We speed up existing decoding algorithms for three code classes in different
metrics: interleaved Gabidulin codes in the rank metric, lifted interleaved
Gabidulin codes in the subspace metric, and linearized Reed-Solomon codes in
the sum-rank metric. The speed-ups are achieved by reducing the core of the
underlying computational problems of the decoders to one common tool: computing
left and right approximant bases of matrices over skew polynomial rings. To
accomplish this, we describe a skew-analogue of the existing PM-Basis algorithm
for matrices over usual polynomials. This captures the bulk of the work in
multiplication of skew polynomials, and the complexity benefit comes from
existing algorithms performing this faster than in classical quadratic
complexity. The new faster algorithms for the various decoding-related
computational problems are interesting in their own and have further
applications, in particular parts of decoders of several other codes and
foundational problems related to the remainder-evaluation of skew polynomials