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Roni Con

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arXiv2022

Explicit and Efficient Constructions of linear Codes Against Adversarial Insertions and Deletions

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (insdel) errors, a topic that has recently gained a lot of attention. We construct linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$, for $q=\text{poly}(1/\varepsilon)$, that can efficiently decode from a $δ$ fraction of insdel errors and have rate $(1-4δ)/8-\varepsilon$. We also show that by allowing codes over $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$ that are linear over $\mathbb{F}_q$, we can improve the rate to $(1-δ)/4-\varepsilon$ while not sacrificing efficiency. Using this latter result, we construct fully linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_2$ that can efficiently correct up to $δ< 1/54$ fraction of deletions and have rate $R = (1-54\cdot δ)/1216$. Cheng, Guruswami, Haeupler, and Li [CGHL21] constructed codes with (extremely small) rates bounded away from zero that can correct up to a $δ< 1/400$ fraction of insdel errors. They also posed the problem of constructing linear codes that get close to the half-Singleton bound (proved in [CGHL21]) over small fields. Thus, our results significantly improve their construction and get much closer to the bound.

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arXiv2019

Explicit and Efficient Constructions of Coding Schemes for the Binary Deletion Channel and the Poisson Repeat Channel

This work gives an explicit construction of a family of error correcting codes for the binary deletion channel and for the Poisson repeat channel. In the binary deletion channel with parameter $p$ (BDC$_p$) every bit is deleted independently with probability $p$. A lower bound of $(1-p)/9$ is known on the capacity of the BDC$_p$ \cite{mitzenmacher2006simple}, yet no explicit construction is known to achieve this rate. We give an explicit family of codes of rate $(1-p)/16$, for every $p$. This improves upon the work of Guruswami and Li \cite{guruswami2017efficiently} that gave a construction of rate $(1-p)/120$. The codes in our family have polynomial time encoding and decoding algorithms. Another channel considered in this work is the Poisson repeat channel with parameter $λ$ (PRC$_λ$) in which every bit is replaced with a discrete Poisson number of copies of that bit, where the number of copies has mean $λ$. We show that our construction works for this channel as well. As far as we know, this is the first explicit construction of an error correcting code for PRC$_λ$.

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