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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

The list decoding problem for a code asks for the maximal radius up to which any ball of that radius contains only a constant number of codewords. The list decoding radius is not well understood even for well studied codes, like…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Abhishek Bhowmick , Shachar Lovett

In this paper we investigate the structure of quasi-BCH codes. In the first part of this paper we show that quasi-BCH codes can be derived from Reed-Solomon codes over square matrices extending the known relation about classical BCH and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Morgan Barbier , Clément Pernet , Guillaume Quintin

Practically good error-correcting codes should have good parameters and efficient decoding algorithms. Some algebraically defined good codes such as cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes, and Reed-Muller codes have nice decoding algorithms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Lucky Galvez , Jon-Lark Kim

The Welch--Berlekamp approach for Reed--Solomon (RS) codes forms a bridge between classical syndrome--based decoding algorithms and interpolation--based list--decoding procedures for list size l=1. It returns the univariate error--locator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Alexander Zeh , Christian Senger

The interpolation step in the Guruswami-Sudan algorithm is a bivariate interpolation problem with multiplicities commonly solved in the literature using either structured linear algebra or basis reduction of polynomial lattices. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Muhammad F. I. Chowdhury , Claude-Pierre Jeannerod , Vincent Neiger , Eric Schost , Gilles Villard

A new Chase-type soft-decision decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes is proposed, referred to as tree-based Chase-type algorithm}. The proposed tree-based Chase-type algorithm takes the set of all vectors as the set of testing patterns,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Siyun Tang , Suihua Cai , Xiao Ma Member

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

We propose a new algorithm for decoding Reed-Solomon codes (up to half the minimum distance) and for computing inverses in $F[x]/m(x)$. The proposed algorithm is similar in spirit and structure to the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, but it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Jiun-Hung Yu , Hans-Andrea Loeliger

We decode Reed-Solomon codes using soft information provided at the receiver. The Extended Euclidean Algorithm (EEA) is considered as an initial step to obtain an intermediate result. The final decoding result is obtained by interpolating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Mostafa Hosni Mohamed , Johan S. R. Nielsen , Martin Bossert

Decoding a Reed-Solomon code can be modeled by a bilinear system which can be solved by Gr\"obner basis techniques. We will show that in this particular case, these techniques are much more efficient than for generic bilinear systems with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Magali Bardet , Rocco Mora , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We propose a new partial decoding algorithm for $m$-interleaved Reed--Solomon (IRS) codes that can decode, with high probability, a random error of relative weight $1-R^{\frac{m}{m+1}}$ at all code rates $R$, in time polynomial in the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen

In this paper show that the list and bounded-distance decoding problems of certain bounds for the Reed-Solomon code are at least as hard as the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Qi Cheng , Daqing Wan

A recent work of Goyal, Harsha, Kumar and Shankar gave nearly linear time algorithms for the list decoding of Folded Reed-Solomon codes (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes up to list decoding capacity in their natural setting of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Rohan Goyal , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Ashutosh Shankar

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are variants of Reed-Solomon codes, known for their optimal list decoding radius. We show explicit FRS codes with rate $R$ that can be list decoded up to radius $1-R-\epsilon$ with lists of size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shashank Srivastava

This paper presents a method to merge Generalized Minimum Distance decoding of Reed-Solomon codes with the extended Euclidean algorithm. By merge, we mean that the steps taken to perform the Generalized Minimum Distance decoding are similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Sabine Kampf , Martin Bossert

In this work it is shown that locally repairable codes (LRCs) can be list-decoded efficiently beyond the Johnson radius for a large range of parameters by utilizing the local error-correction capabilities. The corresponding decoding radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The recently introduced polar codes constitute a breakthrough in coding theory due to their capacityachieving property. This goes hand in hand with a quasilinear construction, encoding, and successive cancellation list decoding procedures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kirill Ivanov , Rüdiger Urbanke

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

Establishing the complexity of {\em Bounded Distance Decoding} for Reed-Solomon codes is a fundamental open problem in coding theory, explicitly asked by Guruswami and Vardy (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2005). The problem is motivated by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Venkata Gandikota , Badih Ghazi , Elena Grigorescu