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Locally recoverable (LRC) codes have recently been a focus point of research in coding theory due to their theoretical appeal and applications in distributed storage systems. In an LRC code, any erased symbol of a codeword can be recovered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Abhishek Agarwal , Alexander Barg , Sihuang Hu , Arya Mazumdar , Itzhak Tamo

In order to protect intellectual property against untrusted foundry, many logic-locking schemes have been developed. The main idea of logic locking is to insert a key-controlled block into a circuit to make the circuit function incorrectly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Jingbo Zhou , Xinmiao Zhang

This paper presents a novel post-quantum cryptosystem based on high-memory masked convolutional codes. Unlike conventional code-based schemes that rely on block codes with fixed dimensions and limited error-correction capability, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Meir Ariel

We consider error decoding of locally repairable codes (LRC) and partial MDS (PMDS) codes through interleaved decoding. For a specific class of LRCs we investigate the success probability of interleaved decoding. For PMDS codes we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In this paper, we analyze the tradeoff between coding rate and asymptotic performance of a class of generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes constructed by including a certain fraction of generalized constraint (GC) nodes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yanfang Liu , Pablo M. Olmos , Tobias Koch

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications. They also find application in various data storage systems because of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

In data storage and data transmission, certain patterns are more likely to be subject to error when written (transmitted) onto the media. In magnetic recording systems with binary data and bipolar non-return-to-zero signaling, patterns that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank

We consider a windowed decoding scheme for LDPC convolutional codes that is based on the belief-propagation (BP) algorithm. We discuss the advantages of this decoding scheme and identify certain characteristics of LDPC convolutional code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aravind Iyengar , Marco Papaleo , Paul Siegel , Jack Wolf , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli , Giovanni Corazza

Fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) is expected to address a wide range of computational problems. To realize large-scale FTQC, it is essential to encode logical qubits using quantum error-correcting codes. High-rate concatenated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Takeshi Kakizaki

Linear programming (LP) decoding approximates maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of a linear block code by relaxing the equivalent ML integer programming (IP) problem into a more easily solved LP problem. The LP problem is defined by a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Xiaojie Zhang , Paul H. Siegel

An efficient decoding algorithm for horizontally u-interleaved LRPC codes is proposed and analyzed. Upper bounds on the decoding failure rate and the computational complexity of the algorithm are derived. It is shown that interleaving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Julian Renner , Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz

We derive a single-letter upper bound to the mismatched-decoding capacity for discrete memoryless channels. The bound is expressed as the mutual information of a transformation of the channel, such that a maximum-likelihood decoding error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ehsan Asadi Kangarshahi , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

Constrained codes are used to prevent errors from occurring in various data storage and data transmission systems. They can help in increasing the storage density of magnetic storage devices, in managing the lifetime of electronic storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ahmed Hareedy , Beyza Dabak , Robert Calderbank

Rank modulation has been recently proposed as a scheme for storing information in flash memories. While rank modulation has advantages in improving write speed and endurance, the current encoding approach is based on the "push to the top"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-16 Eyal En Gad , Anxiao , Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

We study the problem of multi-bit watermarking for large language models (LLMs). We introduce a block-autoregressive model inspired by multi-token prediction, in which the encoder has limited non-causal access to token distributions within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sidong Guo , Tyler Kann , Teodora Baluta , Matthieu R. Bloch

In this work, a new fast-decodable space-time block code (STBC) is proposed. The code is full-rate and full-diversity for 4x2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. Due to the unique structure of the codeword, the proposed code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Ming Liu , Maryline Hélard , Jean-François Hélard , Matthieu Crussière

We introduce a binary embedding framework, called Proximity Preserving Code (PPC), which learns similarity and dissimilarity between data points to create a compact and affinity-preserving binary code. This code can be used to apply fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Inbal Lav , Shai Avidan , Yoram Singer , Yacov Hel-Or

It's known that the bit errors of polar codes with successive cancellation (SC) decoding are coupled. We call the coupled information bits the correlated bits. In this paper, concatenation schemes are studied for polar codes (as inner…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Ya Meng , Liping Li , Yanjun Hu

Error correction codes are a crucial part of the physical communication layer, ensuring the reliable transfer of data over noisy channels. The design of optimal linear block codes capable of being efficiently decoded is of major concern,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf