Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2012-04-18
Computer Science
Information Theory
Conference version appears at STOC 2012
Scientific paper
We give a new construction of algebraic codes which are efficiently list decodable from a fraction $1-R-\eps$ of adversarial errors where $R$ is the rate of the code, for any desired positive constant $\eps$. The worst-case list size output by the algorithm is $O(1/\eps)$, matching the existential bound for random codes up to constant factors. Further, the alphabet size of the codes is a constant depending only on $\eps$ - it can be made $\exp(\tilde{O}(1/\eps^2))$ which is not much worse than the lower bound of $\exp(\Omega(1/\eps))$. The parameters we achieve are thus quite close to the existential bounds in all three aspects - error-correction radius, alphabet size, and list-size - simultaneously. Our code construction is Monte Carlo and has the claimed list decoding property with high probability. Once the code is (efficiently) sampled, the encoding/decoding algorithms are deterministic with a running time $O_\eps(N^c)$ for an absolute constant $c$, where $N$ is the code's block length. Our construction is based on a linear-algebraic approach to list decoding folded codes from towers of function fields, and combining it with a special form of subspace-evasive sets. Instantiating this with the explicit "asymptotically good" Garcia-Stichtenoth tower of function fields yields the above parameters. To illustrate the method in a simpler setting, we also present a construction based on Hermitian function fields, which offers similar guarantees with a list and alphabet size polylogarithmic in the block length $N$. Along the way, we shed light on how to use automorphisms of certain function fields to enable list decoding of the folded version of the associated algebraic-geometric codes.
Guruswami Venkatesan
Xing Chaoping
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