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An $(m,n,a,b)$-tensor code consists of $m\times n$ matrices whose columns satisfy `$a$' parity checks and rows satisfy `$b$' parity checks (i.e., a tensor code is the tensor product of a column code and row code). Tensor codes are useful in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

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

Reed--Solomon error-correcting codes are ubiquitous across computer science and information theory, with applications in cryptography, computational complexity, communication and storage systems, and more. Most works on efficient error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chris Peikert , Alexandra Veliche Hostetler

In list-decodable learning, we are given a set of data points such that an $\alpha$-fraction of these points come from a nice distribution $D$, for some small $\alpha \ll 1$, and the goal is to output a short list of candidate solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyun Chen , Spencer Compton , Daniel Kane , Jerry Li

List decoding of insertions and deletions in the Levenshtein metric is considered. The Levenshtein distance between two sequences is the minimum number of insertions and deletions needed to turn one of the sequences into the other. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Explicit non-asymptotic upper bounds on the sizes of multiple-deletion correcting codes are presented. In particular, the largest single-deletion correcting code for $q$-ary alphabet and string length $n$ is shown to be of size at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Ankur A. Kulkarni , Negar Kiyavash

A binary code is said to be a disjunctive list-decoding $s_L$-code, $s\ge1$, $L\ge1$, (briefly, LD $s_L$-code) if the code is identified by the incidence matrix of a family of finite sets in which the union of any $s$ sets can cover not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-10 A. G. Dyachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

Error-correcting codes are a method for representing data, so that one can recover the original information even if some parts of it were corrupted. The basic idea, which dates back to the revolutionary work of Shannon and Hamming about a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Noga Ron-Zewi

We investigate the distance properties of linear locally recoverable codes (LRC codes) with all-symbol locality and availability. New upper and lower bounds on the minimum distance of such codes are derived. The upper bound is based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Stanislav Kruglik , Alexey Frolov

We consider list versions of sparse approximation problems, where unlike the existing results in sparse approximation that consider situations with unique solutions, we are interested in multiple solutions. We introduce these problems and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Anna C. Gilbert , Hung Q. Ngo , Atri Rudra

Traditional error-correcting codes (ECCs) assume a fixed message length, but many scenarios involve ongoing or indefinite transmissions where the message length is not known in advance. For example, when streaming a video, the user should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Klim Efremenko , Or Zamir

This work continues the study of linear error correcting codes against adversarial insertion deletion errors (insdel errors). Previously, the work of Cheng, Guruswami, Haeupler, and Li \cite{CGHL21} showed the existence of asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kuan Cheng , Zhengzhong Jin , Xin Li , Zhide Wei , Yu Zheng

We consider binary error correcting codes when errors are deletions. A basic challenge concerning deletion codes is determining $p_0^{(adv)}$, the zero-rate threshold of adversarial deletions, defined to be the supremum of all $p$ for which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li

A code is locally recoverable when each symbol in one of its code words can be reconstructed as a function of $r$ other symbols. We use bundles of projective spaces over a line to construct locally recoverable codes with availability; that…

One peculiarity with deletion-correcting codes is that perfect $t$-deletion-correcting codes of the same length over the same alphabet can have different numbers of codewords, because the balls of radius $t$ with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Yeow Meng Chee , Gennian Ge , Alan C. H. Ling

We present simple constructions of optimal erasure-correcting LRC codes by exhibiting their parity-check matrices. When the number of local parities in a parity group plus the number of global parities is smaller than the size of the parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Mario Blaum

In this paper we investigate bounds on rate and minimum distance of codes with $t$ availability. We present bounds on minimum distance of a code with $t$ availability that are tighter than existing bounds. For bounds on rate of a code with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

We propose a list-decoding scheme for reconstruction codes in the context of uniform-tandem-duplication noise, which can be viewed as an application of the associative memory model to this setting. We find the uncertainty associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Moshe Schwartz

This paper studies the cardinality of codes correcting insertions and deletions. We give improved upper and lower bounds on code size. Our upper bound is obtained by utilizing the asymmetric property of list decoding for insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kenji Yasunaga

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin