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Good quantum error-correcting codes that fulfill practical considerations, such as simple encoding circuits and efficient decoders, are essential for functional quantum information processing systems. Quantum polar codes satisfy some of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Keita Hidaka , Dina Abdelhadi , Ruediger Urbanke

A multilevel coded modulation scheme is studied that uses solely binary polar codes and Honda-Yamamoto probabilistic shaping. The scheme is shown to achieve the capacity of discrete memoryless channels with input alphabets of cardinality a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Constantin Runge , Thomas Wiegart , Diego Lentner , Tobias Prinz

We propose efficient coding schemes for two communication settings: 1. asymmetric channels, and 2. channels with an informed encoder. These settings are important in non-volatile memories, as well as optical and broadcast communication. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Eyal En Gad , Yue Li , Joerg Kliewer , Michael Langberg , Anxiao Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

It is known that polar codes can be efficiently constructed for binary-input channels. At the same time, existing algorithms for general input alphabets are less practical because of high complexity. We address the construction problem for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Talha Cihad Gulcu , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

When a neural network (NN) is used to decode a polar code, its training complexity scales exponentially as the code block size (or to be precise, as a number of message bits) increases. Therefore, existing solutions that use a neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Evgeny Stupachenko

We provide a generalization of quantum polar codes to quantum channels with qudit-input, achieving the symmetric coherent information of the channel. Our scheme relies on a channel combining and splitting construction, where a two-qudit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Ashutosh Goswami , Mehdi Mhalla , Valentin Savin

Arikan has shown that systematic polar codes (SPC) outperform nonsystematic polar codes (NSPC). However, the performance gain comes at the price of elevated encoding complexity, i.e., compared to NSPC, the available encoding methods for SPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Guo Tai Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Liang Zhang

We show that the mismatched capacity of binary discrete memoryless channels can be improved by channel combining and splitting via Ar{\i}kan's polar transformations. We also show that the improvement is possible even if the transformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Mine Alsan , Emre Telatar

In this work, we investigate the performance of polar codes with the assistance of feedback in communication systems. Although it is well known that feedback does not improve the capacity of memoryless channels, we show that the finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ling Liu , Qi Cao , Liping Li , Baoming Bai

Ar{\i}kan's polar coding technique is based on the idea of synthesizing $n$ channels from the $n$ instances of the physical channel by a simple linear encoding transformation. Each synthesized channel corresponds to a particular input to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter , S. Hamed Hassani

In this paper, we show some applications of algebraic curves to the construction of kernels of polar codes over a discrete memoryless channel which is symmetric w.r.t the field operations. We will also study the minimum distance of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Eduardo Camps , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Eliseo Sarmiento

Polar coding solutions demonstrate excellent performance under the list decoding that is challenging to implement in hardware due to the path sorting operations. As a potential solution to this problem, permutation decoding recently became…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kirill Ivanov , Rüdiger Urbanke

Recently, a novel variation of polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes has been introduced by Ar{\i}kan. These codes significantly outperform conventional polar and convolutional codes, particularly for short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

We introduce the design of a set of code sequences $ \{ {\mathscr C}_{n}^{(m)} : n\geq 1, m \geq 1 \}$, with memory order $m$ and code-length $N=O(\phi^n)$, where $ \phi \in (1,2]$ is the largest real root of the polynomial equation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Hüseyin Afşer , Hakan Deliç

In this paper, we propose a novel partial order for binary discrete memoryless channels that we call the symmetric convex ordering. We show that Ar{\i}kan's polar transform preserves 'symmetric convex orders'. Furthermore, we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Mine Alsan

In this paper we show how to attain the capacity of discrete symmetric channels with polynomial time decoding complexity by considering iterated $(U|U+V)$ constructions with Reed-Solomon code or algebraic geometry code components. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Irene Marquez-Corbella , Jean-Pierre Tillich

After the pursuit of seventy years, the invention of polar codes indicates that we have found the first capacity-achieving coding with low complexity construction and decoding, which is the great breakthrough of the coding theory in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kai Niu , Ping Zhang , Jincheng Dai , Zhongwei Si , Chao Dong

We study the application of polar codes in deletion channels by analyzing the cascade of a binary erasure channel (BEC) and a deletion channel. We show how polar codes can be used effectively on a BEC with a single deletion, and propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Eldho K. Thomas , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Alexander Vardy , Mehul Motani

Polar codes are constructed based on the reliability of sub-channels resulting from the polarization effect. However, this information-theoretic construction approach leads to a poor weight distribution. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Explicit coding schemes are proposed to achieve the rate-distortion function of the Heegard-Berger problem using polar codes. Specifically, a nested polar code construction is employed to achieve the rate-distortion function for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Jinwen Shi , Ling Liu , Deniz Gündüz , Cong Ling