Randomly punctured Reed–Solomon codes achieve list-decoding capacity over linear-sized fields

O Alrabiah, V Guruswami, R Li - Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Generic reed-solomon codes achieve list-decoding capacity

J Brakensiek, S Gopi, V Makam - Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In a recent paper, Brakensiek, Gopi and Makam introduced higher order MDS codes as a
generalization of MDS codes. An order-ℓ MDS code, denoted by MDS (ℓ), has the property …

Randomly punctured reed-solomon codes achieve the list decoding capacity over polynomial-size alphabets

Z Guo, Z Zhang - 2023 IEEE 64th Annual Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper shows that, with high probability, randomly punctured Reed-Solomon codes over
fields of polynomial size achieve the list decoding capacity. More specifically, we prove that …

List decoding of tanner and expander amplified codes from distance certificates

FG Jeronimo, S Srivastava… - 2023 IEEE 64th Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Punctured low-bias codes behave like random linear codes

V Guruswami, J Mosheiff - 2022 IEEE 63rd Annual Symposium …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Random linear codes are a workhorse in coding theory, and are used to show the existence
of codes with the best known or even near-optimal trade-offs in many noise models …

Optimization by decoded quantum interferometry

SP Jordan, N Shutty, M Wootters, A Zalcman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm for reducing
classical optimization problems to classical decoding problems by exploiting structure in the …

Unique Decoding of Explicit -balanced Codes Near the Gilbert-Varshamov Bound

FG Jeronimo, D Quintana, S Srivastava… - 2020 IEEE 61st …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Gilbert-Varshamov bound (non-constructively) establishes the existence of binary codes
of distance 1/2-ε and rate Ω(ε^2) (where an upper bound of O(ε^2\log(1/ε)) is known). Ta …

Efficient list-decoding with constant alphabet and list sizes

Z Guo, N Ron-Zewi - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present an explicit and efficient algebraic construction of capacity-achieving list
decodable codes with both constant alphabet and constant list sizes. More specifically, for …

R\'enyi divergence guarantees for hashing with linear codes

M Pathegama, A Barg - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04406, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of distilling uniform random bits from an unknown source with a
given $ p $-entropy using linear hashing. As our main result, we estimate the expected $ p …

Pseudorandom linear codes are list decodable to capacity

AL Putterman, E Pyne - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.17554, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce a novel family of expander-based error correcting codes. These codes can be
sampled with randomness linear in the block-length, and achieve list-decoding capacity …