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Near-term quantum workloads demand error management, yet the two lightest-weight techniques, Quantum Error Detection (QED) and Probabilistic Error Cancellation (PEC), have complementary cost profiles whose joint architectural design space…

The optimal decoder achieving the outage capacity under imperfect channel estimation is investigated. First, by searching into the family of nearest neighbor decoders, which can be easily implemented on most practical coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pablo Piantanida , Sajad Sadough , Pierre Duhamel

We consider communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and belief propagation (BP) decoding. The bit error probability for infinite block length is known by density evolution and it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-23 Ryuhei Mori , Kenta Kasai , Tomoharu Shibuya , Kohichi Sakaniwa

Various noise models have been developed in quantum computing study to describe the propagation and effect of the noise which is caused by imperfect implementation of hardware. Identifying parameters such as gate and readout error rates are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Muqing Zheng , Ang Li , Tamás Terlaky , Xiu Yang

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

A class of two-bit bit flipping algorithms for decoding low-density parity-check codes over the binary symmetric channel was proposed in [1]. Initial results showed that decoders which employ a group of these algorithms operating in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Dung Viet Nguyen , Bane Vasic , Michael W. Marcellin

Quantum error correcting codes (QECCs) are the means of choice whenever quantum systems suffer errors, e.g., due to imperfect devices, environments, or faulty channels. By now, a plethora of families of codes is known, but there is no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Benjamin Desef , Martin B. Plenio

The bit-wise unequal error protection problem, for the case when the number of groups of bits $\ell$ is fixed, is considered for variable length block codes with feedback. An encoding scheme based on fixed length block codes with erasures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Baris Nakiboglu , Siva K. Gorantla , Lizhong Zheng , Todd P. Coleman

Quantum error correction uses the measurement of syndromes and classical decoding algorithms to estimate the location and type of errors while protecting the encoded quantum bits. Here we consider how prior information and Bayesian updates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jonathan Kunjummen , Jacob M. Taylor

Consider the problem of identifying a massive number of bees, uniquely labeled with barcodes, using noisy measurements. We formally introduce this `bee-identification problem', define its error exponent, and derive efficiently computable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Anshoo Tandon , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Lav R. Varshney

An error correcting code ($\mathsf{ECC}$) allows a sender to send a message to a receiver such that even if a constant fraction of the communicated bits are corrupted, the receiver can still learn the message correctly. Due to their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Meghal Gupta , Yael Tauman Kalai , Rachel Zhang

Quantum error correction (QEC) is an essential concept for any quantum information processing device. Typically, QEC is designed with minimal assumptions about the noise process; this generic assumption exacts a high cost in efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-26 Andrew S. Fletcher

State-of-the-art techniques for addressing scaling-related main memory errors identify and repair bits that are at risk of error from within the memory controller. Unfortunately, modern main memory chips internally use on-die error…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Minesh Patel , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

In this paper, network error control coding is studied for robust and efficient multicast in a directed acyclic network with imperfect links. The block network error control coding framework, BNEC, is presented and the capability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-25 Hossein Bahramgiri , Farshad Lahouti

Error Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) is a successful technique in multi-class classification, which is a core problem in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. A major advantage of ECOC over other methods is that the multi- class problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Miguel Angel Bautista , Oriol Pujol , Fernando de la Torre , Sergio Escalera

Probabilistic error cancellation (PEC) is a leading quantum error mitigation method that provides an unbiased estimate, although it is known to have a large sampling overhead. In this work, we propose a new method to perform PEC, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Yi-Hsiang Chen

Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOCs) offer a principled approach for combining simple binary classifiers into multiclass classifiers. In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing optimal ECOCs to achieve both nominal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Samarth Gupta , Saurabh Amin

In this paper, we investigate an artificial-intelligence (AI) driven approach to design error correction codes (ECC). Classic error correction code was designed upon coding theory that typically defines code properties (e.g., hamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Lingchen Huang , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

As quantum computers mature, quantum error correcting codes (QECs) will be adopted in order to suppress errors to any desired level $E$ at a cost in qubit-count $n$ that is merely poly-logarithmic in $1/E$. However in the NISQ era, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Bálint Koczor