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Practically good error-correcting codes should have good parameters and efficient decoding algorithms. Some algebraically defined good codes such as cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes, and Reed-Muller codes have nice decoding algorithms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Lucky Galvez , Jon-Lark Kim

We give approximation algorithms for the edge expansion and sparsest cut with product demands problems on directed hypergraphs, which subsume previous graph models such as undirected hypergraphs and directed normal graphs. Using an SDP…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 T-H. Hubert Chan , Bintao Sun

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

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a pragmatic framework for next-generation distributed sensor networks. Within URA, concatenated coding structures are often employed to ensure that the central base station can accurately recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

We propose the first non-trivial generic decoding algorithm for codes in the sum-rank metric. The new method combines ideas of well-known generic decoders in the Hamming and rank metric. For the same code parameters and number of errors,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Sven Puchinger , Julian Renner , Johan Rosenkilde

We show that if k-SUM is hard, in the sense that the standard algorithm is essentially optimal, then a variant of the SETH called the Primal Treewidth SETH is true. Formally: if there is an $\varepsilon>0$ and an algorithm which solves SAT…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Michael Lampis

Given n positive integers, the Modular Subset Sum problem asks if a subset adds up to a given target t modulo a given integer m. This is a natural generalization of the Subset Sum problem (where m=+\infty) with ties to additive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kyriakos Axiotis , Arturs Backurs , Christos Tzamos

Quantum information is fragile and must be protected by a quantum error-correcting code for large-scale practical applications. Recently, highly efficient quantum codes have been discovered which require a high degree of spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nouédyn Baspin , Dominic Williamson

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

We present a general approach to rounding semidefinite programming relaxations obtained by the Sum-of-Squares method (Lasserre hierarchy). Our approach is based on using the connection between these relaxations and the Sum-of-Squares proof…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Boaz Barak , Jonathan Kelner , David Steurer

List decoding of codes can be seen as the generalization of unique decoding of codes While list decoding over finite fields has been extensively studied, extending these results to more general algebraic structures such as Galois rings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

The sum-product algorithm for decoding of binary codes is analyzed for bipartite graphs in which the check nodes all have degree $2$. The algorithm simplifies dramatically and may be expressed using linear algebra. Exact results about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 John O. Brevik , Michael E. O'Sullivan

We present the current fastest deterministic algorithm for $k$-SAT, improving the upper bound $(2-2/k)^{n + o(n)}$ dues to Moser and Scheder [STOC'11]. The algorithm combines a branching algorithm with the derandomized local search, whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-19 S. Cliff Liu

We introduce a notion of code sparsification that generalizes the notion of cut sparsification in graphs. For a (linear) code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \mathbb{F}_q^n$ of dimension $k$ a $(1 \pm \epsilon)$-sparsification of size $s$ is given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L Putterman , Madhu Sudan

Symmetric tensor decomposition is an important problem with applications in several areas for example signal processing, statistics, data analysis and computational neuroscience. It is equivalent to Waring's problem for homogeneous…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Ludovic Perret , Elias Tsigaridas

In the classical Subset Sum problem we are given a set $X$ and a target $t$, and the task is to decide whether there exists a subset of $X$ which sums to $t$. A recent line of research has resulted in $\tilde{O}(t)$-time algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Karl Bringmann , Vasileios Nakos

In this work we explore error-correcting codes derived from the "lifting" of "affine-invariant" codes. Affine-invariant codes are simply linear codes whose coordinates are a vector space over a field and which are invariant under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Alan Guo , Swastik Kopparty , Madhu Sudan

CSP sparsification, introduced by Kogan and Krauthgamer (ITCS 2015), considers the following question: how much can an instance of a constraint satisfaction problem be sparsified (by retaining a reweighted subset of the constraints) while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan

Cross-subspace alignment (CSA) codes are used in various private information retrieval (PIR) schemes (e.g., with secure storage) and in secure distributed batch matrix multiplication (SDBMM). Using a recently developed $N$-sum box…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuxiang Lu , Syed Ali Jafar

We introduce an algorithm for approximating the codebook probability that is compatible with all successive cancellation (SC)-based decoding algorithms, including SC list (SCL) decoding. This approximation is based on an auxiliary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard