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his study presents a novel technique to estimate the computational complexity of sequential decoding using the Berry-Esseen theorem. Unlike the theoretical bounds determined by the conventional central limit theorem argument, which often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-20 Po-Ning Chen , Yunghsiang S. Han , Carlos R. P. Hartmann , Hong-Bin Wu

We present the first two sub-quadratic complexity decoding algorithms for one-point Hermitian codes. The first is based on a fast realisation of the Guruswami-Sudan algorithm by using state-of-the-art algorithms from computer algebra for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Johan S. R. Nielsen , Peter Beelen

The problem of error control in random linear network coding is addressed from a matrix perspective that is closely related to the subspace perspective of K\"otter and Kschischang. A large class of constant-dimension subspace codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang , Ralf Kötter

Recently, codes in the sum-rank metric attracted attention due to several applications in e.g. multishot network coding, distributed storage and quantum-resistant cryptography. The sum-rank analogs of Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

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

An iterative algorithm is presented for soft-input-soft-output (SISO) decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The proposed iterative algorithm uses the sum product algorithm (SPA) in conjunction with a binary parity check matrix of the RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

In this paper, it is shown that the syndromes of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and alternant codes can be characterized in terms of inverse fast Fourier transform, regardless of code definitions. Then a fast decoding algorithm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Nianqi Tang , Yunghsiang S. Han , Danyang Pei , Chao Chen

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for scalable quantum computing, yet repeated syndrome-measurement cycles dominate its spacetime and hardware cost. Although stabilizers commute and admit many valid execution orders, different…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yuhao Liu , Shuohao Ping , Junyu Zhou , Ethan Decker , Justin Kalloor , Mathias Weiden , Kean Chen , Yunong Shi , Ali Javadi-Abhari , Costin Iancu , Gushu Li

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

In this paper, we present a new basis of polynomial over finite fields of characteristic two and then apply it to the encoding/decoding of Reed-Solomon erasure codes. The proposed polynomial basis allows that $h$-point polynomial evaluation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung , Yunghsiang S. Han

This paper is concerned with list decoding of $2$-interleaved binary alternant codes. The principle of the proposed algorithm is based on a combination of a list decoding algorithm for (interleaved) Reed-Solomon codes and an algorithm for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Chih-Chiang Huang , Hedongliang Liu , Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes were introduced to extend the algebraic capabilities of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. This extension holds the potential for constructing new non-GRS maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Guanghui Zhang , Liren Lin , Bocong Chen

Fast, reliable logical operations are essential for realizing useful quantum computers. By redundantly encoding logical qubits into many physical qubits and using syndrome measurements to detect and correct errors, one can achieve low…

List-decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes beyond the so called Johnson radius has been one of the main open questions since the work of Guruswami and Sudan. It is now known by the work of Rudra and Wootters, using techniques from high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

This paper develops an algorithmic approach for obtaining approximate, numerical estimates of the sizes of subcodes of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, all of the codewords in which satisfy a given constraint. Our algorithm is based on a statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Shreyas Jain , Navin Kashyap

Short-length Reed--Muller codes under majority-logic decoding are of particular importance for efficient hardware implementations in real-time and embedded systems. This paper significantly improves Chen's two-step majority-logic decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Peter Hauck , Michael Huber , Juliane Bertram , Dennis Brauchle , Sebastian Ziesche

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

Reed-Muller (RM) codes are conjectured to achieve the capacity of any binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channel, and are observed to have a comparable performance to that of random codes in terms of scaling laws. On the negative side,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Xiyang Liu , Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Hessam Mahdavifar , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage, but naively repairing a single failure in an $(n,k)$ MDS code requires downloading the full contents of $k$ surviving nodes. Minimum storage regenerating (MSR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu

Reed-Muller (RM) and polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving channel coding schemes with the same factor graph representation. Low-complexity decoding algorithms fall short in providing a good error-correction performance for RM and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross