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We study the distinguishability of linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes by defining and analyzing analogs of the square-code and the Overbeck distinguisher for classical Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes, respectively. Our main results show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz , Anna-Lena Horlemann

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

Motivated by recent developments in coding theory, particular in list-decoding, we introduce a new error model which we call semi-adversarial errors. This error model bridges between fully random errors and fully adversarial errors by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

We present error-correcting codes that achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate and error-correction radius. Specifically, for every $0 < R < 1$ and $\eps> 0$, we present an explicit construction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Venkatesan Guruswami , Atri Rudra

One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

In this paper, firstly, we study decoding of a general class of twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes and provide a precise characterization of the key equation for TGRS codes and propose a decoding algorithm. Secondly, we further…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Guodong Wang , Hongwei Liu , Jinquan Luo

Recently, Martinez-Penas and Kschischang (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2019) showed that lifted linearized Reed-Solomon codes are suitable codes for error control in multishot network coding. We show how to construct and decode lifted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

We consider decoding of vertically homogeneous interleaved sum-rank-metric codes with high interleaving order $s$, that are constructed by stacking $s$ codewords of a single constituent code. We propose a Metzner--Kapturowski-like decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Thomas Jerkovits , Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Folded Reed-Solomon codes are an explicit family of codes that achieve the optimal trade-off between rate and error-correction capability: specifically, for any $\eps > 0$, the author and Rudra (2006,08) presented an $n^{O(1/\eps)}$ time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Venkatesan Guruswami

In this article, we present a new construction of evaluation codes in the Hamming metric, which we call twisted Reed-Solomon codes. Whereas Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are MDS codes, this need not be the case for twisted RS codes. Nonetheless,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peter Beelen , Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are among the most ubiquitous codes due to their good parameters as well as efficient encoding and decoding procedures. However, RS codes suffer from having a fixed length. In many applications where the length is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Kyle Marshall , Michael E. O'Sullivan

Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

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

Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) and Gabidulin codes have been proposed for various code-based cryptosystems, though most such schemes without elaborate disguising techniques have been successfully attacked. Both code classes are prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Felicitas Hörmann , Anna-Lena Horlemann

Despite their exceptional error-correcting properties, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have been overlooked in distributed storage applications due to the common belief that they have poor repair bandwidth: A naive repair approach would require the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Han Mao Kiah , Olgica Milenkovic

The traditional definition of Integrated Interleaved (II) codes generally assumes that the component nested codes are either Reed-Solomon (RS) or shortened Reed-Solomon codes. By taking general classes of codes, we present a recursive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Mario Blaum

Traditionally, multi-trial error/erasure decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on Bounded Minimum Distance (BMD) decoders with an erasure option. Such decoders have error/erasure tradeoff factor L=2, which means that an error is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian Senger , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Martin Bossert , Victor V. Zyablov

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

The sum-rank metric generalizes the Hamming and rank metric by partitioning vectors into blocks and defining the total weight as the sum of the rank weights of these blocks, based on their matrix representation. In this work, we explore…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

For the majority of the applications of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, hard decision decoding is based on syndromes. Recently, there has been renewed interest in decoding RS codes without using syndromes. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-08 Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan