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Fully Parallelized BP Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes Can Outperform BP-OSD

Quantum Physics 2026-02-11 v3 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

This work presents a hardware-efficient and fully parallelizable decoder for quantum LDPC codes that leverages belief propagation (BP) with a speculative post-processing strategy inspired by classical Chase decoding algorithm. By monitoring bit-level oscillation patterns during BP, our method identifies unreliable bits and generates multiple candidate vectors to selectively flip syndromes. Each modified syndrome is then decoded independently using short-depth BP, a process we refer to as BP-SF (syndrome flip). This design eliminates the need for costly Gaussian elimination used in the current BP-OSD approaches. Our implementation achieves logical error rates comparable to or better than BP-OSD while offering significantly lower latency due to its high degree of parallelism for a variety of bivariate bicycle codes. Evaluation on the [[144,12,12]] bivariate bicycle code shows that the proposed decoder reduces average latency to approximately 70%70\% of BP-OSD. When post-processing is parallelized the average latency is reduced by 55%55\% compared to the single process implementation, with the maximum latency reaching as low as 18%18\%. These advantages make it particularly well-suited for real-time and resource-constrained quantum error correction systems.

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@article{arxiv.2507.00254,
  title  = {Fully Parallelized BP Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes Can Outperform BP-OSD},
  author = {Ming Wang and Ang Li and Frank Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00254},
  year   = {2026}
}
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