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One of the greatest efforts of computational scientists is to translate the mathematical model describing a class of physical phenomena into large and complex codes. Many of these codes face the difficulty of implementing the mathematical…

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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 study the convergence rate of a hierarchy of upper bounds for polynomial optimization problems, proposed by Lasserre [SIAM J. Optim. 21(3) (2011), pp. 864-885], and a related hierarchy by De Klerk, Hess and Laurent [SIAM J. Optim. 27(1),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Etienne de Klerk , Monique Laurent

Graphical models with High Order Potentials (HOPs) have received considerable interest in recent years. While there are a variety of approaches to inference in these models, nearly all of them amount to solving a linear program (LP)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Elad Mezuman , Daniel Tarlow , Amir Globerson , Yair Weiss

List-decoding and list-recovery are important generalizations of unique decoding that received considerable attention over the years. However, the optimal trade-off among list-decoding (resp. list-recovery) radius, list size, and the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

This paper provides a semidefinite programming hierarchy based on state polynomial optimization to determine the existence of quantum codes with given parameters. The hierarchy is complete, in the sense that a $(\!(n, K, {\delta})\!)_2$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Gerard Anglès Munné , Andrew Nemec , Felix Huber

In this paper, we develop a new decoding algorithm of a binary linear codes for symbol-pair read channels. Symbol-pair read channel has recently been introduced by Cassuto and Blaum to model channels with high write resolution but low read…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Shunsuke Horii , Toshiyasu Matsushima , Shigeichi Hirasawa

This thesis explores algorithmic applications and limitations of convex relaxation hierarchies for approximating some discrete and continuous optimization problems. - We show a dichotomy of approximability of constraint satisfaction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Mrinalkanti Ghosh

This paper is focused on the performance analysis of binary linear block codes (or ensembles) whose transmission takes place over independent and memoryless parallel channels. New upper bounds on the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 I. Sason , I. Goldenberg

We study uniquely decodable codes and list decodable codes in the high-noise regime, specifically codes that are uniquely decodable from $\frac{1-\varepsilon}{2}$ fraction of errors and list decodable from $1-\varepsilon$ fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xin Li , Songtao Mao

Factor-revealing linear programs (LPs) and policy-revealing LPs arise in various contexts of algorithm design and analysis. They are commonly used techniques for analyzing the performance of approximation and online algorithms, especially…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Pan Xu

We study optimization programs given by a bilinear form over non-commutative variables subject to linear inequalities. Problems of this form include the entangled value of two-prover games, entanglement-assisted coding for classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Volkher B. Scholz

We generalize the fundamental bounds of Delsarte thesis (1973) on codes of given degree and designs of given strength in the new setting of Bannai et al. (2025). We assume the scheme is weakly metric in the sense of (Sol\'e, 1989). We give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Minjia Shi , Jing Wang , Patrick Solé

We give new proofs of asymptotic upper bounds of coding theory obtained within the frame of Delsarte's linear programming method. The proofs rely on the analysis of eigenvectors of some finite-dimensional operators related to orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Alexander Barg , Dmitry Nogin

Random (dv,dc)-regular LDPC codes are well-known to achieve the Shannon capacity of the binary symmetric channel (for sufficiently large dv and dc) under exponential time decoding. However, polynomial time algorithms are only known to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Badih Ghazi , Euiwoong Lee

In this paper we introduce a new operation for Linear Programming (LP), called LP complementation, which resembles many properties of LP duality. Given a maximisation (resp.~minimisation) LP $P$, we define its complement $Q$ as a specific…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Maximilien Gadouleau , George B. Mertzios , Viktor Zamaraev

This paper considers a base station that delivers packets to multiple receivers through a sequence of coded transmissions. All receivers overhear the same transmissions. Each receiver may already have some of the packets as side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely

Linear programming (LP) decoding approximates maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of a linear block code by relaxing the equivalent ML integer programming (IP) problem into a more easily solved LP problem. The LP problem is defined by a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Xiaojie Zhang , Paul H. Siegel

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are a class of codes designed for the local correction of erasures. They have received considerable attention in recent years due to their applications in distributed storage. Most existing results on LRCs do…

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