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Rank-metric codes, defined as sets of matrices over a finite field with the rank distance, have gained significant attention due to their applications in network coding and connections to diverse mathematical areas. Initially studied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

Coding for distributed storage gives rise to a new set of problems in coding theory related to the need of reducing inter-node communication in the system. A large number of recent papers addressed the problem of optimizing the total amount…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We introduce Reed-Solomon-Gabidulin codes which is, at the same time, an extension to Reed-Solomon codes on the one hand and Gabidulin codes on the other hand. We prove that our codes have good properties with respect to the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Xavier Caruso , Amaury Durand

Linearized Reed-Solomon codes are defined. Higher weight distribution of those codes are determined.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Haode Yan , Yan Liu , Chunlei Liu

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

Separating codes have their applications in collusion-secure fingerprinting for generic digital data, while they are also related to the other structures including hash family, intersection code and group testing. In this paper we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Ryul Kim , Myong-Son Sin , Ok-Hyon Song

A general class of polynomial remainder codes is considered. Such codes are very flexible in rate and length and include Reed-Solomon codes as a special case. As an extension of previous work, two joint error-and-erasure decoding approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Jiun-Hung Yu

In this article we count the number of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes of dimension k and length n, including the codes coming from a non-degenerate conic plus nucleus. We compare our results with known formulae for the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Peter Beelen , David Glynn , Tom Høholdt , Krishna Kaipa

We construct two new families of linear codes by modifying the generator matrices of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. For these codes, we explicitly derive parity-check matrices and establish necessary and sufficient conditions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kanat Abdukhalikov , Gyanendra K. Verma

We prove several results on linear codes achieving list-recovery capacity. We show that random linear codes achieve list-recovery capacity with constant output list size (independent of the alphabet size and length). That is, over alphabets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Ray Li , Nikhil Shagrithaya

We describe a new class of list decodable codes based on Galois extensions of function fields and present a list decoding algorithm. These codes are obtained as a result of folding the set of rational places of a function field using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-12 Ming-Deh Huang , Anand Kumar Narayanan

The repair bandwidth of a code is the minimum amount of data required to repair one or several failed nodes (erasures). For MDS codes, the repair bandwidth is bounded below by the so-called cut-set bound, and codes that meet this bound with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Sum-rank metric codes, as a generalization of Hamming codes and rank metric codes, have important applications in fields such as multi-shot linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage systems. The purpose of this study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xuemei Liu , Jiarong Zhang , Gang Wang

Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for encoding data, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Michael O'Sullivan , Diego Ruano

Polynomial evaluation codes hold a prominent place in coding theory. In this work, we study the problem of list decoding for a general class of polynomial evaluation codes, also known as Toric codes, that are defined for any given convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Silouanos Brazitikos , Theodoulos Garefalakis , Eleni Tzanaki

List recovery of error-correcting codes has emerged as a fundamental notion with broad applications across coding theory and theoretical computer science. Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rohan Goyal , Venkatesan Guruswami

The list-decodability of random linear rank-metric codes is shown to match that of random rank-metric codes. Specifically, an $\mathbb{F}_q$-linear rank-metric code over $\mathbb{F}_q^{m \times n}$ of rate $R =…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Venkatesan Guruswami , Nicolas Resch

The key step of syndrome-based decoding of Reed-Solomon codes up to half the minimum distance is to solve the so-called Key Equation. List decoding algorithms, capable of decoding beyond half the minimum distance, are based on interpolation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Alexander Zeh , Christian Gentner , Daniel Augot

Lifted Reed-Solomon and multiplicity codes are classes of codes, constructed from specific sets of $m$-variate polynomials. These codes allow for the design of high-rate codes that can recover every codeword or information symbol from many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Lukas Holzbaur , Rina Polyanskaya , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev , Eitan Yaakobi

The problem of repairing linear codes and, in particular, Reed Solomon (RS) codes has attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to their extreme importance to distributed storage systems. In this problem, a failed code symbol (node)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Roni Con , Itzhak Tamo