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We give an overview of the Hidden Subgroup Problem (HSP) as of July 2010, including new results discovered since the survey of arXiv:quant-ph/0411037v1. We recall how the problem provides a framework for efficient quantum algorithms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Frédéric Wang

In this paper, a new algebraic soft-decision decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon code is presented. It is based on rational interpolation and the interpolation points are constructed by Berlekamp-Messay algorithm. Unlike the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Yuan Zhu , Siyun Tang

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

The sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a communication setting in which a sender transmits a codeword and the receiver observes K independent noisy versions of this codeword. In this work, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shubhransh Singhvi , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

Quantum technologies have the potential to solve certain computationally hard problems with polynomial or super-polynomial speedups when compared to classical methods. Unfortunately, the unstable nature of quantum information makes it prone…

Efficient and scalable decoding of quantum codes is essential for high-performance quantum error correction. In this work, we introduce Reliable Subset Reduction (RSR), a reliability-driven preprocessing framework that leverages belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Ching-Feng Kung , Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai

Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) promises superpolynomial speedups for structured optimization; however, its practical realization is often hindered by significant sensitivity to hardware noise and spectral dispersion. To bridge this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Fumin Wang

The development of practical, high-performance decoding algorithms reduces the resource cost of fault-tolerant quantum computing. Here we propose a decoder for the surface code that finds low-weight correction operators for errors produced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Asmae Benhemou , Kaavya Sahay , Lingling Lao , Benjamin J. Brown

Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) is a recently proposed quantum optimization algorithm that exploits sparsity in the Fourier spectrum of objective functions, with the potential for exponential speedups over classical algorithms on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Kaifeng Bu , Weichen Gu , Dax Enshan Koh , Xiang Li

We study the complexity of Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm for approximate optimization. First, we show that the algorithm resists classical simulation strategies based on locating outputs with large probabilities.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Kunal Marwaha , Bill Fefferman , Alexandru Gheorghiu , Vojtech Havlicek

Given a classical error-correcting block code, the task of quantum list decoding is to produce from any quantumly corrupted codeword a short list containing all messages whose codewords exhibit high "presence" in the quantumly corrupted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Tomoyuki Yamakami

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

Quantum error correction, which utilizes logical qubits that are encoded as redundant multiple physical qubits to find and correct errors in physical qubits, is indispensable for practical quantum computing. Surface code is considered to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hoshitaro Ohnishi , Hideo Mukai

The main computational steps in algebraic soft-decoding, as well as Sudan-type list-decoding, of Reed-Solomon codes are bivariate polynomial interpolation and factorization. We introduce a computational technique, based upon re-encoding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ralf Koetter , Jun Ma , Alexander Vardy

In this paper we present a modification of Reed-Solomon codes that beats the Guruwami-Sudan $1-\sqrt{R}$ decoding radius of Reed-Solomon codes at low rates $R$. The idea is to choose Reed-Solomon codes $U$ and $V$ with appropriate rates in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Irene Márquez-Corbella , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Establishing the complexity of {\em Bounded Distance Decoding} for Reed-Solomon codes is a fundamental open problem in coding theory, explicitly asked by Guruswami and Vardy (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2005). The problem is motivated by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Venkata Gandikota , Badih Ghazi , Elena Grigorescu

The integer factorization problem (IFP) underpins the security of RSA, yet becomes efficiently solvable on a quantum computer through Shor's algorithm. Regev's recent high-dimensional variant reduces the circuit size through lattice-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Wentao Yang , Bao Yan , Muxi Zheng , Quanfeng Lu , Shijie Wei , Gui-Lu Long

We propose a new interpolation-based error decoding algorithm for $(n,k)$ Reed-Solomon (RS) codes over a finite field of size $q$, where $n=q-1$ is the length and $k$ is the dimension. In particular, we employ the fast Fourier transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wrya K. Kadir , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

Topological error correcting codes, and particularly the surface code, currently provide the most feasible roadmap towards large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. As such, obtaining fast and flexible decoding algorithms for these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Ryan Sweke , Markus S. Kesselring , Evert P. L. van Nieuwenburg , Jens Eisert

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