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The capacity of a channel can usually be characterized as a maximization of certain entropic quantities. From a practical point of view it is of primary interest to not only compute the capacity value, but also to find the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of error control in a coded, multicast network, focusing on the scenario where the errors can occur only on a proper subset of the network edges. We model this problem via an adversarial noise, presenting a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Allison Beemer , Altan Berdan Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

It has been an open question in deep learning if fault-tolerant computation is possible: can arbitrarily reliable computation be achieved using only unreliable neurons? In the grid cells of the mammalian cortex, analog error correction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Alexander Zlokapa , Andrew K. Tan , John M. Martyn , Ila R. Fiete , Max Tegmark , Isaac L. Chuang

Reliability analysis aims at estimating the failure probability of an engineering system. It often requires multiple runs of a limit-state function, which usually relies on computationally intensive simulations. Traditionally, these…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-22 Anderson V. Pires , Maliki Moustapha , Stefano Marelli , Bruno Sudret

In this paper, we consider a recent channel model of a nanopore sequencer proposed by McBain, Viterbo, and Saunderson (2024), termed the noisy nanopore channel (NNC). In essence, an NNC is a duplication channel with structured, Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Nir Weinberger

We consider the problem of sequential decision making on random fields corrupted by noise. In this scenario, the decision maker observes a noisy version of the data, yet judged with respect to the clean data. In particular, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Asaf Cohen , Tsachy Weissman , Neri Merhav

Finding a computable expression for the feedback capacity of channels with colored Gaussian, additive noise is a long standing open problem. In this paper, we solve this problem in the scenario where the channel has multiple inputs and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Oron Sabag , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

A general quantum noisy channel is analyzed, wherein the transmitted qubits may experience symmetry-breaking decoherence, along with memory effects. We find the optimal basis not to be fully entangled, but a combination of factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Goren Gordon , Gershon Kurizki

An upper bound on the capacity of a cascade of nonlinear and noisy channels is presented. The cascade mimics the split-step Fourier method for computing waveform propagation governed by the stochastic generalized nonlinear Schroedinger…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Gerhard Kramer , Mansoor I. Yousefi , Frank R. Kschischang

Recent advances in associative memory design through structured pattern sets and graph-based inference algorithms have allowed reliable learning and recall of an exponential number of patterns. Although these designs correct external errors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Amin Karbasi , Amir Hesam Salavati , Amin Shokrollahi , Lav R. Varshney

It is well known that the problem of computing the feedback capacity of a stationary Gaussian channel can be recast as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem; moreover, necessary and sufficient conditions for the optimality of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Tao Liu , Guangyue Han

In this paper, we put forward secure network function computation over a directed acyclic network. In such a network, a sink node is required to compute with zero error a target function of which the inputs are generated as source messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xuan Guang , Yang Bai , Raymond W. Yeung

We consider communication over a noisy network under randomized linear network coding. Possible error mechanism include node- or link- failures, Byzantine behavior of nodes, or an over-estimate of the network min-cut. Building on the work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-27 Andrea Montanari , Ruediger Urbanke

Quantum error correction protocols have been developed to offset the high sensitivity to noise inherent in quantum systems. However, much is still unknown about the behaviour of a quantum error-correcting code under general noise, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Stefanie J. Beale , Joel J. Wallman

We study the properties of output distributions of noisy, random circuits. We obtain upper and lower bounds on the expected distance of the output distribution from the "useless" uniform distribution. These bounds are tight with respect to…

Quantum memory systems are vital in quantum information processing for dependable storage and retrieval of quantum states. Inspired by classical reliability theories that synthesize reliable computing systems from unreliable components, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Anuj K. Nayak , Eric Chitambar , Lav R. Varshney

We consider distributed computations between two parties carried out over a noisy channel that may erase messages. Following a noise model proposed by Dani et al. (2018), the noise level observed by the parties during the computation in our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ran Gelles , Siddharth Iyer

In this paper, we revisit the problem of finding the average capacity of the Gaussian feedback channel. First, we consider the problem of finding the average capacity of the analog Gaussian noise channel where the noise has an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Ather Gattami

We consider the additive white Gaussian noise channels. We prove that the error probability of decoding tends to one exponentially for rates above the capacity and derive the optimal exponent function. We shall demonstrate that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Yasutada Oohama

Understanding the computational power of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is of both fundamental and practical importance to quantum information science. Here, we address the question of whether error-uncorrected noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Kyungjoo Noh , Liang Jiang , Bill Fefferman