Almost-Reed-Muller Codes Achieve Constant Rates for Random Errors

Emmanuel Abbe, Jan Hazla, Ido Nachum

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Abstract

This paper considers ' \delta -Almost Reed-Muller codes', i.e., linear codes spanned by evaluations of all but a \delta fraction of monomials of degree at most d. It is shown that for any \delta > 0 and any \varepsilon >0 , there exists a family of \delta -Almost Reed-Muller codes of constant rate that correct 1/2-\varepsilon fraction of random errors with high probability. For exact Reed-Muller codes, the analogous result is not known and represents a weaker version of the longstanding conjecture that Reed-Muller codes achieve capacity for random errors (Abbe-Shpilka-Wigderson STOC '15). Our proof is based on the recent polarization result for Reed-Muller codes, combined with a combinatorial approach to establishing inequalities between the Reed-Muller code entropies.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)8034-8050
Number of pages17
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume67
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • polarization
  • Reed-Muller codes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Library and Information Sciences

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