Random Reed-Solomon Codes and Random Linear Codes are Locally Equivalent
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| author | Levi, Matan Mosheiff, Jonathan Shagrithaya, Nikhil |
| author_facet | Levi, Matan Mosheiff, Jonathan Shagrithaya, Nikhil |
| contents | We establish an equivalence between two important random ensembles of linear codes: random linear codes (RLCs) and random Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Specifically, we show that these models exhibit identical behavior with respect to key combinatorial properties -- such as list-decodability and list-recoverability -- when the alphabet size is sufficiently large.
We introduce monotone-decreasing local coordinate-wise linear (LCL) properties, a new class of properties tailored for the large alphabet regime. This class encompasses list-decodability, list-recoverability, and their average-weight variants. We develop a framework for analyzing these properties and prove a threshold theorem for RLCs: for any LCL property $\mathcal{P}$, there exists a threshold rate $R_\mathcal{P}$ such that RLCs are likely to satisfy $\mathcal{P}$ when $R < R_\mathcal{P}$ and unlikely to do so when $R > R_\mathcal{P}$. We extend this threshold theorem to random RS codes and show that they share the same threshold $ R_\mathcal{P} $, thereby establishing the equivalence between the two ensembles and enabling a unified analysis of list-recoverability and related properties.
Applying our framework, we compute the threshold rate for list-decodability, proving that both random RS codes and RLCs achieve the generalized Singleton bound. This recovers a recent result of Alrabiah, Guruswami, and Li (2023) via elementary methods. Additionally, we prove an upper bound on the list-recoverability threshold and conjecture that this bound is tight. Our approach suggests a plausible pathway for proving this conjecture and thereby pinpointing the list-recoverability parameters of both models. Indeed, following the release of a prior version of this paper, Li and Shagrithaya (2025) used our equivalence theorem to show that random RS codes are near-optimally list-recoverable. |
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| spellingShingle | Random Reed-Solomon Codes and Random Linear Codes are Locally Equivalent Levi, Matan Mosheiff, Jonathan Shagrithaya, Nikhil Information Theory We establish an equivalence between two important random ensembles of linear codes: random linear codes (RLCs) and random Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Specifically, we show that these models exhibit identical behavior with respect to key combinatorial properties -- such as list-decodability and list-recoverability -- when the alphabet size is sufficiently large. We introduce monotone-decreasing local coordinate-wise linear (LCL) properties, a new class of properties tailored for the large alphabet regime. This class encompasses list-decodability, list-recoverability, and their average-weight variants. We develop a framework for analyzing these properties and prove a threshold theorem for RLCs: for any LCL property $\mathcal{P}$, there exists a threshold rate $R_\mathcal{P}$ such that RLCs are likely to satisfy $\mathcal{P}$ when $R < R_\mathcal{P}$ and unlikely to do so when $R > R_\mathcal{P}$. We extend this threshold theorem to random RS codes and show that they share the same threshold $ R_\mathcal{P} $, thereby establishing the equivalence between the two ensembles and enabling a unified analysis of list-recoverability and related properties. Applying our framework, we compute the threshold rate for list-decodability, proving that both random RS codes and RLCs achieve the generalized Singleton bound. This recovers a recent result of Alrabiah, Guruswami, and Li (2023) via elementary methods. Additionally, we prove an upper bound on the list-recoverability threshold and conjecture that this bound is tight. Our approach suggests a plausible pathway for proving this conjecture and thereby pinpointing the list-recoverability parameters of both models. Indeed, following the release of a prior version of this paper, Li and Shagrithaya (2025) used our equivalence theorem to show that random RS codes are near-optimally list-recoverable. |
| title | Random Reed-Solomon Codes and Random Linear Codes are Locally Equivalent |
| topic | Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02238 |