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The complexity of Machine Learning (ML) systems increases each year, with current implementations of large language models or text-to-image generators having billions of parameters and requiring billions of arithmetic operations. As these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Pedro Reviriego , Ziheng Wang , Alvaro Alonso , Zhen Gao , Farzad Niknia , Shanshan Liu , Fabrizio Lombardi

In "On Coding for Reliable Communication over Packet Networks" (Lun, Medard, and Effros, Proc. 42nd Annu. Allerton Conf. Communication, Control, and Computing, 2004), a capacity-achieving coding scheme for unicast or multicast over lossy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Desmond S. Lun , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Michelle Effros

We discuss how the presence of gauge sub-systems in the Bacon-Shor code [D. Bacon, Phys. Rev. A 73, 012340 (2006)] leads to remarkably simple and efficient methods for fault-tolerant error correction (FTEC). Most notably, FTEC does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Panos Aliferis , Andrew W. Cross

Forward error correcting (FEC) codes are used in many communication standards with a wide range of re quirements. FEC codes should work close to capacity, achieve low error floors, and have low decoding complexity. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Vincent Wüst , Erdem Eray Cil , Laurent Schmalen

In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important consideration is the efficient repair of a failed node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

We explore connections between secret sharing and secret key agreement, which yield a simple and scalable multiterminal key agreement protocol. In our construction, we use error-correcting codes, specifically Reed-Solomon codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Benjamin D. Kim , Daniel Alabi , Lav R. Varshney

Physical-layer network coding improves the throughput of the two-way relay channel by allowing multiple source terminals to transmit simultaneously to the relay. However, it is generally not feasible to align the phases of the multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Terry Ferrett , Matthew C. Valenti , Don Torrieri

Recently, we introduced a new class of finite alphabet iterative decoders (FAIDs) for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. These decoders are capable of surpassing belief propagation in the error floor region on the Binary Symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Declercq , Bane Vasic , Shiva Kumar Planjery , Erbao Li

Fault-tolerant (FT) computation by using quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for realizing large-scale quantum algorithms. Devices are expected to have enough qubits to demonstrate aspects of fault tolerance in the near future.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Lingling Lao , Carmen G. Almudever

An iterative decoding algorithm for convolutional codes is presented. It successively processes $N$ consecutive blocks of the received word in order to decode the first block. A bound is presented showing which error configurations can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-07 H. Gluesing-Luerssen , U. Helmke , J. I. Iglesias Curto

Successive relaying can improve the transmission rate by allowing the source and relays to transmit messages simultaneously, but it may cause severe inter-relay interference (IRI). IRI cancellation schemes have been proposed to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lingrui Zhang , Yuxing Han , Qiong Wang , Wei Chen

In this paper, we consider the problem of variable packet-error coding, which emerges in network communication scenarios where a source transmits information to a destination through multiple disjoint paths. The objective is to design codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xiangliang Kong , Xin Wang , Ron M. Roth , Itzhak Tamo

Insertion and deletion (insdel for short) errors are synchronization errors in communication systems caused by the loss of positional information in the message. Reed-Solomon codes have gained a lot of interest due to its encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Tai Do Duc , Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

We present a capacity-achieving coding scheme for unicast or multicast over lossy packet networks. In the scheme, intermediate nodes perform additional coding yet do not decode nor even wait for a block of packets before sending out coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-11 Desmond S. Lun , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Michelle Effros

We describe a novel extension of subspace codes for noncoherent networks, suitable for use when the network is viewed as a communication system that introduces both dimension and symbol errors. We show that when symbol erasures occur in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Vitaly Skachek , Olgica Milenkovic , Angelia Nedic

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a strong candidate for the sixth-generation wireless network thanks to its strong resilience to delay-Doppler spreads. In this letter, we investigate the error performance of coded AFDM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Haoran Yin

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are prominent polynomial codes over finite fields, renowned for achieving list decoding capacity. These codes have found a wide range of applications beyond the traditional scope…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Itzhak Tamo

We propose a two-stage concatenated coding scheme for reliable and secure communication over intersymbol interference wiretap channels. We first establish the secrecy capacity. Then, motivated by the theoretical codes that achieve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Aria Nouri , Reza Asvadi , Jun Chen

Lookup table decoding is fast and distance-preserving, making it attractive for near-term quantum computer architectures with small-distance quantum error-correcting codes. In this work, we develop several optimization tools that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Balint Pato , Theerapat Tansuwannont , Shilin Huang , Kenneth R. Brown

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