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This paper is concerned with the ordered statistic decoding with local constraints (LC-OSD) of binary linear block codes, which is a near maximum-likelihood decoding algorithm. Compared with the conventional OSD, the LC-OSD significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Jifan Liang , Xiao Ma

Our primary goal in this paper is to traverse the performance gap between two linear network coding schemes: random linear network coding (RLNC) and instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) in terms of throughput and decoding delay. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Mingchao Yu , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi

Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) were proposed for the recovery of data in distributed and cloud storage systems about nine years ago. A lot of progress on the study of LRCs has been made by now. However, there is a lack of general theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Pan Tan , Cuiling Fan , Cunsheng Ding , Zhengchun Zhou

We examine the issue of separation and code design for networks that operate over finite fields. We demonstrate that source-channel (or source-network) separation holds for several canonical network examples like the noisy multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Siddharth Ray , Michelle Effros , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Tracey Ho , David Karger , Jinane Abounadi

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C : \Sigma^k \to \Sigma^n$ that admit a local decoding algorithm that recovers each individual bit of the message by querying only a few bits from a noisy codeword. An important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Vahid R. Asadi , Igor Shinkar

In this paper, we prove the existence of capacity achieving linear codes with random binary sparse generating matrices. The results on the existence of capacity achieving linear codes in the literature are limited to the random binary codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-31 A. Makhdoumi Kakhaki , H. Karkeh Abadi , P. Pad , H. Saeedi , F. Marvasti , K. Alishahi

Line codes make it possible to mitigate interference, to prevent short pulses, and to generate streams of bipolar signals with no direct-current (DC) power content through balancing. They find application in magnetic recording (MR) devices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank

Low rank approximation is an important tool used in many applications of signal processing and machine learning. Recently, randomized sketching algorithms were proposed to effectively construct low rank approximations and obtain approximate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Shashanka Ubaru , Arya Mazumdar , Yousef Saad

This paper studies random-coding error exponents of randomised list decoding, in which the decoder randomly selects $L$ messages with probabilities proportional to the decoding metric of the codewords. The exponents (or bounds) are given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sheng Yang

Despite its reduced complexity, lattice reduction-aided decoding exhibits a widening gap to maximum-likelihood (ML) performance as the dimension increases. To improve its performance, this paper presents randomized lattice decoding based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shuiyin Liu , Cong Ling , Damien Stehlé

Sparse representations of images are useful in many computer vision applications. Sparse coding with an $l_1$ penalty and a learned linear dictionary requires regularization of the dictionary to prevent a collapse in the $l_1$ norms of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Katrina Evtimova , Yann LeCun

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error correction codes that allow recovery of any single message symbol by probing only a small number of positions from the (possibly corrupted) codeword. Relaxed locally decodable codes (RLDCs) further…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Kuan Cheng , Xin Li , Songtao Mao

In this paper, we prove that with high probability, random Reed-Solomon codes approach the half-Singleton bound - the optimal rate versus error tradeoff for linear insdel codes - with linear-sized alphabets. More precisely, we prove that,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Roni Con , Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

The problem of computing a linear combination of sources over a multiple access channel is studied. Inner and outer bounds on the optimal tradeoff between the communication rates are established when encoding is restricted to random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pinar Sen , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

Random linear network coding (RLNC) provides a powerful framework for non-coherent communication, where reliable transmission requires correcting errors and erasures induced by network mixing and motivates the use of subspace codes. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 David Ramirez , Elvis Cabrera , Jyrko Correa-Morris

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error correcting codes that admit efficient decoding of individual message symbols without decoding the entire message. Unfortunately, known LDC constructions offer a sub-optimal trade-off between rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeremiah Blocki , Justin Zhang

In most notions of locality in error correcting codes -- notably locally recoverable codes (LRCs) and locally decodable codes (LDCs) -- a decoder seeks to learn a single symbol of a message while looking at only a few symbols of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Prasanna Ramakrishnan , Mary Wootters

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are error correcting codes used in distributed data storage. Besides a global level, they enable errors to be corrected locally, reducing the need for communication between storage nodes. There is a close…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Antti Pöllänen , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Error control is significant to network coding, since when unchecked, errors greatly deteriorate the throughput gains of network coding and seriously undermine both reliability and security of data. Two families of codes, subspace and rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-04 Zhiyuan Yan , Hongmei Xie

Sparse random linear network coding (SRLNC) is an attractive technique proposed in the literature to reduce the decoding complexity of random linear network coding. Recognizing the fact that the existing SRLNC schemes are not efficient in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Raman Yazdani , Masoud Ardakani