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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

We consider a coded compressed sensing approach for the unsourced random access and replace the outer tree code proposed by Amalladinne et al. with the list recoverable code capable of correcting t errors. A finite-length random coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

Minimum storage regenerating codes have minimum storage of data in each node and therefore are maximal distance separable (MDS for short) codes. Thus, the number of nodes is upper bounded by $2^{\fb}$, where $\fb$ is the bits of data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lingfei Jin , Yuan Luo , Chaoping Xing

Lifted codes are a class of evaluation codes attracting more attention due to good locality and intermediate availability. In this work we introduce and study quadratic-curve-lifted Reed-Solomon (QC-LRS) codes, where the codeword symbols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Hedongliang Liu , Lukas Holzbaur , Nikita Polyanskii , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

This paper presents an explicit construction for an $((n,k,d=n-1), (\alpha,\beta))$ regenerating code over a field $\mathbb{F}_Q$ operating at the Minimum Storage Regeneration (MSR) point. The MSR code can be constructed to have rate $k/n$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Birenjith Sasidharan , Myna Vajha , P. Vijay Kumar

Learning from data in the presence of outliers is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this work, we study robust statistics in the presence of overwhelming outliers for the fundamental problem of subspace recovery. Given a dataset where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Prasad Raghavendra , Morris Yau

List decoding of codes can be seen as the generalization of unique decoding of codes While list decoding over finite fields has been extensively studied, extending these results to more general algebraic structures such as Galois rings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

We present a new decoding algorithm based on error locating pairs and correcting an amount of errors exceeding half the minimum distance. When applied to Reed--Solomon or algebraic geometry codes, the algorithm is a reformulation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Alain Couvreur , Isabella Panaccione

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

Motivated by recent developments in coding theory, particular in list-decoding, we introduce a new error model which we call semi-adversarial errors. This error model bridges between fully random errors and fully adversarial errors by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

A scheme for concatenating the recently invented polar codes with non-binary MDS codes, as Reed-Solomon codes, is considered. By concatenating binary polar codes with interleaved Reed-Solomon codes, we prove that the proposed concatenation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

Erasure list decoding was introduced to correct a larger number of erasures with output of a list of possible candidates. In the present paper, we consider both random linear codes and algebraic geometry codes for list decoding erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Yang Ding , Lingfei Jin , Chaoping Xing

A new class of exact-repair regenerating codes is constructed by combining two layers of erasure correction codes together with combinatorial block designs, e.g., Steiner systems, balanced incomplete block designs and t-designs. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Chao Tian , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinay A. Vaishampayan

We generalize the problem of recovering a lost/erased symbol in a Reed-Solomon code to the scenario in which some side information about the lost symbol is known. The side information is represented as a set $S$ of linearly independent…

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a family of repair-efficient storage codes that provide exact and uncoded node repair at the minimum bandwidth regenerating point. The advantageous repair properties are achieved by a tailor-made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Hui Li , Kenneth W. Shum , Shuo-Yen Robert Li

Classical erasure codes, e.g. Reed-Solomon codes, have been acknowledged as an efficient alternative to plain replication to reduce the storage overhead in reliable distributed storage systems. Yet, such codes experience high overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erwan Le Merrer , Gilles Straub , Alexandre van Kempen

Vector symbolic architectures (VSAs) are a family of information representation techniques which enable composition, i.e., creating complex information structures from atomic vectors via binding and superposition, and have recently found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zirui Deng , Netanel Raviv

We analyze the Guruswami--Sudan list decoding algorithm for Reed--Solomon codes over the complex field for sparse recovery in Compressed Sensing. We propose methods of stabilizing both the interpolation and the root-finding steps against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mostafa H. Mohamed , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

MDS codes play a central role in practice due to their broad applications. To date, most known MDS codes are generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, leaving codes that are not equivalent to GRS codes comparatively less understood. Studying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Runtian Zhu , Lingfei Jin

In this paper we present a minimal list decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Minimal list decoding for a code $C$ refers to list decoding with radius $L$, where $L$ is the minimum of the distances between the received word…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mortuza Ali , Margreta Kuijper