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The performance of Reed--Solomon codes (RS codes, for short) in the presence of insertion and deletion errors has attracted growing attention in recent literature. In this work, we further study this intriguing mathematical problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Peter Beelen , Roni Con , Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Eitan Yaakobi

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

A family of error-correcting codes is list-decodable from error fraction $p$ if, for every code in the family, the number of codewords in any Hamming ball of fractional radius $p$ is less than some integer $L$ that is independent of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Jonathan Mosheiff , Nicolas Resch , Shashwat Silas , Mary Wootters

The repair problem in distributed storage addresses recovery of the data encoded using an erasure code, for instance, a Reed-Solomon (RS) code. We consider the problem of repairing a single node or multiple nodes in RS-coded storage systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Subspace codes were introduced in order to correct errors and erasures for randomized network coding, in the case where network topology is unknown (the noncoherent case). Subspace codes are indeed collections of subspaces of a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

In this work, we give the first construction of high-rate locally list-recoverable codes. List-recovery has been an extremely useful building block in coding theory, and our motivation is to use these codes as such a building block. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Brett Hemenway , Noga Ron-Zewi , Mary Wootters

Despite their exceptional error-correcting properties, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have been overlooked in distributed storage applications due to the common belief that they have poor repair bandwidth: A naive repair approach would require the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Han Mao Kiah , Olgica Milenkovic

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are MDS codes which allow for recovery of any single erased symbol with optimal repair bandwidth, based on the smallest possible fraction of the contents downloaded from each of the other symbols.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Haotian Jiang

We establish an equivalence between two important random ensembles of linear codes: random linear codes (RLCs) and random Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Specifically, we show that these models exhibit identical behavior with respect to key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Matan Levi , Jonathan Mosheiff , Nikhil Shagrithaya

Distributed storage systems for large clusters typically use replication to provide reliability. Recently, erasure codes have been used to reduce the large storage overhead of three-replicated systems. Reed-Solomon codes are the standard…

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

Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

Coding for distributed storage gives rise to a new set of problems in coding theory related to the need of reducing inter-node communication in the system. A large number of recent papers addressed the problem of optimizing the total amount…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We prove the following results concerning the list decoding of error-correcting codes: (i) We show that for \textit{any} code with a relative distance of $\delta$ (over a large enough alphabet), the following result holds for \textit{random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Atri Rudra , Steve Uurtamo

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

In this work, we prove new results concerning the combinatorial properties of random linear codes. Firstly, we prove a lower bound on the list-size required for random linear codes over $\mathbb F_q$ $\varepsilon$-close to capacity to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan

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

Algebraic codes that achieve list decoding capacity were recently constructed by a careful ``folding'' of the Reed-Solomon code. The ``low-degree'' nature of this folding operation was crucial to the list decoding algorithm. We show how…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Venkatesan Guruswami

A code over a finite alphabet is called locally recoverable (LRC) if every symbol in the encoding is a function of a small number (at most $r$) other symbols. We present a family of LRC codes that attain the maximum possible value of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg

The sum-rank metric is a hybrid between the Hamming metric and the rank metric and suitable for error correction in multishot network coding and distributed storage as well as for the design of quantum-resistant cryptosystems. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz