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In the pairwise weighted spanner problem, the input consists of an $n$-vertex-directed graph, where each edge is assigned a cost and a length. Given $k$ vertex pairs and a distance constraint for each pair, the goal is to find a…

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An algorithm is proposed for constructing directed spanning forests of the minimum weight, in which the maximum possible degree of affinity between the minimum forests is preserved when the number of trees changes. The correctness of the…

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The evaluation of the minimum distance of linear block codes remains an open problem in coding theory, and it is not easy to determine its true value by classical methods, for this reason the problem has been solved in the literature with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Mohamed Askali , Ahmed Azouaoui , Saïd Nouh , Mostafa Belkasmi

Recent years have witnessed extensive attention in binary code learning, a.k.a. hashing, for nearest neighbor search problems. It has been seen that high-dimensional data points can be quantized into binary codes to give an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Hong Liu , Rongrong Ji , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang

Let $G=(V, E)$ be an undirected $n$-vertices $m$-edges graph with non-negative edge weights. In this paper, we present three new algorithms for constructing a $(2k-1)$-stretch distance oracle with $O(n^{1+\frac{1}{k}})$ space. The first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Avi Kadria , Liam Roditty

In recent years, polar codes have been considered for communication systems that require high re-liability and ultra-low latency, such as sixth generation (6G) wireless communications. This paper presents simulation results showing that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Robert Morelos-Zaragoza , Jeffrey Ma

Binary cyclic codes have been a hot topic for many years, and significant progress has been made in the study of this types of codes. As is well known, it is hard to construct infinite families of binary cyclic codes [n, n+1/2] with good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Tingting Wu , Lanqiang Li , Xiuyu Zhang , Shixin Zhu

In this paper we devise a rational curve fitting algorithm and apply it to the list decoding of Reed-Solomon and BCH codes. The proposed list decoding algorithms exhibit the following significant properties. 1 The algorithm corrects up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-10 Yingquan Wu

We suggest a new non-recursive algorithm for constructing a binary search tree given an array of numbers. The algorithm has $O(N)$ time and $O(1)$ memory complexity if the given array of $N$ numbers is sorted. The resulting tree is of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Pavel S. Ruzankin

Combinatorial $t$-designs have been an interesting topic in combinatorics for decades. It is a basic fact that the codewords of a fixed weight in a code may hold a $t$-design. Till now only a small amount of work on constructing $t$-designs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Xiaoni Du , Rong Wang , Chunming Tang , Qi Wang

BCH codes have been studied for over fifty years and widely employed in consumer devices, communication systems, and data storage systems. However, the dimension of BCH codes is settled only for a very small number of cases. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Hao Liu , Cunsheng Ding , Chengju Li

It was shown in \cite{GXY18} that the length $n$ of a $q$-ary linear locally recoverable code with distance $d\ge 5$ is upper bounded by $O(dq^3)$. Thus, it is a challenging problem to construct $q$-ary locally recoverable codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Lingfei Jin

Goppa codes form an important class of alternant codes with wide applications in algebraic coding theory and code-based cryptography. Determining the true minimum distance of a Goppa code is a difficult problem. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yaqi Chen , Hao Chen , Cunsheng Ding , Huimin Lao

The task of constructing infinite families of self-dual codes with unbounded lengths and minimum distances exhibiting square-root lower bounds is extremely challenging, especially when it comes to cyclic codes. Recently, the first infinite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xiaoqiang Wang , Liuyi Li , Yansheng Wu , Dabin Zheng , Shuxian Lu

Currently known secondary construction techniques for linear codes mainly include puncturing, shortening, and extending. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the secondary construction of linear codes based on their weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dongmei Huang , Qunying Liao , Sihem Mesnager , Gaohua Tang , Haode Yan

This paper proposes earliest and latest path algorithms based on binary weight allocation, assigning weights of 2(i-1) and 2(m-i) to the i-th arc in a network. While traditional shortest path algorithms optimize only distance, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Wei-Chang Yeh

The edit distance of two strings is the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to transform one string into the other. The textbook algorithm determines the edit distance of length-$n$ strings in $O(n^2)$ time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Egor Gorbachev , Tomasz Kociumaka

A $c$-short program for a string $x$ is a description of $x$ of length at most $C(x) + c$, where $C(x)$ is the Kolmogorov complexity of $x$. We show that there exists a randomized algorithm that constructs a list of $n$ elements that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Bruno Bauwens , Marius Zimand

We give the first non-trivial fully dynamic probabilistic tree embedding algorithm for weighted graphs undergoing edge insertions and deletions. We obtain a trade-off between amortized update time and expected stretch against an oblivious…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger

Given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G$ with non negative edge-weights, the girth of $G$ is the weight of a shortest cycle in $G$. For any graph $G$ with polynomially bounded integer weights, we present a deterministic algorithm that…

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