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11 papers

cs.IT2026

Unique Decoding of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes for Semi-Adversarial Errors

Joshua Brakensiek, Yeyuan Chen, Manik Dhar +1

Motivated by recent developments in coding theory, particular in list-decoding, we introduce a new error model which we call semi-adversarial errors. This error model bridges betwe…

math.CO2026

Rigidity matroids and linear algebraic matroids with applications to matrix completion and tensor codes

Joshua Brakensiek, Manik Dhar, Jiyang Gao +2

We establish a connection between problems studied in rigidity theory and matroids arising from linear algebraic constructions like tensor products and symmetric products. A specia…

econ.TH2026

Existence of Fair Resolute Voting Rules

Manik Dhar, Kunal Mittal, Clayton Thomas

Among two-candidate elections that treat the candidates symmetrically and never result in a tie, which voting rules are fair? A natural requirement is that each voter exerts an equ…

cs.IT2026

Improved Constructions and Lower Bounds for Maximally Recoverable Grid Codes

Joshua Brakensiek, Manik Dhar, Sivakanth Gopi

In this paper, we continue the study of Maximally Recoverable (MR) Grid Codes initiated by Gopalan et al. [SODA 2017]. More precisely, we study codes over an grid topo…

cs.IT2025

From Random to Explicit via Subspace Designs With Applications to Local Properties and Matroids

Joshua Brakensiek, Yeyuan Chen, Manik Dhar +1

In coding theory, a common question is to understand the threshold rates of various local properties of codes, such as their list decodability and list recoverability. A recent wor…

cs.IT2025

Combinatorial Bounds for List Recovery via Discrete Brascamp--Lieb Inequalities

Joshua Brakensiek, Yeyuan Chen, Manik Dhar +1

In coding theory, the problem of list recovery asks one to find all codewords of a given code which such that at least fraction of the symbols of lie in some pre…