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We propose an efficient algorithm to find a Reed-Solomon (RS) codeword at a distance within the covering radius of the code from any point in its ambient Hamming space. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first attempt of its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Samin Riasat , Hessam Mahdavifar

Aiming to recover the data from several concurrent node failures, linear $r$-LRC codes with locality $r$ were extended into $(r, \delta)$-LRC codes with locality $(r, \delta)$ which can enable the local recovery of a failed node in case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Li Xu , Zhengchun Zhou , Jun Zhang , Sihem Mesnager

We analyze the list-decodability, and related notions, of random linear codes. This has been studied extensively before: there are many different parameter regimes and many different variants. Previous works have used complementary styles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Atri Rudra , Mary Wootters

In this paper, it is shown that the syndromes of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and alternant codes can be characterized in terms of inverse fast Fourier transform, regardless of code definitions. Then a fast decoding algorithm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Nianqi Tang , Yunghsiang S. Han , Danyang Pei , Chao Chen

We prove the following results concerning the list decoding of error-correcting codes: (i) We show that for \textit{any} code with a relative distance of $\delta$ (over a large enough alphabet), the following result holds for \textit{random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Atri Rudra , Steve Uurtamo

In this paper, we propose a new ensemble of rateless forward error correction (FEC) codes. The proposed codes are serially concatenated codes with Reed-Solomon (RS) codes as outer codes and Kite codes as inner codes. The inner Kite codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-27 Xiao Ma , Kai Zhang , Baoming Bai , Xiaoyi Zhang

We construct the first (locally computable, approximately) locally list decodable codes with rate, efficiency, and error tolerance approaching the information theoretic limit, a core regime of interest for the complexity theoretic task of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yotam Dikstein , Max Hopkins , Russell Impagliazzo , Toniann Pitassi

We investigate additive codes, defined as $\mathbb{F}_q$-linear subspaces $C \subseteq \mathbb{F}_{q^h}^n$ of length $n$ and dimension $r$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$. An additive code is said to be of type $[n, r/h, d]_q^h$, where $d$ denotes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Daniele Bartoli , Alessandro Giannoni , Giuseppe Marino , Yue Zhou

Some new results are derived concerning random coding error exponents and expurgated exponents for list decoding with a deterministic list size $L$. Two asymptotic regimes are considered, the fixed list-size regime, where $L$ is fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Local Reconstruction Codes (LRCs) have emerged as the codes of choice for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami , Sergey Yekhanin

A $q$-ary $(n,k,r)$ locally repairable code (LRC) is an $[n,k,d]$ linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ such that every code symbol can be recovered by accessing at most $r$ other code symbols. The well-known Singleton-like bound says that $d \le…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Jie Hao , Shu-Tao Xia , Kenneth W. Shum , Bin Chen , Fang-Wei Fu , Yi-Xian Yang

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) with $(r,\delta)$ locality were introduced by Prakash \emph{et al.} into distributed storage systems (DSSs) due to their benefit of locally repairing at least $\delta-1$ erasures via other $r$ survival nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Bin Chen , Weijun Fang , Yueqi Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu , Xiangyu Chen

Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

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

In this paper, two classes of twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes with multi-twists are studied. Firstly, some sufficient and necessary conditions for these codes to be self-orthogonal and self-dual are established. Then several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yanxin Chen , Yanli Wang , Tongjiang Yan

Locally repairable codes, or locally recoverable codes (LRC for short) are designed for application in distributed and cloud storage systems. Similar to classical block codes, there is an important bound called the Singleton-type bound for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Lingfei Jin , Liming Ma , Chaoping Xing

By a locally recoverable code (LRC), we will in this paper, mean a linear code in which a given code symbol can be recovered by taking a linear combination of at most $r$ other code symbols with $r << k$. A natural extension is to the local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 S. B. Balaji , Ganesh R. Kini , P. Vijay Kumar

We prove a list recovery guarantee for random low-rate linear codes over sufficiently large prime fields. For fixed dimension $d$, error fraction $\alpha$, and accuracy parameter $\varepsilon$, a random $d$-dimensional linear code $C…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Isaac M Hair , Amit Sahai

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal where the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. Twisted Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields were introduced in 2017, which are generalization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

We study linear exact repair for $(n,k,\ell)$ MDS array codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$, with redundancy $r=n-k$, in the regime where $q$, $r$, and $\ell$ are fixed and the code length $n$ varies. A recent projective counting argument gives a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Huawei Wu