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Lifted Reed-Solomon codes, introduced by Guo, Kopparty and Sudan in 2013, are known as one of the few families of high-rate locally correctable codes. They are built through the evaluation over the affine space of multivariate polynomials…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Julien Lavauzelle

Expander (Tanner) codes combine sparse graphs with local constraints, enabling linear-time decoding and asymptotically good distance--rate tradeoffs. A standard constraint-counting argument yields the global-rate lower bound $R\ge 2r-1$ for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Swastik Kopparty , Itzhak Tamo

In the last years, Regev's reduction has been used as a quantum algorithmic tool for providing a quantum advantage for variants of the decoding problem. Following this line of work, the authors of [JSW+24] have recently come up with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 André Chailloux , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We consider a list decoding algorithm recently proposed by Pellikaan-Wu \cite{PW2005} for $q$-ary Reed-Muller codes $\mathcal{RM}_q(\ell, m, n)$ of length $n \leq q^m$ when $\ell \leq q$. A simple and easily accessible correctness proof is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nandakishore Santhi

Algebraic cryptanalysis usually requires to recover the secret key by solving polynomial equations. Grobner bases algorithm is a well-known method to solve this problem. However, a serious drawback exists in the Grobner bases based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Wansu Bao , Heliang Huang

Solving multihomogeneous systems, as a wide range of structured algebraic systems occurring frequently in practical problems, is of first importance. Experimentally, solving these systems with Gr\"obner bases algorithms seems to be easier…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-02-24 Jean-Charles Faugère , Mohab Safey El Din , Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer

We obtain a technique to reduce the computational complexity associated with decoding of Hermitian codes. In particular, we propose a method to compute the error locations and values using an uni-variate error locator and an uni-variate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-12 Rachit Agarwal

Multishot network coding is considered in a worst-case adversarial setting in which an omniscient adversary with unbounded computational resources may inject erroneous packets in up to $t$ links, erase up to $\rho$ packets, and wire-tap up…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Frank R. Kschischang

Gr{\"o}bner bases is one the most powerful tools in algorithmic non-linear algebra. Their computation is an intrinsically hard problem with a complexity at least single exponential in the number of variables. However, in most of the cases,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Elias Tsigaridas

The K\"otter-Nielsen-H{\o}holdt algorithm is a popular way to construct the bivariate interpolation polynomial in the Guruswami-Sudan decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes. In this paper, we show how one can use Divide & Conquer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Johan S. R. Nielsen

Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

In April 2025 GMV announced a competition for finding the best method to solve a particular polynomial system over a finite field. In this paper we provide a method for solving the given equation system significantly faster than what is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Àngela Barbero , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti , Håvard Raddum , Øyvind Ytrehus , Morten Øygarden

The problem of finding subfield subcodes of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes (i.e., alternant codes) is considered. A pure linear algebraic approach is taken in order to derive message constraints that generalize the well known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Christian Senger , Rohit Bohara

We show that locally repairable codes (LRCs) can be list decoded efficiently beyond the Johnson radius for a large range of parameters by utilizing the local error correction capabilities. The new decoding radius is derived and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Insertion and deletion (insdel for short) errors are synchronization errors in communication systems caused by the loss of positional information in the message. Reed-Solomon codes have gained a lot of interest due to its encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Tai Do Duc , Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

In this paper, we provide conditions that hulls of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are also GRS codes from algebraic geometry codes. If the conditions are not satisfied, we provide a method of linear algebra to find the bases of hulls…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xue Jia , Qin Yue , Huan Sun , Junzhen Sui

In this work, we study the performance of Reed--Solomon codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (insdel) errors. We prove that over fields of size $n^{O(k)}$ there are $[n,k]$ Reed-Solomon codes that can decode from $n-2k+1$ insdel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roni Con , Amir Shpilka , Itzhak Tamo

Just as rank-metric or Gabidulin codes may be used to construct rate-diversity tradeoff optimal space-time codes, a recently introduced generalization for the sum-rank metric -- linearized Reed-Solomon codes -- accomplishes the same in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mohannad Shehadeh , Frank R. Kschischang

Gr\"obner Bases and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition are generally thought of as two, rather different, methods of looking at systems of equations and, in the case of Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition, inequalities. However, even for a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2012-07-30 David J. Wilson , Russell J. Bradford , James H. Davenport

In previous work, we demonstrated how decoding of a non-binary linear code could be formulated as a linear-programming problem. In this paper, we study different polytopes for use with linear-programming decoding, and show that for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Vitaly Skachek , Mark F. Flanagan , Eimear Byrne , Marcus Greferath