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List-decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes beyond the so called Johnson radius has been one of the main open questions since the work of Guruswami and Sudan. It is now known by the work of Rudra and Wootters, using techniques from high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

This paper shows that there exist Reed--Solomon (RS) codes, over \black{exponentially} large finite fields \black{in the code length}, that are combinatorially list-decodable well beyond the Johnson radius, in fact almost achieving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo , Mary Wootters

We propose a new partial decoding algorithm for $m$-interleaved Reed--Solomon (IRS) codes that can decode, with high probability, a random error of relative weight $1-R^{\frac{m}{m+1}}$ at all code rates $R$, in time polynomial in the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen

In this paper we address the problem of decoding linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes beyond their unique decoding radius. We analyze the complexity in order to evaluate if the considered problem is of cryptographic relevance, i.e., can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are constructed over a finite field that have been widely employed in storage and communication systems. Many fast encoding/decoding algorithms such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) and modular approach are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Wenhao Liu , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Hanxu Hou

In a recent breakthrough [BGM23, GZ23, AGL23], it was shown that randomly punctured Reed-Solomon codes are list decodable with optimal list size with high probability, i.e., they attain the Singleton bound for list decoding [ST20, Rot22,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Noga Ron-Zewi , S. Venkitesh , Mary Wootters

We prove that Reed-Solomon (RS) codes with random evaluation points are list recoverable up to capacity with optimal output list size, for any input list size. Namely, given an input list size $\ell$, a designated rate $R$, and any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Dean Doron , S. Venkitesh

For the majority of the applications of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, hard decision decoding is based on syndromes. Recently, there has been renewed interest in decoding RS codes without using syndromes. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-08 Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan

A collection of sets satisfies a $(\delta,\varepsilon)$-proximity gap with respect to some property if for every set in the collection, either (i) all members of the set are $\delta$-close to the property in (relative) Hamming distance, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Lenny Liu , Pranav Rajpal

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are an important class of non-binary error-correction codes. They are particularly competent in correcting burst errors, being widely applied in modern communications and data storage systems. This also thanks to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiaoqian Ye , Jingyu Lin , Junjie Huang , Li Chen , Chang-An Zhao

Recently, a new polynomial basis over binary extension fields was proposed such that the fast Fourier transform (FFT) over such fields can be computed in the complexity of order $\mathcal{O}(n\lg(n))$, where $n$ is the number of points…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sian-Jheng Lin , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Yunghsiang S. Han

We present near-linear time list decoding algorithms (in the block-length $n$) for expander-based code constructions. More precisely, we show that (i) For every $\delta \in (0,1)$ and $\epsilon > 0$, there is an explicit family of good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Aman Singh

Error-correcting codes are a method for representing data, so that one can recover the original information even if some parts of it were corrupted. The basic idea, which dates back to the revolutionary work of Shannon and Hamming about a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Noga Ron-Zewi

Reed--Solomon error-correcting codes are ubiquitous across computer science and information theory, with applications in cryptography, computational complexity, communication and storage systems, and more. Most works on efficient error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chris Peikert , Alexandra Veliche Hostetler

The classical family of Reed-Solomon codes consist of evaluations of polynomials over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of degree less than $k$, at $n$ distinct field elements. These are arguably the most widely used and studied codes, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Neophytos Charalambides

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

We prove that a random linear code over F_q, with probability arbitrarily close to 1, is list decodable at radius (1-1/q-\epsilon) with list size L=O(1/\epsilon^2) and rate R=\Omega_q(\epsilon^2/(log^3(1/\epsilon))). Up to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ameya Velingker

Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for encoding data, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Michael O'Sullivan , Diego Ruano

We describe a new class of list decodable codes based on Galois extensions of function fields and present a list decoding algorithm. These codes are obtained as a result of folding the set of rational places of a function field using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-12 Ming-Deh Huang , Anand Kumar Narayanan

Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes are sum-rank metric codes that fulfill the Singleton bound with equality. In the two extreme cases of the sum-rank metric, they coincide with Reed-Solomon codes (Hamming metric) and Gabidulin codes (rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde