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Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Peihong Yuan , Chengshan Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang

Polar codes were recently introduced by Ar\i kan. They achieve the capacity of arbitrary symmetric binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancellation decoding strategy. The original polar code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-26 Satish Babu Korada , Eren Sasoglu , Rudiger Urbanke

In this paper, we study codes with sparse generator matrices. More specifically, low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes with a certain constraint on the weight of the columns in the generator matrix are considered. In this paper, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 James Chin-Jen Pang , Hessam Mahdavifar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Polar codes are the latest breakthrough in coding theory, as they are the first family of codes with explicit construction that provably achieve the symmetric capacity of discrete memoryless channels. Ar{\i}kan's polar encoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Mostafa El-Khamy , Hessam Mahdavifar , Gennady Feygin , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

Reed-Muller codes were introduced in 1954, with a simple explicit construction based on polynomial evaluations, and have long been conjectured to achieve Shannon capacity on symmetric channels. Major progress was made towards a proof over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

Polar codes, introduced by Arikan, achieve symmetric capacity of any discrete memoryless channels under low encoding and decoding complexity. Recently, non-binary polar codes have been investigated. In this paper, we calculate error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka

The decoding error probability of codes is studied as a function of their block length. It is shown that the existence of codes with a polynomially small decoding error probability implies the existence of codes with an exponentially small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexei Ashikhmin , Vitaly Skachek

Polar codes were introduced in 2009 and proven to achieve the symmetric capacity of any binary-input discrete memoryless channel under low-complexity successive cancellation decoding. In this thesis, we construct cyclic polar codes based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Narayanan Rengaswamy

In this paper, we prove that the sub-field images of generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) codes can achieve the symmetric capacity of p-ary memoryless channels. Unlike the totally random linear code ensemble, as a class of maximum distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiangping Zheng , Xiao Ma

Let $W$ be a binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channel with Shannon capacity $I(W)$ and fix any $\alpha > 0$. We construct, for any sufficiently small $\delta > 0$, binary linear codes of block length $O(1/\delta^{2+\alpha})$ and rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Venkatesan Guruswami , Andrii Riazanov , Min Ye

A pruned variant of polar coding is proposed for binary erasure channels. For sufficiently small $\varepsilon>0$, we construct a series of capacity achieving codes with block length $N=\varepsilon^{-5}$, code rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

The definition of polar codes given by Arikan is explicit, but the construction complexity is an issue. This is due to the exponential growth in the size of the output alphabet of the bit-channels as the codeword length increases. Tal and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Arash Ghayoori , T. Aaron Gulliver

Polar coding over a class of binary discrete memoryless channels with channel knowledge at the encoder is studied. It is shown that polar codes achieve the capacity of convex and one-sided classes of symmetric channels.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Mine Alsan

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

In the last years, Regev's reduction has been used as a quantum algorithmic tool for providing a quantum advantage for variants of the decoding problem. Following this line of work, the authors of [JSW+24] have recently come up with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 André Chailloux , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We establish a general framework for construction of small ensembles of capacity achieving linear codes for a wide range of (not necessarily memoryless) discrete symmetric channels, and in particular, the binary erasure and symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Mahdi Cheraghchi

We propose an iterative method for approximating the capacity of classical-quantum channels with a discrete input alphabet and a finite dimensional output, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 David Sutter , Tobias Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Renato Renner

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

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

Using a mild variant of polar codes we design linear compression schemes compressing Hidden Markov sources (where the source is a Markov chain, but whose state is not necessarily observable from its output), and to decode from Hidden Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Venkatesan Guruswami , Preetum Nakkiran , Madhu Sudan