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We introduce generalized function-correcting partition codes (GFCPCs) that simultaneously protect multiple partitions of the message space against different numbers of errors. Given partitions with respective distance requirements, a GFCPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Charul Rajput , Mahak , V. Lalitha

Symbol-pair codes, introduced by Cassuto and Blaum [1], have been raised for symbol-pair read channels. This new idea is motivated by the limitation of the reading process in high-density data storage technologies. Yaakobi et al. [8]…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Hojjat Mostafanasab , Esra Sengelen Sevim

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

We introduce two notions of discrepancy between binary vectors, which are not metric functions in general but nonetheless capture the mathematical structure of the binary asymmetric channel. In turn, these lead to two new fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Alberto Ravagnani

Binary code similarity detection is to detect the similarity of code at binary (assembly) level without source code. Existing works have their limitations when dealing with mutated binary code generated by different compiling options. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zian Liu

The construction of asymmetric error correcting codes is a topic that was studied extensively, however, the existing approach for code construction assumes that every codeword should tolerate $t$ asymmetric errors. Our main observation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Hongchao Zhou , Anxiao , Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

Recently, Yaakobi et al. introduced codes for $b$-symbol read channels, where the read operation is performed as a consecutive sequence of $b>2$ symbols. In this paper, we establish a Singleton-type bound on $b$-symbol codes. Codes meeting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Baokun Ding , Tao Zhang , Gennian Ge

We study segmented burst-deletion channels motivated by the observation that synchronization errors commonly occur in a bursty manner in real-world settings. In this channel model, transmitted sequences are implicitly divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

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

In this paper, we introduce a class of functions that assume only a limited number $\lambda$ of values within a given Hamming $\rho$-ball and call them locally $(\rho, \lambda)$-bounded functions. We develop function-correcting codes (FCCs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

The problem of blind identification of channel codes at a receiver involves identifying a code chosen by a transmitter from a known code-family, by observing the transmitted codewords through the channel. Most existing approaches for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Pramod Singh , Prasad Krishnan , Arti Yardi

Reading channels where $b$-tuples of adjacent symbols are read at every step have e.g.\ applications in storage. Corresponding bounds and constructions of codes for the $b$-symbol metric, especially the pair-symbol metric where $b=2$, were…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sascha Kurz

The importance of quantum error correction in paving the way to build a practical quantum computer is no longer in doubt. This dissertation makes a threefold contribution to the mathematical theory of quantum error-correcting codes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-16 Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli

The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem that is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Giuseppe Durisi , Thomas Jerkovits , Gianluigi Liva , William Ryan , Brian Stein , Fabian Steiner

Generalized bicycle (GB) codes have emerged as a promising class of quantum error-correcting codes with practical decoding capabilities. While numerous asymptotically good quantum codes and quantum low-density parity-check code…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Olai Å. Mostad , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , De-Shih Lee , Ching-Yi Lai

The symbol-pair codes over finite fields have been raised for symbol-pair read channels and motivated by application of high-density data storage technologies [1, 2]. Their generalization is the code for b-symbol read channels (b > 2). Many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Minghui Yang , Jin Li , Keqin Feng

Error-correction codes are central for fault-tolerant information processing. Here we develop a rigorous framework to describe various coding models based on quantum resource theory of superchannels. We find, by treating codings as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Dong-Sheng Wang , Yuan-Dong Liu , Yun-Jiang Wang , Shunlong Luo

Function-correcting codes, introduced by Lenz, Bitar, Wachter-Zeh, and Yaakobi, protect specific function values of a message rather than the entire message. A central challenge is determining the optimal redundancy -- the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gennian Ge , Zixiang Xu , Xiande Zhang , Yijun Zhang

This paper examines the maximum code rate achievable by a data-driven communication system over some unknown discrete memoryless channel in the finite blocklength regime. A class of channel codes, called learning-based channel codes, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Neil Irwin Bernardo , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

Motivated by signal processing, we present a new class of channel codes, called signal codes, for continuous-alphabet channels. Signal codes are lattice codes whose encoding is done by convolving an integer information sequence with a fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ofir Shalvi , Naftali Sommer , Meir Feder