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A new construction is proposed for low density parity check (LDPC) codes using quadratic permutation polynomials over finite integer rings. The associated graphs for the new codes have both algebraic and pseudo-random nature, and the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Oscar Y. Takeshita

We present a theory of quantum serial turbo-codes, describe their iterative decoding algorithm, and study their performances numerically on a depolarization channel. Our construction offers several advantages over quantum LDPC codes. First,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 David Poulin , Jean-Pierre Tillich , Harold Ollivier

Message-passing iterative decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) block codes are known to be subject to decoding failures due to so-called pseudo-codewords. These failures can cause the large signal-to-noise ratio performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Roxana Smarandache , Ali E. Pusane , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

An algorithm for constructing Tanner graphs of non-binary irregular quasi-cyclic LDPC codes is introduced. It employs a new method for selection of edge labels allowing control over the code's non-binary ACE spectrum and resulting in low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alex Bazarsky , Noam Presman , Simon Litsyn

In Linear Programming (LP) decoding of a Low-Density-Parity-Check (LDPC) code one minimizes a linear functional, with coefficients related to log-likelihood ratios, over a relaxation of the polytope spanned by the codewords \cite{03FWK}. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael Chertkov , Mikhail G. Stepanov

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes provide non vanishing rates, distance scaling with the blocklength of the code, and facilitate fast iterative decoding because of their sparsity. However, in practice iterative decoding fails…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Dimitris Chytas , Paul N. Fessatidis , Boulat A. Bash , Bane Vasić

We initiate the probabilistic analysis of linear programming (LP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Specifically, we show that for a random LDPC code ensemble, the linear programming decoder of Feldman et al. succeeds in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Constantinos Daskalakis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Richard M. Karp , Martin J. Wainwright

The concepts of pseudocodeword and pseudoweight play a fundamental role in the finite-length analysis of LDPC codes. The pseudoredundancy of a binary linear code is defined as the minimum number of rows in a parity-check matrix such that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Zihui Liu , Jens Zumbrägel , Marcus Greferath , Xin-Wen Wu

We present a new family of low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes that can be designed using ordered sets of progressive differences. We study their properties and define a subset of codes in this class that have some desirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Giovanni Cancellieri , Franco Chiaraluce

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anthony Gómez-Fonseca , Gretchen L. Matthews , Kirsten D. Morris , Tefjol Pllaha

We show that Gallager's ensemble of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes achieves list-decoding capacity with high probability. These are the first graph-based codes shown to have this property. This result opens up a potential avenue…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jonathan Mosheiff , Nicolas Resch , Noga Ron-Zewi , Shashwat Silas , Mary Wootters

In his thesis, Wiberg showed the existence of thresholds for families of regular low-density parity-check codes under min-sum algorithm decoding. He also derived analytic bounds on these thresholds. In this paper, we formulate similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Ralf Koetter , Pascal O. Vontobel

We study square-base Calderbank--Shor--Steane (CSS) hypergraph-product codes as a finite-length class for regular high-girth quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) design. For base matrices of small column weight, we give checkable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Koki Okada , Kenta Kasai

In this paper, the concept of the {\it broken diagonal pair} in the chess-like square board is used to define some well-structured block designs whose incidence matrices can be considered as the parity-check matrices of some high rate cycle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Mohammad Gholami , Ghaffar Raeisi

We propose several improvements for Linear Programming (LP) decoding algorithms for High Density Parity Check (HDPC) codes. First, we use the automorphism groups of a code to create parity check matrix diversity and to generate valid cuts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Alex Yufit , Asi Lifshitz , Yair Be'ery

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes received much attention recently due to their capacity-approaching performance. The iterative message-passing algorithm is a widely adopted decoding algorithm for LDPC codes \cite{Kschischang01}. An…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Xudong Ma , En-hui Yang

Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known that, in this classical setting, increasing the girth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kenta Kasai

Recent developments have shown the existence of quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes with constant rate and linear distance. A natural question concerns the efficient decodability of these codes. In this paper, we present a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Shouzhen Gu , Christopher A. Pattison , Eugene Tang

In this paper, a new decoding scheme for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes using the concept of simple product code structure is proposed based on combining two independently received soft-decision data for the same codeword. LDPC codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Beomkyu Shin , Seokbeom Hong , Hosung Park , Jong-Seon No , Dong-Joon Shin

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for finding the dominant trapping sets of a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. The algorithm can be used to estimate the error floor of LDPC codes or to be part of the apparatus to design LDPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Mehdi Karimi , Amir H. Banihashemi