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The generalized Hamming weight (GHW) $d_r(C)$ of linear codes $C$ is a natural generalization of the minimum Hamming distance $d(C)(=d_1(C))$ and has become one of important research objects in coding theory since Wei's originary work [23]…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Minghui Yang , Jin Li , Keqin Feng , Dongdai Lin

The generalized Hamming weights (GHWs) are fundamental parameters of linear codes. In this paper, we investigate the generalized Hamming weights of two classes of linear codes constructed from defining sets and determine them completely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Gaopeng Jian

The weighted-Hamming metric generalizes the Hamming metric by assigning different weights to blocks of coordinates. It is well-suited for applications such as coding over independent parallel channels, each of which has a different level of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

Few-weight codes have been constructed and studied for many years, since their fascinating relations to finite geometries, strongly regular graphs and Boolean functions. Simplex codes are one-weight Griesmer $[\frac{q^k-1}{q-1},k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xu Pan , Hao Chen , Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

The distance of a stabilizer quantum code is a very important feature since it determines the number of errors that can be detected and corrected. We present three new fast algorithms and implementations for computing the symplectic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Fernando Hernando , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Markus Grassl

In this work, we explore the relationship between free resolution of some monomial ideals and Generalized Hamming Weights (GHWs) of binary codes. More precisely, we look for a structure smaller than the set of codewords of minimal support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Ignacio García-Marco , Irene Márquez-Corbella , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Yuriko Pitones

Binary codes are widely used to represent the data due to their small storage and efficient computation. However, there exists an ambiguity problem that lots of binary codes share the same Hamming distance to a query. To alleviate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu

We propose a unified theory of generalized weights for linear codes endowed with an arbitrary distance. Instead of relying on supports or anticodes, the weights of a code are defined via the intersections of the code with a chosen family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Andrea Di Giusto , Elisa Gorla , Alberto Ravagnani

Weighted Hamming distance, as a similarity measure between binary codes and binary queries, provides superior accuracy in search tasks than Hamming distance. However, how to efficiently and accurately find $K$ binary codes that have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Ruixin Liu

The generalized Hamming weights (GHWs) of linear codes are fundamental parameters, the knowledge of which is of great interest in many applications. However, to determine the GHWs of linear codes is difficult in general. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Maosheng Xiong , Shuxing Li , Gennian Ge

Linear codes with a few weights have been widely investigated in recent years. In this paper, we mainly use Gauss sums to represent the Hamming weights of a class of $q$-ary linear codes under some certain conditions, where $q$ is a power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Ziling Heng , Qin Yue

We propose an algorithm using the Gaussian elimination method to find the minimal Hamming distance and decode received messages of linear codes. This algorithm is easy to implement as it requires no Gr\"obner bases to compute solutions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tianshuo Yang

Projective Reed-Muller codes correspond to subcodes of the Reed-Muller code in which the polynomials being evaluated to yield codewords, are restricted to be homogeneous. The Generalized Hamming Weights (GHW) of a code ${\cal C}$, identify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , P. Vijay Kumar

We present a new general method for performing basic arithmetic in the finite field~$\mathbb{F}_p$ for any prime $p>2$ by using traditional binary operations over~$\mathbb{F}_2$. Our new approach is efficient and competitive with current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Fernando Hernando , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí

The minimum distance of a linear code is a key concept in information theory. Therefore, the time required by its computation is very important to many problems in this area. In this paper, we introduce a family of implementations of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Fernando Hernando , Francisco D. Igual

Binary codes have been widely used in vision problems as a compact feature representation to achieve both space and time advantages. Various methods have been proposed to learn data-dependent hash functions which map a feature vector to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Jie Feng , Wei Liu , Yan Wang

Given a binary nonlinear code, we provide a deterministic algorithm to compute its weight and distance distribution, and in particular its minimum weight and its minimum distance, which takes advantage of fast Fourier techniques. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Emanuele Bellini , Massimiliano Sala

This text contains some notes on the Griesmer bound. In particular, we give a geometric proof of the Griesmer bound for the generalized weights and show that a Solomon--Stiffler type construction attains it if the minimum distance is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Sascha Kurz , Ivan Landjev , Assia Rousseva

It was recently shown that RGHW (relative generalized Hamming weight) exactly expresses the security of linear ramp secret sharing scheme. In this paper we determine the true value of the asymptotic metric for RGHW previously proposed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

The generalized Hamming weights (GHWs) of a linear code C extend the concept of minimum distance, which is the minimum cardinality of the support of all one-dimensional subspaces of C, to the minimum cardinality of the support of all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Cícero Carvalho , Hiram H. López , Rodrigo San-José
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