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In this work, we present an abstract framework for some algebraic error-correcting codes with the aim of capturing codes that are list-decodable to capacity, along with their decoding algorithm. In the polynomial ideal framework, a code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siddharth Bhandari , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Madhu Sudan

Many images and videos are primarily processed by computer vision algorithms, involving only occasional human inspection. When this content requires compression before processing, e.g., in distributed applications, coding methods must…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Samuel Fernández-Menduiña , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (insdel) errors, a topic that has recently gained a lot of attention. We construct linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roni Con , Amir Shpilka , Itzhak Tamo

A covering code is a set of codewords with the property that the union of balls, suitably defined, around these codewords covers an entire space. Generally, the goal is to find the covering code with the minimum size codebook. While most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Andreas Lenz , Cyrus Rashtchian , Paul H. Siegel , Eitan Yaakobi

We speed up existing decoding algorithms for three code classes in different metrics: interleaved Gabidulin codes in the rank metric, lifted interleaved Gabidulin codes in the subspace metric, and linearized Reed-Solomon codes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hannes Bartz , Thomas Jerkovits , Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. In this paper, we address…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

Reed-Muller codes are among the most important classes of locally correctable codes. Currently local decoding of Reed-Muller codes is based on decoding on lines or quadratic curves to recover one single coordinate. To recover multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ronald Cramer , Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan

We propose to reduce the decoding complexity of polar codes with non-Arikan kernels by employing a (near) ML decoding algorithm for the codes generated by kernel rows. A generalization of the order statistics algorithm is presented for soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Peter Trifonov

This thesis makes several significant contributions to the theory of both Regenerating (RG) and Locally Recoverable (LR) codes. The two principal contributions are characterizing the optimal rate of an LR code designed to recover from $t$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

This paper addresses fundamental challenges in two-dimensional error correction by constructing optimal codes for \emph{criss-cross deletions}. We consider an $ n \times n $ array $\boldsymbol{X}$ over a $ q $-ary alphabet $\Sigma_q := \{0,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

In this paper, we present an efficiently encodable and decodable code construction that is capable of correction a burst of deletions of length at most $k$. The redundancy of this code is $\log n + k(k+1)/2\log \log n+c_k$ for some constant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Andreas Lenz , Nikita Polyanskii

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

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes were introduced to extend the algebraic capabilities of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. This extension holds the potential for constructing new non-GRS maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Guanghui Zhang , Liren Lin , Bocong Chen

Codes over rings, especially over Galois rings, have been extensively studied for nearly three decades due to their similarity to linear codes over finite fields. A distributed storage system uses a linear code to encode a large file across…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Daniel P. Bossaller , Hiram H. López

For communication systems with heavy burst noise, an optimal Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme is expected to have a large burst error correction capacity while simultaneously owning moderate random error correction capability. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Z. Wang , A. Chini , M. Kilani , J. Zhou

We introduce Reed-Solomon-Gabidulin codes which is, at the same time, an extension to Reed-Solomon codes on the one hand and Gabidulin codes on the other hand. We prove that our codes have good properties with respect to the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Xavier Caruso , Amaury Durand

Starting from a practical use of Reed-Solomon codes in a cryptographic scheme published in Indocrypt'09, this paper deals with the threshold of linear $q$-ary error-correcting codes. The security of this scheme is based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Bruno Kindarji , Gérard Cohen , Hervé Chabanne

MDS (maximum distance separable) array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with r redundancy nodes can correct any r erasures by accessing (reading)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

We consider error decoding of locally repairable codes (LRC) and partial MDS (PMDS) codes through interleaved decoding. For a specific class of LRCs we investigate the success probability of interleaved decoding. For PMDS codes we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes, a subclass of lifted affine-invariant codes, have been shown to be of high rate while preserving locality properties similar to generalized Reed-Muller codes, which they contain as subcodes. This work introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Lukas Holzbaur , Nikita Polyanskii