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Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes constitute an important class of error-correcting codes due to their optimal distance properties and their relevance in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we investigate the construction…

We propose a new partial decoding algorithm for $m$-interleaved Reed--Solomon (IRS) codes that can decode, with high probability, a random error of relative weight $1-R^{\frac{m}{m+1}}$ at all code rates $R$, in time polynomial in the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen

Modern spacecraft communication systems rely on concatenated error correction schemes, typically combining convolutional and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. This paper presents a decoder-side method that uses a machine learning model to estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Michael Greenwood , Robert Hunter

An iterative algorithm is presented for soft-input-soft-output (SISO) decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The proposed iterative algorithm uses the sum product algorithm (SPA) in conjunction with a binary parity check matrix of the RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

A large class of MDS linear codes is constructed. These codes are endowed with an efficient decoding algorithm. Both the definition of the codes and the design of their decoding algorithm only require from Linear Algebra methods, making…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 José Gómez-Torrecillas , Gabriel Navarro , José Patricio Sánchez-Hernández

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

The Welch--Berlekamp approach for Reed--Solomon (RS) codes forms a bridge between classical syndrome--based decoding algorithms and interpolation--based list--decoding procedures for list size l=1. It returns the univariate error--locator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Alexander Zeh , Christian Senger

Short-length Reed--Muller codes under majority-logic decoding are of particular importance for efficient hardware implementations in real-time and embedded systems. This paper significantly improves Chen's two-step majority-logic decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Peter Hauck , Michael Huber , Juliane Bertram , Dennis Brauchle , Sebastian Ziesche

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

In this paper we present a minimal list decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Minimal list decoding for a code $C$ refers to list decoding with radius $L$, where $L$ is the minimum of the distances between the received word…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mortuza Ali , Margreta Kuijper

The performance of Reed--Solomon codes (RS codes, for short) in the presence of insertion and deletion errors has attracted growing attention in recent literature. In this work, we further study this intriguing mathematical problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Peter Beelen , Roni Con , Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Eitan Yaakobi

We study the performance of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for the \em exact repair problem \em in distributed storage. Our main result is that, in some parameter regimes, Reed-Solomon codes are optimal regenerating codes, among MDS codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Mary Wootters

In coding theory, Reed-Solomon codes are one of the most well-known and widely used classes of error-correcting codes. In this thesis we study and compare two major strategies known for their decoding procedure, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Irene Giacomelli

Because of their importance in applications and their quite simple definition, Reed-Solomon codes can be explained in any introductory course on coding theory. However, decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are far from being simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Maria Bras-Amorós

We obtain a technique to reduce the computational complexity associated with decoding of Hermitian codes. In particular, we propose a method to compute the error locations and values using an uni-variate error locator and an uni-variate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-12 Rachit Agarwal

Error-correcting codes are combinatorial objects designed to cope with the problem of reliable transmission of information on a noisy channel. A fundamental problem in coding theory and practice is to efficiently decode the received word…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Haojie Gu , Jun Zhang

In this work, we consider the problem of efficient decoding of codes from insertions and deletions. Most of the known efficient codes are codes with synchronization strings which allow one to reduce the problem of decoding insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Anisha Banerjee , Roni Con , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

We consider the problem of correcting mass readout errors in information encoded in binary polymer strings. Our work builds on results for string reconstruction problems using composition multisets [Acharya et al., 2015] and the unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ryan Gabrys , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Olgica Milenkovic

The classical majority-logic decoder proposed by Reed for Reed-Muller codes RM(r, m) of order r and length 2^m, unfolds in r+1 sequential steps, decoding message symbols from highest to lowest degree. Several follow-up decoding algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

List recovery of error-correcting codes has emerged as a fundamental notion with broad applications across coding theory and theoretical computer science. Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rohan Goyal , Venkatesan Guruswami