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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

List-decoding and list-recovery are important generalizations of unique decoding that received considerable attention over the years. However, the optimal trade-off among list-decoding (resp. list-recovery) radius, list size, and the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

We study the Singleton-type bound that provides an upper limit on the minimum distance of locally repairable codes. We present an improved bound by carefully analyzing the combinatorial structure of the repair sets. Thus, we show the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Han Cai , Cuiling Fan , Ying Miao , Moshe Schwartz , Xiaohu Tang

A locally repairable code is called Singleton-optimal if it achieves the Singleton-type bound. Such codes are of great theoretic interest in the study of locally repairable codes. In the recent years there has been a great amount of work on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shu Liu , Tingyi Wu , Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan

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 asymptotic lower and upper bounds for the sizes of constant dimension codes with respect to the subspace or injection distance, which is used in random linear network coding. In this context we review known upper bounds and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Daniel Heinlein , Sascha Kurz

We investigate additive codes, defined as $\mathbb{F}_q$-linear subspaces $C \subseteq \mathbb{F}_{q^h}^n$ of length $n$ and dimension $r$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$. An additive code is said to be of type $[n, r/h, d]_q^h$, where $d$ denotes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Daniele Bartoli , Alessandro Giannoni , Giuseppe Marino , Yue Zhou

MDS codes have diverse practical applications in communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and optimal error-correcting capability. In this paper, we focus on a class of linear codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yansheng Wu , Ziling Heng , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

Maximum distance separable (MDS) are constructed to required specifications. The codes are explicitly given over finite fields with efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Series of such codes over finite fields with ratio of distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ted Hurley , Donny Hurley , Barry Hurley

This paper deals with the problem of increasing the minimum distance of a linear code by adding one or more columns to the generator matrix. Several methods to compute extensions of linear codes are presented. Many codes improving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Markus Grassl

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 construct maximally recoverable codes (corresponding to partial MDS codes) which are based on linearized Reed-Solomon codes. The new codes have a smaller field size requirement compared with known constructions. For certain asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Han Cai , Ying Miao , Moshe Schwartz , Xiaohu Tang

Additive codes may have better parameters than linear codes. However, still very few cases are known and the explicit construction of such codes is a challenging problem. Here we show that a Griesmer type bound for the length of additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Sascha Kurz

A Maximum Distance Separable code over an alphabet $F$ is defined via an encoding function $C:F^k \rightarrow F^n$ that allows to retrieve a message $m \in F^k$ from the codeword $C(m)$ even after erasing any $n-k$ of its symbols. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Mira Gonen , Ishay Haviv , Michael Langberg , Alex Sprintson

Symbol-pair codes are proposed to guard against pair-errors in symbol-pair read channels. The minimum symbol-pair distance plays a vital role in determining the error-correcting capability and the constructions of symbol-pair codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junru Ma , Jinquan Luo

Bounds on linear codes play a central role in coding theory, as they capture the fundamental trade-off between error-correction capability (minimum distance) and information rate (dimension relative to length). Classical results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liren Lin , Guanghui Zhang , Bocong Chen , Hongwei Liu

We construct new linear codes with high minimum distance d. In at least 12 cases these codes improve the minimum distance of the previously known best linear codes for fixed parameters n,k. Among these new codes there is an optimal ternary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Axel Kohnert

An expander code is a binary linear code whose parity-check matrix is the bi-adjacency matrix of a bipartite expander graph. We provide a new formula for the minimum distance of such codes. We also provide a new proof of the result that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Sudipta Mallik

Near MDS (NMDS) codes are closely related to interesting objects in finite geometry and have nice applications in combinatorics and cryptography. But there are many unsolved problems about construction of NMDS codes. In this paper, by using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Shanqi Pang , Chaomeng Zhang , Mengqian Chen , Miaomiao Zhang

A linear code with parameters of the form $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is referred to as an MDS (maximum distance separable) code. A linear code with parameters of the form $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost MDS (i.e., almost maximum distance separable)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qiuyan Wang , Ziling Heng