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Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in the multishot network coding and the distributed storage. Linearized Reed-Solomon codes, sum-rank BCH codes and their Welch-Berlekamp type decoding algorithms were proposed and studied. They…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hao Chen , Yanfeng Qi , Zhiqiang Cheng

In this work, we show new and improved error-correcting properties of folded Reed-Solomon codes and multiplicity codes. Both of these families of codes are based on polynomials over finite fields, and both have been the sources of recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Swastik Kopparty , Noga Ron-Zewi , Shubhangi Saraf , Mary Wootters

In this paper, we prove that explicit FRS codes and multiplicity codes achieve relaxed generalized Singleton bounds for list size $L\ge1.$ Specifically, we show the following: (1) FRS code of length $n$ and rate $R$ over the alphabet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yeyuan Chen , Zihan Zhang

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

We provide an algebraic description for sum-rank metric codes, as quotient space of a skew polynomial ring. This approach generalizes at the same time the skew group algebra setting for rank-metric codes and the polynomial setting for codes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Alessandro Neri

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

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes are a natural affine-invariant family of error-correcting codes which generalize Reed-Muller codes. They were known to have efficient local-testing and local-decoding algorithms (comparable to the known algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Alan Guo , Swastik Kopparty

A large class of MDS linear codes is constructed. These codes are endowed with an efficient decoding algorithm. Both the definition of the codes and the design of their decoding algorithm only require from Linear Algebra methods, making…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 José Gómez-Torrecillas , Gabriel Navarro , José Patricio Sánchez-Hernández

Maximum rank distance codes denoted MRD-codes are the equivalent in rank metric of MDS-codes. Given any integer $q$ power of a prime and any integer $n$ there is a family of MRD-codes of length $n$ over $\FF{q^n}$ having polynomial-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 E. M. Gabidulin , P. Loidreau

In this article, we present a new construction of evaluation codes in the Hamming metric, which we call twisted Reed-Solomon codes. Whereas Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are MDS codes, this need not be the case for twisted RS codes. Nonetheless,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peter Beelen , Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde

We show that the known list-decoding algorithms for univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes can be made to run in $\tilde{O}(n)$ time. Univariate multiplicity codes and FRS codes are natural variants of Reed-Solomon codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Rohan Goyal , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Ashutosh Shankar

Guo, Kopparty and Sudan have initiated the study of error-correcting codes derived by lifting of affine-invariant codes. Lifted Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are defined as the evaluation of polynomials in a vector space over a field by requiring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Lukas Holzbaur , Rina Polyanskaya , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev

We present a construction of subspace codes along with an efficient algorithm for list decoding from both insertions and deletions, handling an information-theoretically maximum fraction of these with polynomially small rate. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Venkatesan Guruswami , Srivatsan Narayanan , Carol Wang

Sum-rank metric codes are a natural extension of both linear block codes and rank-metric codes. They have several applications in information theory, including multishot network coding and distributed storage systems. The aim of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Elisa Gorla , Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Flavio Salizzoni

Rank-metric codes were studied by E. Gabidulin in 1985 after a brief introduction by Delsarte in 1978 as an equivalent of Reed-Solomon codes, but based on linearized polynomials. They have found applications in many areas, including linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ousmane Ndiaye , Peter Arnaud Kidoudou , Hervé Tale Kalachi

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

Compared with classical block codes, efficient list decoding of rank-metric codes seems more difficult. Although the list decodability of random rank-metric codes and limits to list decodability have been completely determined, little work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan

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

Codes in the sum-rank metric have received many attentions in recent years, since they have wide applications in the multishot network coding, the space-time coding and the distributed storage. Fundamental bounds, some explicit or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hao Chen

Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) and Gabidulin codes have been proposed for various code-based cryptosystems, though most such schemes without elaborate disguising techniques have been successfully attacked. Both code classes are prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Felicitas Hörmann , Anna-Lena Horlemann