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In this paper we study the hardness of the syndrome decoding problem over finite rings endowed with the Lee metric. We first prove that the decisional version of the problem is NP-complete, by a reduction from the $3$-dimensional matching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Violetta Weger , Karan Khathuria , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Massimo Battaglioni , Paolo Santini , Edoardo Persichetti

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

We introduce the sum-rank metric analogue of Reed--Muller codes, which we called linearized Reed--Muller codes, using multivariate Ore polynomials. We study the parameters of these codes, compute their dimension and give a lower bound for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Elena Berardini , Xavier Caruso

Maximum Hermitian rank metric codes were introduced by Schmidt in 2018 and in this paper we propose both interpolation-based encoding and decoding algorithms for this family of codes when the length and the minimum distance of the code are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Wrya K. Kadir , Chunlei Li , Ferdinando Zullo

The security of code-based cryptography relies primarily on the hardness of generic decoding with linear codes. The best generic decoding algorithms are all improvements of an old algorithm due to Prange: they are known under the name of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Thomas Debris-Alazard , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We propose an efficient algorithm to find a Reed-Solomon (RS) codeword at a distance within the covering radius of the code from any point in its ambient Hamming space. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first attempt of its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Samin Riasat , Hessam Mahdavifar

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

We provide an algebraic description for sum-rank metric codes, as quotient space of a skew polynomial ring. This approach generalizes at the same time the skew group algebra setting for rank-metric codes and the polynomial setting for codes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Alessandro Neri

Sum-rank codes have wide applications in multishot network coding, distributed storage and the construction of space-time codes. Asymptotically good sequences of linearized algebraic geometry sum-rank codes, exceeding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Huimin Lao , Hao Chen , San Ling , Yaqi Chen

We consider the problem of universal decoding for arbitrary unknown channels in the random coding regime. For a given random coding distribution and a given class of metric decoders, we propose a generic universal decoder whose average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

High-rate concatenated quantum codes offer a promising pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet designing efficient decoders that fully exploit their error-correction capability remains a significant challenge. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Chao Zhang , Zipeng Wu , Jiahui Wu , Shilin Huang

Decoding algorithms are essential to fault-tolerant quantum-computing architectures. In this perspective we explore decoding algorithms for the surface code; a prototypical quantum low-density parity-check code that underlies many of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Benjamin J. Brown

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

Recently, codes in the sum-rank metric attracted attention due to several applications in e.g. multishot network coding, distributed storage and quantum-resistant cryptography. The sum-rank analogs of Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

The problem of error control in random linear network coding is addressed from a matrix perspective that is closely related to the subspace perspective of K\"otter and Kschischang. A large class of constant-dimension subspace codes is…

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

Topological quantum error-correcting codes are a promising candidate for building fault-tolerant quantum computers. Decoding topological codes optimally, however, is known to be a computationally hard problem. Various decoders have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Milap Sheth , Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh , Vlad Gheorghiu

We study several variants of decomposing a symmetric matrix into a sum of a low-rank positive semidefinite matrix and a diagonal matrix. Such decompositions have applications in factor analysis and they have been studied for many decades.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Levent Tunçel , Stephen A. Vavasis , Jingye Xu

In this work we develop a geometric approach to the study of rank metric codes. Using this method, we introduce a simpler definition for generalized rank weight of linear codes. We give a complete classification of constant rank weight code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

This work investigates the structure of rank-metric codes in connection with concepts from finite geometry, most notably the $q$-analogues of projective systems and blocking sets. We also illustrate how to associate a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri , Alberto Ravagnani

This paper presents a generalization of our earlier work in [19]. In this paper, the two concepts, generic regular decomposition (GRD) and regular-decomposition-unstable (RDU) variety introduced in [19] for generic zero-dimensional systems,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Zhenghong Chen , Xiaoxian Tang , Bican Xia