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Main Authors: Mishra, Prachi, Jaggi, Sidharth, Kashyap, Navin, Langberg, Michael
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09113
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Table of Contents:
  • We investigate weakly constrained codes, in which specific patterns occur with prescribed frequencies rather than being strictly forbidden as in conventional constrained coding. We propose a capacity-achieving construction of a weakly constrained codebook based on Eulerian cycles. We then obtain, via expurgation, weakly constrained codes with linear minimum distance and positive rate, and analyze the rates achievable. Finally, we propose a practical concatenated code construction that supports polynomial-time encoding and decoding.