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We give a linear-time erasure list-decoding algorithm for expander codes. More precisely, let $r > 0$ be any integer. Given an inner code $C_0$ of length $d$, and a $d$-regular bipartite expander graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Noga Ron-Zewi , Mary Wootters , Gilles Zémor

We give a new framework based on graph regularity lemmas, for list decoding and list recovery of codes based on spectral expanders. Using existing algorithms for computing regularity decompositions of sparse graphs in (randomized)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

We develop new list decoding algorithms for Tanner codes and distance-amplified codes based on bipartite spectral expanders. We show that proofs exhibiting lower bounds on the minimum distance of these codes can be used as certificates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

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

We construct a new family of explicit codes that are list decodable to capacity and achieve an optimal list size of $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon})$. In contrast to existing explicit constructions of codes achieving list decoding capacity, our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Tushant Mittal , Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

Error-correcting codes are one of the most fundamental objects in pseudorandomness, with applications in communication, complexity theory, and beyond. Codes are useful because of their ability to support decoding, which is the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shashank Srivastava

Folded Reed-Solomon codes are an explicit family of codes that achieve the optimal trade-off between rate and error-correction capability: specifically, for any $\eps > 0$, the author and Rudra (2006,08) presented an $n^{O(1/\eps)}$ time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Venkatesan Guruswami

We show that expander codes, when properly instantiated, are high-rate list recoverable codes with linear-time list recovery algorithms. List recoverable codes have been useful recently in constructing efficiently list-decodable codes, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Brett Hemenway , Mary Wootters

We present an explicit and efficient algebraic construction of capacity-achieving list decodable codes with both constant alphabet and constant list sizes. More specifically, for any $R \in (0,1)$ and $\epsilon>0$, we give an algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zeyu Guo , Noga Ron-Zewi

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are a well-studied family of codes, known for achieving list decoding capacity. In this work, we give improved deterministic and randomized algorithms for list decoding FRS codes of rate $R$ up to radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Mursalin Habib , Shashank Srivastava

In this paper, we present improved decoding algorithms for expander-based Tanner codes. We begin by developing a randomized linear-time decoding algorithm that, under the condition that $ \delta d_0 > 2 $, corrects up to $ \alpha n $ errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhaienhe Zhou , Zeyu Guo

We give new constructions of two classes of algebraic code families which are efficiently list decodable with small output list size from a fraction $1-R-\epsilon$ of adversarial errors where $R$ is the rate of the code, for any desired…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Venkatesan Guruswami , Chaoping Xing

The decoding error probability of codes is studied as a function of their block length. It is shown that the existence of codes with a polynomially small decoding error probability implies the existence of codes with an exponentially small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexei Ashikhmin , Vitaly Skachek

Tanner codes are graph-based linear codes whose parity-check matrices can be characterized by a bipartite graph $G$ together with a linear inner code $C_0$. Expander codes are Tanner codes whose defining bipartite graph $G$ has good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kuan Cheng , Minghui Ouyang , Chong Shangguan , Yuanting Shen

Expander (Tanner) codes combine sparse graphs with local constraints, enabling linear-time decoding and asymptotically good distance--rate tradeoffs. A standard constraint-counting argument yields the global-rate lower bound $R\ge 2r-1$ for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Swastik Kopparty , Itzhak Tamo

We give a new construction of algebraic codes which are efficiently list decodable from a fraction $1-R-\eps$ of adversarial errors where $R$ is the rate of the code, for any desired positive constant $\eps$. The worst-case list size output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Venkatesan Guruswami , Chaoping Xing

We present error-correcting codes that achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate and error-correction radius. Specifically, for every $0 < R < 1$ and $\eps> 0$, we present an explicit construction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Venkatesan Guruswami , Atri Rudra

We study the classical expander codes, introduced by Sipser and Spielman \cite{SS96}. Given any constants $0< \alpha, \varepsilon < 1/2$, and an arbitrary bipartite graph with $N$ vertices on the left, $M < N$ vertices on the right, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xue Chen , Kuan Cheng , Xin Li , Minghui Ouyang

In this work, we consider the list-decodability and list-recoverability of codes in the zero-rate regime. Briefly, a code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq [q]^n$ is $(p,\ell,L)$-list-recoverable if for all tuples of input lists $(Y_1,\dots,Y_n)$ with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan , Yihan Zhang

A code $C \subseteq \F_2^n$ is a $(c,\epsilon,\delta)$-expander code if it has a Tanner graph, where every variable node has degree $c$, and every subset of variable nodes $L_0$ such that $|L_0|\leq \delta n$ has at least $\epsilon c |L_0|$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Michael Viderman
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