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We prove the following results concerning the list decoding of error-correcting codes: (i) We show that for \textit{any} code with a relative distance of $\delta$ (over a large enough alphabet), the following result holds for \textit{random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Atri Rudra , Steve Uurtamo

In this work, we show new and improved error-correcting properties of folded Reed-Solomon codes and multiplicity codes. Both of these families of codes are based on polynomials over finite fields, and both have been the sources of recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Swastik Kopparty , Noga Ron-Zewi , Shubhangi Saraf , Mary Wootters

Nearly perfect packing codes are those codes that meet the Johnson upper bound on the size of error-correcting codes. This bound is an improvement to the sphere-packing bound. A related bound for covering codes is known as the van Wee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Avital Boruchovsky , Tuvi Etzion , Ron M. Roth

V. Guruswami and N. Resch prove that the list decodability of $\mathbb{F}_q$-linear rank metric codes is as good as that of random rank metric codes in~\cite{venkat2017}. Due to the potential applications of self-orthogonal rank metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Shu Liu

In this work, we consider the list-decodability and list-recoverability of codes in the zero-rate regime. Briefly, a code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq [q]^n$ is $(p,\ell,L)$-list-recoverable if for all tuples of input lists $(Y_1,\dots,Y_n)$ with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan , Yihan Zhang

We prove that Reed-Solomon (RS) codes with random evaluation points are list recoverable up to capacity with optimal output list size, for any input list size. Namely, given an input list size $\ell$, a designated rate $R$, and any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Dean Doron , S. Venkitesh

In a recent breakthrough [BGM23, GZ23, AGL23], it was shown that randomly punctured Reed-Solomon codes are list decodable with optimal list size with high probability, i.e., they attain the Singleton bound for list decoding [ST20, Rot22,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Noga Ron-Zewi , S. Venkitesh , Mary Wootters

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

In this work it is shown 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 corresponding decoding radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The sum-rank metric is the mixture of the Hamming and rank metrics. The sum-rank metric found its application in network coding, locally repairable codes, space-time coding, and quantum-resistant cryptography. Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kuo Shang , Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

Insdel errors occur in communication systems caused by the loss of positional information of the message. Since the work by Guruswami and Wang, there have been some further investigations on the list decoding of insertion codes, deletion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

This paper shows that, with high probability, randomly punctured Reed-Solomon codes over fields of polynomial size achieve the list decoding capacity. More specifically, we prove that for any $\epsilon>0$ and $R\in (0,1)$, with high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zeyu Guo , Zihan Zhang

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

It is well known that a random q-ary code of rate \Omega(\epsilon^2) is list decodable up to radius (1 - 1/q - \epsilon) with list sizes on the order of 1/\epsilon^2, with probability 1 - o(1). However, until recently, a similar statement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Mary Wootters

We construct an explicit family of linear rank-metric codes over any field ${\mathbb F}_h$ that enables efficient list decoding up to a fraction $\rho$ of errors in the rank metric with a rate of $1-\rho-\epsilon$, for any desired $\rho \in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Venkatesan Guruswami , Carol Wang

In this paper, we study the hardness of decoding a random code endowed with the cover metric. As the cover metric lies in between the Hamming and rank metric, it presents itself as a promising candidate for code-based cryptography. We give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Sebastian Bitzer , Julian Renner , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Violetta Weger

In this work we consider the list-decodability and list-recoverability of arbitrary $q$-ary codes, for all integer values of $q\geq 2$. A code is called $(p,L)_q$-list-decodable if every radius $pn$ Hamming ball contains less than $L$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan , Yihan Zhang

Subspace codes and rank-metric codes can be used to correct errors and erasures in network, with linear network coding. Subspace codes were introduced by Koetter and Kschischang to correct errors and erasures in networks where topology is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

The question of list decoding error-correcting codes over finite fields (under the Hamming metric) has been widely studied in recent years. Motivated by the similar discrete structure of linear codes and point lattices in R^N, and their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Elena Grigorescu , Chris Peikert

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are a well-studied family of codes, known for achieving list decoding capacity. In this work, we give improved deterministic and randomized algorithms for list decoding FRS codes of rate $R$ up to radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Mursalin Habib , Shashank Srivastava