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We show that any q-ary code with sufficiently good distance can be randomly punctured to obtain, with high probability, a code that is list decodable up to radius $1 - 1/q - \epsilon$ with near-optimal rate and list sizes. Our results imply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Atri Rudra , Mary Wootters

Efficient decoding is crucial to high-throughput and power-sensitive wireless communication scenarios. A theoretical analysis of the performance-complexity tradeoff toward low-complexity decoding is required for a better understanding of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Qingqing Peng , Dawei Yin , Dongxu Chang , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Guiying Yan , Guanghui Wang

The inherent probabilistic nature of Large Language Models (LLMs) introduces an element of unpredictability, raising concerns about potential discrepancies in their output. This paper introduces an innovative approach aims to generate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Md Sadman Sakib , Yu Sun

Extreme classification problems are multiclass and multilabel classification problems where the number of outputs is so large that straightforward strategies are neither statistically nor computationally viable. One strategy for dealing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-05 Paul Mineiro , Nikos Karampatziakis

Over the past 30 years numerous algorithms have been designed for symmetry breaking problems in the LOCAL model, such as maximal matching, MIS, vertex coloring, and edge-coloring. For most problems the best randomized algorithm is at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Yi-Jun Chang , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Seth Pettie

In this paper, we derive entrywise error bounds for low-rank approximations of kernel matrices obtained using the truncated eigen-decomposition (or singular value decomposition). While this approximation is well-known to be optimal with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Alexander Modell

We consider the branch-length estimation problem on a bifurcating tree: a character evolves along the edges of a binary tree according to a two-state symmetric Markov process, and we seek to recover the edge transition probabilities from…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-30 David Clancy , Hanbaek Lyu , Sebastien Roch

We consider the problem of error control in a coded, multicast network, focusing on the scenario where the errors can occur only on a proper subset of the network edges. We model this problem via an adversarial noise, presenting a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Allison Beemer , Altan Berdan Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

An efficient decoding algorithm for horizontally u-interleaved LRPC codes is proposed and analyzed. Upper bounds on the decoding failure rate and the computational complexity of the algorithm are derived. It is shown that interleaving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Julian Renner , Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz

We show that locally repairable codes (LRCs) can be list decoded efficiently beyond the Johnson radius for a large range of parameters by utilizing the local error correction capabilities. The new decoding radius is derived and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Assuming iterative decoding for binary erasure channels (BECs), a novel tree-based technique for upper bounding the bit error rates (BERs) of arbitrary, finite low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is provided and the resulting bound can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chih-Chun Wang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

Rooted trees with probabilities are used to analyze properties of a variable length code. A bound is derived on the difference between the entropy rates of the code and a memoryless source. The bound is in terms of normalized informational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-11 Georg Böcherer , Rana Ali Amjad

This paper studies multiuser random coding techniques for channel coding with a given (possibly suboptimal) decoding rule. For the mismatched discrete memoryless multiple-access channel, an error exponent is obtained that is tight with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In this paper, we propose a policy-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) decoder that achieves near maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD) performance for short block codes. The MCTS decoder searches for test error patterns (TEPs) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Y. Tian , C. Yue , P. Cheng , G. Pang , B. Vucetic , Y. Li

This paper presents a stochastic algorithm for iterative error control decoding. We show that the stochastic decoding algorithm is an approximation of the sum-product algorithm. When the code's factor graph is a tree, as with trellises, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chris Winstead , Anthony Rapley , Vincent C. Gaudet , Christian Schlegel

We consider a molecular channel, in which messages are encoded to the frequency of objects in a pool, and whose output during reading time is a noisy version of the input frequencies, as obtained by sampling with replacement from the pool.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ran Tamir , Nir Weinberger

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

In this paper, we propose a column by column encoding scheme suitable for two-dimensional (2D) constraint codes and derive a lower bound of its maximum achievable rate. It is shown that the maximum achievable rate is equal to the largest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Kazuya Hirata , Tadashi Wadayama

We study the Maximum Cardinality Matching (MCM) and the Maximum Weight Matching (MWM) problems, on trees and on some special classes of graphs, in the Online Preemptive and the Incremental Dynamic Graph models. In the {\em Online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Sumedh Tirodkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

A symbolic-computational algorithm, fully implemented in Maple, is described, that computes explicit expressions for generating functions that enable the efficient computations of the expectation, variance, and higher moments, of the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Andrew Lohr , Doron Zeilberger