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The performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) is known to be limited by the presence of certain sub-graphs that exist in the Tanner graph representation of the code, for example trapping sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Homayoon Hatami , David G. M. Mitchell , Daniel J. Costello , Thomas E. Fuja

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 use reduced precision checking (RPC) to detect errors in floating point arithmetic. Prior work explored RPC for addition and multiplication. In this work, we extend RPC to a complete floating point unit (FPU), including…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Yaqi Zhang , Ralph Nathan , Daniel J. Sorin

Motivated by the importance of floating-point computations, we study the problem of securely and accurately summing many floating-point numbers. Prior work has focused on security absent accuracy or accuracy absent security, whereas our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Marina Blanton , Michael T. Goodrich , Chen Yuan

The asymptotic iterative decoding performances of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes using min-sum (MS) and sum-product (SP) decoding algorithms on memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels are analyzed in this paper. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chun-Hao Hsu , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We consider the problem of calculating the logical error probability for a stabilizer quantum code subject to random Pauli errors. To access the regime of large code distances where logical errors are extremely unlikely we adopt the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Sergey Bravyi , Alexander Vargo

Compared to the linear MIMO detectors, the Belief Propagation (BP) detector has shown greater capabilities in achieving near optimal performance and better nature to iteratively cooperate with channel decoders. Aiming at real applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Wenyue Zhou , Yifei Shen , Liping Li , Yongming Huang , Chuan Zhang , Xiaohu You

We introduce a new paradigm for finite precision iterative decoding on low-density parity-check codes over the Binary Symmetric channel. The messages take values from a finite alphabet, and unlike traditional quantized decoders which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-23 Shiva Kumar Planjery , David Declercq , Ludovic Danjean , Bane Vasic

To enable fault tolerance on millions of qubits in real time, scalable decoding is necessary, which motivates this paper. Existing decoding algorithms (decoders), such as clustering, matching, belief propagation (BP), and neural networks,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yanzhang Zhu , Chen-Yu Peng , Yun Hao Chen , Yeong-Luh Ueng , Di Wu

We propose four finite-length scaling laws to predict the frame error rate (FER) performance of spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codes under full belief propagation (BP) decoding with a limit on the number of decoding iterations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Roman Sokolovskii , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

The usual belief propagation (BP) decoders are, in general, exchanging local information on the Tanner graph of the quantum error-correcting (QEC) code and, in particular, are known to not have a threshold for the surface code. We propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Pedro Hack , Luca Menti , Francisco Lazaro , Alexandru Paler

Belief propagation (BP) is a message-passing method for solving probabilistic graphical models. It is very successful in treating disordered models (such as spin glasses) on random graphs. On the other hand, finite-dimensional lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-17 Hai-Jun Zhou , Wei-Mou Zheng

The development of multicore architectures supporting parallel data processing has led to a paradigm shift, which affects communication systems significantly. This article provides a scalable parallel approach of an iterative LDPC decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Jan Broulim , Alexander Ayriyan , Vjaceslav Georgiev , Hovik Grigorian

Communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and belief propagation (BP) decoding is considered. The average bit error probability of an irregular LDPC code ensemble after a fixed number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-23 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

We present a framework for the analysis of the error floor of coded slotted ALOHA (CSA) for finite frame lengths over the packet erasure channel. The error floor is caused by stopping sets in the corresponding bipartite graph, whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Mikhail Ivanov , Fredrik Brannstrom , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Petar Popovski

We consider communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and belief propagation (BP) decoding. For fixed numbers of BP iterations, the bit error probability approaches a limit as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes with asymptotically non-zero rates are prominent candidates for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computation, primarily due to their syndrome-measurement circuit's low operational depth.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Nithin Raveendran , Narayanan Rengaswamy , Bane Vasić

Ensuring extremely high reliability in channel coding is essential for 6G networks. The next-generation of ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (xURLLC) scenario within 6G networks requires frame error rate (FER) below $10^{-9}$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Hee-Youl Kwak , Dae-Young Yun , Yongjune Kim , Sang-Hyo Kim , Jong-Seon No

Post-selection strategies that discard low-confidence computational results can significantly improve the effective fidelity of quantum error correction at the cost of reduced acceptance rates, which can be particularly useful for offline…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Seok-Hyung Lee , Lucas H. English , Stephen D. Bartlett

Belief propagation (BP) is a powerful tool to solve distributed inference problems, though it is limited by short cycles in the corresponding factor graph. Such cycles may lead to incorrect solutions or oscillatory behavior. Only for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Christopher Lindberg , Julien M. Hendrickx , Henk Wymeersch