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Turbo codes and CRC codes are usually decoded separately according to the serially concatenated inner codes and outer codes respectively. In this letter, we propose a hybrid decoding algorithm of turbo-CRC codes, where the outer codes, CRC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Yuejun Wei , Ming Jiang , Wen Chen , Yuhang Yang

We introduce a decoder for the 3D color code with boundaries, which is a variation of the restriction decoder introduced by Kubicka and Delfosse. Specifically, we adapt the lift procedure to efficiently find a correction on qubits adjacent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Skylar Turner , Josey Hanish , Eion Blanchard , Noah Davis , Brian La Cour

Different choices of quantum error-correcting codes can reduce the demands on the physical hardware needed to build a quantum computer. To achieve the full potential of a code, we must develop practical decoding algorithms that can correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik , Benjamin J. Brown

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-the-art low-complexity decoding algorithm can be improved to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Pascal Giard , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Gabi Sarkis , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

Tensor codes are a generalisation of matrix codes. Such codes are defined as subspaces of order-r tensors for which the ambient space is endowed with the tensor-rank as a metric. A class of these codes was introduced by Roth, who also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eimear Byrne , Alain Couvreur , Lucien François

We extend the notion of locality from the Hamming metric to the rank and subspace metrics. Our main contribution is to construct a class of array codes with locality constraints in the rank metric. Our motivation for constructing such codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Swanand Kadhe , Salim El Rouayheb , Iwan Duursma , Alex Sprintson

We study coding schemes for error correction in interactive communications. Such interactive coding schemes simulate any $n$-round interactive protocol using $N$ rounds over an adversarial channel that corrupts up to $\rho N$ transmissions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

Topological stabilizer codes, such as the toric and surface codes, are leading candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. While their decodability under stochastic noise has been extensively studied, the effects of coherent errors,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Zhou Yang , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Chao-Ming Jian

Quantum error correction typically requires repeated syndrome extraction due to measurement noise, which results in substantial time overhead in fault-tolerant computation. Single-shot error correction aims to suppress errors using only one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yingjia Lin , Abhinav Anand , Kenneth R. Brown

In this paper, a derandomized algorithm for sampling decoding is proposed to achieve near-optimal performance in lattice decoding. By setting a probability threshold to sample candidates, the whole sampling procedure becomes deterministic,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zheng Wang , Shuiyin Liu , Cong Ling

Advances in hardware and language model architecture have spurred a revolution in natural language generation. However, autoregressive models compute probability distributions over next-token choices, and sampling from these distributions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tom Kempton , Stuart Burrell

Discrete speech tokenization is a fundamental component in speech codecs. However, in large-scale speech-to-speech systems, the complexity of parallel streams from multiple quantizers and the computational cost of high-time-dimensional…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rongkun Xue , Yazhe Niu , Shuai Hu , Zixin Yin , Yongqiang Yao , Jing Yang

This paper studies the second-order asymptotics of coding rates for the discrete memoryless multiple-access channel with a fixed target error probability. Using constant-composition random coding, coded time-sharing, and a variant of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We introduce an accurate and efficient method for a class of nonlocal potential evaluations with free boundary condition, including the 3D/2D Coulomb, 2D Poisson and 3D dipolar potentials. Our method is based on a Gaussian-sum approximation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Lukas Exl , Norbert J. Mauser , Yong Zhang

Surface codes are a promising method of quantum error correction and the basis of many proposed quantum computation implementations. However, their efficient decoding is still not fully explored. Recently, approaches based on machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Thomas Wagner , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Toric codes are a type of evaluation code introduced by J.P. Hansen in 2000. They are produced by evaluating (a vector space composed by) polynomials at the points of $(\mathbb{F}_q^*)^s$, the monomials of these polynomials being related to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Cícero Carvalho , Nupur Patanker

An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau

This paper addresses the problem of designing LDPC decoders robust to transient errors introduced by a faulty hardware. We assume that the faulty hardware introduces errors during the message passing updates and we propose a general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Elsa Dupraz , David Declercq , Bane Vasic , Valentin Savin

The topological color code and the toric code are two leading candidates for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here we show that the color code on a $d$-dimensional closed manifold is equivalent to multiple decoupled copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Aleksander Kubica , Beni Yoshida , Fernando Pastawski

PhD thesis investigating homological quantum codes derived from curved and higher dimensional geometries. In the first part we will consider closed surfaces with constant negative curvature. We show how such surfaces can be constructed and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Nikolas P. Breuckmann