm for Reed-Muller (RM) codes based on successive permutations (SP) of the codeword is presented. A low-complexity SP scheme applied to a subset of the symmetry group of RM codes is first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nghia Doan , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

An iterated refinement procedure for the Guruswami-Sudan list decoding algorithm for Generalised Reed-Solomon codes based on Alekhnovich's module minimisation is proposed. The method is parametrisable and allows variants of the usual list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Johan Sebastian Rosenkilde Nielsen , Alexander Zeh

Codes in the sum-rank metric have various applications in error control for multishot network coding, distributed storage and code-based cryptography. Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes contain Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

The sum-rank metric is a hybrid between the Hamming metric and the rank metric and suitable for error correction in multishot network coding and distributed storage as well as for the design of quantum-resistant cryptosystems. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Establishing the complexity of {\em Bounded Distance Decoding} for Reed-Solomon codes is a fundamental open problem in coding theory, explicitly asked by Guruswami and Vardy (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2005). The problem is motivated by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Venkata Gandikota , Badih Ghazi , Elena Grigorescu

We introduce randomized Limited View (LV) adversary codes that provide protection against an adversary that uses their partial view of the communication to construct an adversarial error vector to be added to the channel. For a codeword of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Reihaneh Safavi-Naini , Pengwei Wang

The extended Euclidean algorithm (EEA) for polynomial greatest common divisors is commonly used in solving the key equation in the decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, and more generally in BCH decoding. For this particular application, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Dilip V. Sarwate , Zhiyuan Yan

We propose a novel method to calculate logical error rates in surface codes, assuming independent and identically distributed physical errors. We show how to use our method to analyze hypothetical quantum computers with various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Shaked Regev , Daniel Dilley , Andrea Delgado , Ryan Bennink

Mart{\'\i}nez-Pe{\~n}as and Kschischang (IEEE Trans.\ Inf.\ Theory, 2019) proposed lifted linearized Reed--Solomon codes as suitable codes for error control in multishot network coding. We show how to construct and decode \ac{LILRS} codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

We present a construction of subspace codes along with an efficient algorithm for list decoding from both insertions and deletions, handling an information-theoretically maximum fraction of these with polynomially small rate. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Venkatesan Guruswami , Srivatsan Narayanan , Carol Wang

The two primary decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm and the Sugiyama et al. adaptation of the Euclidean algorithm, both designed to solve a key equation. In this article an alternative version of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-18 Maria Bras-Amorós , Michael E. O'Sullivan

Recursive projection aggregation (RPA) decoding as introduced in [1] is a novel decoding algorithm which performs close to the maximum likelihood decoder for short-length Reed-Muller codes. Recently, an extension to RPA decoding, called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Johannes Voigt , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

In this paper, we introduce a novel explicit family of subcodes of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that efficiently achieve list decoding capacity with a constant output list size. Our approach builds upon the idea of large linear subcodes of RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

We study the problem of low-bandwidth non-linear computation on Reed-Solomon encoded data. Given an $[n,k]$ Reed-Solomon encoding of a message vector $\mathbf{f} \in \mathbb{F}_q^k$, and a polynomial $g \in \mathbb{F}_q[X_1, X_2, \ldots,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Keller Blackwell , Mary Wootters

Reed-Muller codes consist of evaluations of $n$-variate polynomials over a finite field $\mathbb{F}$ with degree at most $d$. Much like every linear code, Reed-Muller codes can be characterized by constraints, where a codeword is valid if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Omri Gotlib , Tali Kaufman , Shachar Lovett

Error-correcting codes are a method for representing data, so that one can recover the original information even if some parts of it were corrupted. The basic idea, which dates back to the revolutionary work of Shannon and Hamming about a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Noga Ron-Zewi

The paper introduces the simultaneous partial-inverse problem (SPI) for polynomials and develops its application to decoding interleaved Reed--Solomon codes beyond half the minimum distance. While closely related both to standard key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jiun-Hung Yu , Hans-Andrea Loeliger

In this paper we present a modification of Reed-Solomon codes that beats the Guruwami-Sudan $1-\sqrt{R}$ decoding radius of Reed-Solomon codes at low rates $R$. The idea is to choose Reed-Solomon codes $U$ and $V$ with appropriate rates in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Irene Márquez-Corbella , Jean-Pierre Tillich