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Tight bounds for several symmetric divergence measures are derived in terms of the total variation distance. It is shown that each of these bounds is attained by a pair of 2 or 3-element probability distributions. An application of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Igal Sason

An efficient decoding algorithm for horizontally u-interleaved LRPC codes is proposed and analyzed. Upper bounds on the decoding failure rate and the computational complexity of the algorithm are derived. It is shown that interleaving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Julian Renner , Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz

Vast numbers of qubits will be needed for large-scale quantum computing due to the overheads associated with error correction. We present a scheme for low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation based on quantum low-density parity-check…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Lawrence Z. Cohen , Isaac H. Kim , Stephen D. Bartlett , Benjamin J. Brown

A generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) code is a class of codes, where single parity check nodes in a conventional low-density parity-check (LDPC) code are replaced by linear codes with higher parity check constraints. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jaewha Kim , Jae-Won Kim , Hee-Youl Kwak , Jong-Seon No

Under polynomial time reduction, the maximum likelihood decoding of a linear code is equivalent to computing the error distance of a received word. It is known that the decoding complexity of standard Reed-Solomon codes at certain radius is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Li Yujuan , Zhu Guizhen

We give a linear-time erasure list-decoding algorithm for expander codes. More precisely, let $r > 0$ be any integer. Given an inner code $C_0$ of length $d$, and a $d$-regular bipartite expander graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Noga Ron-Zewi , Mary Wootters , Gilles Zémor

Product codes (PCs) protect a two-dimensional array of bits using short component codes. Assuming transmission over the binary symmetric channel, the decoding is commonly performed by iteratively applying bounded-distance decoding to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister

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

The free distance of a convolutional code is a reliable indicator of its performance. However its computation is not an easy task. In this paper, we present some algorithms to compute the free distance with good efficiency that work for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zita Abreu , Joachim Rosenthal , Michael Schaller

We study the locally recoverable codes on algebraic curves. In the first part of this article, we provide a bound of generalized Hamming weight of these codes. Whereas in the second part, we propose a new family of algebraic geometric LRC…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Edoardo Ballico , Chiara Marcolla

The matrix representations of linear codes have been well-studied for use as disjunct matrices. However, no connection has previously been made between the properties of disjunct matrices and the parity-check codes obtained from them. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kathryn Haymaker , Emily McMillon

Bounds on linear codes play a central role in coding theory, as they capture the fundamental trade-off between error-correction capability (minimum distance) and information rate (dimension relative to length). Classical results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liren Lin , Guanghui Zhang , Bocong Chen , Hongwei Liu

Quantum low-density parity-check codes reduce quantum error correction overhead but require dense, long-range connectivity that challenges hardware implementation, particularly for superconducting processors. We address this problem by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Guangqi Zhao , Fei Yan , Xiaotong Ni

We present new constructions of quantum codes of linear or close-to-linear distance and dimension with low-weight stabilizers. Only a few constructions of such codes were previously known, and were primarily based on a specific operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Louis Golowich , Venkatesan Guruswami

Linear error-correcting codes form the mathematical backbone of modern digital communication and storage systems, but identifying champion linear codes (linear codes achieving or exceeding the best known minimum Hamming distance) remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yang-Hui He , Alexander Kasprzyk , Q Le , Dmitrii Riabchenko

Recently, a new algorithm to test equivalence of two cyclic codes has been introduced which is efficient and produced useful results. In this work, we generalize this algorithm to constacyclic codes. As an application of the algorithm we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Dev Akre , Nuh Aydin , Matthew J. Harrington , Saurav Pandey

We propose a low-complexity method to find quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check block codes with girth 10 or 12 and shorter length than those designed through classical approaches. The method is extended to time-invariant spatially coupled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Mohammad H. Tadayon , Alireza Tasdighi , Massimo Battaglioni , Marco Baldi , Franco Chiaraluce

Constructing quantum LDPC codes with a minimum distance that grows faster than a square root of the length has been a major challenge of the field. With this challenge in mind, we investigate constructions that come from high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Shai Evra , Tali Kaufman , Gilles Zémor

The main goal of coding theory is to devise efficient systems to exploit the full capacity of a communication channel, thus achieving an arbitrarily small error probability. Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are a family of block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-18 L. Giuzzi , A. Sonnino

We present a construction of LDPC codes that have minimum pseudocodeword weight equal to the minimum distance, and perform well with iterative decoding. The construction involves enumerating a d-regular tree for a fixed number of layers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepak Sridhara , Christine Kelley , Joachim Rosenthal