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The classical family of $[n,k]_q$ Reed-Solomon codes over a field $\F_q$ consist of the evaluations of polynomials $f \in \F_q[X]$ of degree $< k$ at $n$ distinct field elements. In this work, we consider a closely related family of codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Venkatesan Guruswami , Carol Wang

MDS codes play a central role in practice due to their broad applications. To date, most known MDS codes are generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, leaving codes that are not equivalent to GRS codes comparatively less understood. Studying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Runtian Zhu , Lingfei Jin

We give a linear-time erasure list-decoding algorithm for expander codes. More precisely, let $r > 0$ be any integer. Given an inner code $C_0$ of length $d$, and a $d$-regular bipartite expander graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Noga Ron-Zewi , Mary Wootters , Gilles Zémor

One of the oldest problems in coding theory is to match the Gilbert-Varshamov bound with explicit binary codes. Over larger-yet still constant-sized-fields, algebraic-geometry codes are known to beat the GV bound. In this work, we leverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Gil Cohen , Dean Doron , Noam Goldgraber , Tomer Manket

We show that Reed-Solomon codes of dimension $k$ and block length $n$ over any finite field $\mathbb{F}$ can be deterministically list decoded from agreement $\sqrt{(k-1)n}$ in time $\text{poly}(n, \log |\mathbb{F}|)$. Prior to this work,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Soham Chatterjee , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar

We construct a new family of explicit codes that are list decodable to capacity and achieve an optimal list size of $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon})$. In contrast to existing explicit constructions of codes achieving list decoding capacity, our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Tushant Mittal , Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

We develop new list decoding algorithms for Tanner codes and distance-amplified codes based on bipartite spectral expanders. We show that proofs exhibiting lower bounds on the minimum distance of these codes can be used as certificates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

We show how Gabidulin codes can be list decoded by using an iterative parametrization approach. For a given received word, our decoding algorithm processes its entries one by one, constructing four polynomials at each step. This then yields…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Margreta Kuijper , Anna-Lena Trautmann

The GM-MDS theorem, conjectured by Dau-Song-Dong-Yuen and proved by Lovett and Yildiz-Hassibi, shows that the generator matrices of Reed-Solomon codes can attain every possible configuration of zeros for an MDS code. The recently emerging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Manik Dhar , Sivakanth Gopi

We investigate the list decodability of symbol-pair codes in the present paper. Firstly, we show that list decodability of every symbol-pair code does not exceed the Gilbert-Varshamov bound. On the other hand, we are able to prove that with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Shu Liu , Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan

We present a construction of subspace codes along with an efficient algorithm for list decoding from both insertions and deletions, handling an information-theoretically maximum fraction of these with polynomially small rate. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Venkatesan Guruswami , Srivatsan Narayanan , Carol Wang

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

We introduce a new family of erasure codes, called group decodable code (GDC), for distributed storage system. Given a set of design parameters {\alpha; \beta; k; t}, where k is the number of information symbols, each codeword of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Wentu Song , Son Hoang Dau , Chau Yuen

This paper shows that there exist Reed--Solomon (RS) codes, over \black{exponentially} large finite fields \black{in the code length}, that are combinatorially list-decodable well beyond the Johnson radius, in fact almost achieving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo , Mary Wootters

The classical family of Reed-Solomon codes consist of evaluations of polynomials over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of degree less than $k$, at $n$ distinct field elements. These are arguably the most widely used and studied codes, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Neophytos Charalambides

Error-correcting codes are one of the most fundamental objects in pseudorandomness, with applications in communication, complexity theory, and beyond. Codes are useful because of their ability to support decoding, which is the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shashank Srivastava

It is always interesting and important to construct non-Reed-Solomon type MDS codes in coding theory and finite geometries. In this paper, we prove that there are non-Reed-Solomon type MDS codes from arbitrary genus algebraic curves. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Hao Chen

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

We investigate group coding for arbitrary finite groups acting linearly on a vector space. These yield robust codes based on real or complex matrix groups. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for correct subgroup decoding using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Hye Jung Kim , J. B. Nation , Anne V. Shepler

In this paper, we propose an efficient ordered-statistics decoding (OSD) algorithm with an adaptive Gaussian elimination (GE) reduction technique. The proposed decoder utilizes two decoding conditions to adaptively remove GE in OSD. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Chentao Yue , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li