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We propose a belief propagation list (BPL) decoder with comparable performance to the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder of polar codes, which already achieves the maximum likelihood (ML) bound of polar codes for sufficiently large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Reed-Muller (RM) and polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving channel coding schemes with the same factor graph representation. Low-complexity decoding algorithms fall short in providing a good error-correction performance for RM and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

A successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder with limited list size for polar codes can not be analyzed as a successive cancellation (SC) decoder, nor as a maximum likelihood (ML) decoder, due to the complicated decoding errors caused by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Daiming Qu , Tao Jiang

We combine two approaches to optimize the iterative decoding of product codes with precoded polar component codes. On one side, we generate bitwise soft messages based on the codebook probability, an approximation of an auxiliary quantity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Nicolás Alvarez Prado , Andreas Straßhofer

Polar code is a breakthrough in coding theory. Using list successive cancellation decoding with large list size L, polar codes can achieve excellent error correction performance. The L partial decoded vectors are stored in the path memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

This paper presents the first proof of polarization for the deletion channel with a constant deletion rate and a regular hidden-Markov input distribution. A key part of this work involves representing the deletion channel using a trellis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ido Tal , Henry D. Pfister , Arman Fazeli , Alexander Vardy

Polar codes are of great interests because they provably achieve the capacity of both discrete and continuous memoryless channels while having an explicit construction. Most existing decoding algorithms of polar codes are based on bit-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

Polar codes have gained significant amount of attention during the past few years and have been selected as a coding scheme for the next generation of mobile broadband standard. Among decoding schemes, successive-cancellation list (SCL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

Polar encoding, described by Arikan in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, July 2009, was a milestone for telecommunications. A Polar code distributes information among high and low-capacity channels, showing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Geraldo A. Barbosa

We consider lossy source compression of a binary symmetric source using polar codes and the low-complexity successive encoding algorithm. It was recently shown by Arikan that polar codes achieve the capacity of arbitrary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Satish Babu Korada , Rudiger Urbanke

A novel construction of polar codes with dynamic frozen symbols is proposed. The proposed codes are subcodes of extended BCH codes, which ensure sufficiently high minimum distance. Furthermore, a decoding algorithm is proposed, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Peter Trifonov , Vera Miloslavskaya

In this work, we present hardware and software implementations of flexible polar systematic encoders and decoders. The proposed implementations operate on polar codes of any length less than a maximum and of any rate. We describe the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Gabi Sarkis , Ido Tal , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

For reliable transmission across a noisy communication channel, classical results from information theory show that it is asymptotically optimal to separate out the source and channel coding processes. However, this decomposition can fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Kristy Choi , Kedar Tatwawadi , Aditya Grover , Tsachy Weissman , Stefano Ermon

This work is on fast encoding and decoding of polar codes. We propose and detail 8-bit and 16-bit parallel decoders that can be used to reduce the decoding latency of the successive-cancellation decoder. These decoders are universal and can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Muhammad Hanif , Masoud Ardakani

The recently-discovered polar codes are widely seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory. These codes achieve the capacity of many important channels under successive cancellation decoding. Motivated by the rapid progress in the theory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Camille Leroux , Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy , Warren J. Gross

This paper presents an efficient hardware design approach for list successive cancellation (LSC) decoding of polar codes. By applying path-overlapping scheme, the l instances of (l > 1) successive cancellation (SC) decoder for LSC with list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Tiben Che , Jingwei Xu , Gwan Choi

The successive cancellation list decoder (SCL) is an efficient decoder for classical polar codes with low decoding error, approximating the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for small list sizes. Here we adapt the SCL to the task of decoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Joseph M. Renes

Polar codes are a channel coding scheme for the next generation of wireless communications standard (5G). The belief propagation (BP) decoder allows for parallel decoding of polar codes, making it suitable for high throughput applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Nghia Doan , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

Quantum reading provides a general framework where to formulate the statistical discrimination of quantum channels. Several paths have been taken for such a problem. However, there is much to be done in the avenue of optimizing channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini

A deep-learning-aided successive-cancellation list (DL-SCL) decoding algorithm for polar codes is introduced with deep-learning-aided successive-cancellation (DL-SC) decoding being a specific case of it. The DL-SCL decoder works by allowing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross