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This paper presents new FEC codes for the erasure channel, LDPC-Band, that have been designed so as to optimize a hybrid iterative-Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding. Indeed, these codes feature simultaneously a sparse parity check matrix,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-23 Alexandre Soro , Mathieu Cunche , Jerome Lacan , Vincent Roca

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

Erasure codes play an important role in storage systems to prevent data loss. In this work, we study a class of erasure codes called Multi-Erasure Locally Recoverable Codes (ME-LRCs) for storage arrays. Compared to previous related works,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

In this paper, we propose a new erasure decoding algorithm for convolutional codes using the generator matrix. This implies that our decoding method also applies to catastrophic convolutional codes in opposite to the classic approach using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Julia Lieb , Raquel Pinto , Carlos Vela

In this work, we provide four methods for constructing new maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD) codes. The first method, a variant of cartesian products, allows faster decoding than known MSRD codes of the same parameters. The other three…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

We consider irregular product codes.In this class of codes, each codeword is represented by a matrix. The entries in each row (column) of the matrix should come from a component row (column) code. As opposed to (standard) product codes, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Masoud Alipour , Omid Etesami , Ghid Maatouk , Amin Shokrollahi

MDS codes have diverse practical applications in communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and optimal error-correcting capability. In this paper, we focus on a class of linear codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yansheng Wu , Ziling Heng , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a popular dimensionality reduction techniques that has been widely used for network visualization and cooperative localization. However, the traditional stress minimization formulation of MDS necessitates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Ketan Rajawat , Sandeep Kumar

In this paper, we propose two new constructions of exact-repair minimum storage regenerating (exact-MSR) codes. For both constructions, the encoded symbols are obtained by treating the message vector over GF(q) as a linearized polynomial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

We apply automata theory and Karp's minimum mean weight cycle algorithm to minimum density problems in coding theory. Using this method, we find the new upper bound $53/126 \approx 0.4206$ for the minimum density of an identifying code on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Ville Salo , Ilkka Törmä

This short note revisits the problem of designing secure minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes for distributed storage systems. A secure MSR code ensures that a distributed storage system does not reveal the stored information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ankit Singh Rawat

This paper examines the construction of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from transversal designs based on sets of mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLS). By transferring the concept of configurations in combinatorial designs to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Alexander Gruner , Michael Huber

A family of codes with a natural two-dimensional structure is presented, inspired by an application of RAID type of architectures whose units are solid state drives (SSDs). Arrays of SSDs behave differently to arrays of hard disk drives…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Mario Blaum , James Lee Hafner , Steven Hetzler

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

We consider the problem of constructing an erasure code for storage over a network when the data sources are distributed. Specifically, we assume that there are n storage nodes with limited memory and k<n sources generating the data. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Vinod Prabhakaran , Kannan Ramchandran

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 policy-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) decoder that achieves near maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD) performance for short block codes. The MCTS decoder searches for test error patterns (TEPs) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Y. Tian , C. Yue , P. Cheng , G. Pang , B. Vucetic , Y. Li

In this paper, we present two constructions of degraded read friendly (DRF) MDS array codes with two parity nodes and a sub-packetization level of 2 over small finite fields, applicable for any arbitrary code length. The first construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang

Convolutional codes are a class of error-correcting codes that performs very well over erasure channels with low delay requirements. In particular, Maximum Distance Profile (MDP) convolutional codes, which are defined to have optimal column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zita Abreu , Julia Lieb , Raquel Pinto