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Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Philipp Mohr , Gerhard Bauch

Performance evaluation of particular channel coding has been a significant topic in coding theory, often involving the use of bounding techniques. This paper focuses on the new family of capacity-achieving codes, Spinal codes, to provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Xiaomeng Chen , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Sumei Sun

Minimum weight distribution (MWD) is an important metric to calculate the first term of union bound called minimum weight union bound (MWUB). In this paper, we first prove the maximum likelihood (ML) performance approaches MWUB as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Jinnan Piao , Dong Li , Jindi Liu , Xueting Yu , Zhibo Li , Ming Yang , Peng Zeng

We present a novel algorithm that solves the turbo code LP decoding problem in a fininte number of steps by Euclidean distance minimizations, which in turn rely on repeated shortest path computations in the trellis graph representing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Michael Helmling , Stefan Ruzika

Inspired by recent advances in deep learning, we propose a novel iterative BP-CNN architecture for channel decoding under correlated noise. This architecture concatenates a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) with a standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Fei Liang , Cong Shen , Feng Wu

New algorithms for efficient decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC-augmented), transmitted over either a binary erasure channel (BEC) or an additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC), are presented. We start by presenting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yonatan Urman , Guy Mogilevsky , David Burshtein

Motivated by applications of biometric identification and content identification systems, we consider the problem of random coding for channels, where each codeword undergoes lossy compression (vector quantization), and where the decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Neri Merhav

An efficient, low-complexity, soft-output detector for general lattices is presented, based on their Tanner graph (TG) representations. Closest-point searches in lattices can be performed as non-binary belief propagation on associated TGs;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-29 Dumitru Mihai Ionescu , Haidong Zhu

This paper is concerned with the application of nonbinary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes to binary input inter-symbol interference (ISI) channels. Two low-complexity joint detection/decoding algorithms are proposed. One is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Shancheng Zhao , Zhifei Lu , Xiao Ma , Baoming Bai

The performance of maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding on the binary erasure channel for finite-length low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from two random ensembles is studied. The theoretical average spectrum of the Gallager ensemble is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Irina E. Bocharova , Boris D. Kudryashov , Vitaly Skachek , Eirik Rosnes , Øyvind Ytrehus

The work identifies the first general, explicit, and non-random MIMO encoder-decoder structures that guarantee optimality with respect to the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT), without employing a computationally expensive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Joakim Jalden , Petros Elia

We describe two implementations of the optimal error correction algorithm known as the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for the 2D surface code with a noiseless syndrome extraction. First, we show how to implement MLD exactly in time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Sergey Bravyi , Martin Suchara , Alexander Vargo

We propose an approximation of maximum-likelihood detection in ISI channels based on linear programming or message passing. We convert the detection problem into a binary decoding problem, which can be easily combined with LDPC decoding. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammad H. Taghavi , Paul H. Siegel

This paper proposes a bitwise over-parameterized neural network (ONN) decoder for polar-coded transmission and develops a tractable theoretical performance analysis framework. By modeling each synthesized message channel as an individual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Hongzhi Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You

Minimum Bayes risk (MBR) decoding is a decision rule of text generation tasks that outperforms conventional maximum a posterior (MAP) decoding using beam search by selecting high-quality outputs based on a utility function rather than those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

In this paper, we propose a physical-layer rateless code for wireless channels. A novel rateless encoding scheme is developed to overcome the high error floor problem caused by the low-density generator matrix (LDGM)-like encoding scheme in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Shuang Tian , Yonghui Li , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, we propose an efficient decoding algorithm for short low-density parity check (LDPC) codes by carefully combining the belief propagation (BP) decoding and order statistic decoding (OSD) algorithms. Specifically, a modified BP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Weiyang Zhang , Chentao Yue , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, we revisit the design of Raptor codes for binary input additive white Gaussian noise (BIAWGN) channels, where we are interested in very low signal to noise ratios (SNRs). A linear programming degree distribution optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Sarah J. Johnson

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) and its variants, known for their near-maximum likelihood performance, have been introduced in recent years. One such variant, Segmented GRAND, reduces decoding complexity by generating only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lukas Rapp , Jiewei Feng , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding is a powerful decoding strategy widely used for text generation tasks, but its quadratic computational complexity limits its practical application. This paper presents a novel approach for approximating MBR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Firas Trabelsi , David Vilar , Mara Finkelstein , Markus Freitag