Title
Weight Distribution and List-Decoding Size of Reed–Muller Codes
Abstract
The weight distribution and list-decoding size of Reed–Muller codes are studied in this work. Given a weight parameter, we are interested in bounding the number of Reed–Muller codewords with weight up to the given parameter; and given a received word and a distance parameter, we are interested in bounding the size of the list of Reed–Muller codewords that are within that distance from the received word. Obtaining tight bounds for the weight distribution of Reed–Muller codes has been a long standing open problem in coding theory, dating back to 1976. In this work, we make a new connection between computer science techniques used to study low-degree polynomials and these coding theory questions. This allows us to resolve the weight distribution and list-decoding size of Reed–Muller codes for all distances. Previous results could only handle bounded distances: Azumi, Kasami, and Tokura gave bounds on the weight distribution which hold up to 2.5 times the minimal distance of the code; and Gopalan, Klivans, and Zuckerman gave bounds on the list-decoding size which hold up to the Johnson bound.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TIT.2012.2184841
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
weight distribution,reed-muller codes,list-decoding,and low-degree polynomials,list decoding,reed muller codes,reed muller code,coding theory,yttrium,learning theory,polynomials,upper bound,approximation algorithms,decoding,one way function
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0018-9448
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tali Kaufman149938.33
Shachar Lovett252055.02
ely porat3100779.16