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This letter introduces a novel channel coding design framework for short-length codewords that permits balancing the tradeoff between the bit error rate floor and waterfall region by modifying a single real-valued parameter. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. crespo , Javier Del Ser

Determining the exact decoding error probability of linear block codes is an interesting problem. For binary BCH codes, McEliece derived methods to estimate the error probability of a simple bounded distance decoding (BDD) for BCH codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sisi Miao , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

Current quantum computers suffer from a level of noise that prohibits extracting useful results directly from longer computations. The figure of merit in many near-term quantum algorithms is an expectation value measured at the end of the…

Systematic polar codes are shown to outperform non-systematic polar codes in terms of the bit-error-rate (BER) performance. However theoretically the mechanism behind the better performance of systematic polar codes is not yet clear. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Liping Li , Wenyi Zhang , Yanjun Hu

With the success of transformer architectures across diverse applications, the error correction code transformer (ECCT) has gained significant attention for its superior decoding performance. In spite of its advantages, the error floor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Taewoo Park , Seong-Joon Park , Hee-Youl Kwak , Sang-Hyo Kim , Yongjune Kim

This paper outlines a three-step procedure for determining the low bit error rate performance curve of a wide class of LDPC codes of moderate length. The traditional method to estimate code performance in the higher SNR region is to use a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chad A. Cole , Stephen G. Wilson , Eric. K. Hall , Thomas R. Giallorenzi

This paper gives some theory and efficient design of binary block systematic codes capable of controlling the deletions of the symbol ``$0$'' (referred to as $0$-deletions) and/or the insertions of the symbol ``$0$'' (referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Luca G. Tallini , Nawaf Alqwaifly , Bella Bose

We consider the problem of optimally decoding a quantum error correction code -- that is to find the optimal recovery procedure given the outcomes of partial "check" measurements on the system. In general, this problem is NP-hard. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Poulin

Error-correcting codes are usually envisioned to counter errors by operating unitary corrections depending on the projective measurement results of some syndrome observables. We here propose a way to use them in a more integrated way, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Vincent Martin , Alain Sarlette

Binary measurements arise naturally in a variety of statistical and engineering applications. They may be inherent to the problem---e.g., in determining the relationship between genetics and the presence or absence of a disease---or they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Richard Baraniuk , Simon Foucart , Deanna Needell , Yaniv Plan , Mary Wootters

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is essential for building robust, fault-tolerant quantum computers; however, the decoding process often presents a significant computational bottleneck. Tesseract is a novel Most-Likely-Error (MLE) decoder for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Dragana Grbic , Laleh Aghababaie Beni , Noah Shutty

In some Internet of Things (IoT) applications, multi-path propagation is a main constraint of communication channel. Recently, the chaotic baseband wireless communication system (CBWCS) is promising to eliminate the inter-symbol…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Hui-Ping Yin , Chao Bai , Hai-Peng Ren

Error Span Detection (ESD) extends automatic machine translation (MT) evaluation by localizing translation errors and labeling their severity. Current generative ESD methods typically use Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) decoding, assuming that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Boxuan Lyu , Haiyue Song , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Chenchen Ding , Hideki Tanaka , Masao Utiyama , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Quantum Error Correction Codes (QECCs) are pivotal in advancing quantum computing by protecting quantum states against the adverse effects of noise and errors. With a variety of QECCs developed, including new developments and modifications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Avimita Chatterjee , Swaroop Ghosh

Encoding quantum information in a quantum error correction (QEC) code enhances protection against errors. Imperfection of quantum devices due to decoherence effects will limit the fidelity of quantum gate operations. In particular, neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 J. J. Postema , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

Quantum error correcting (QEC) codes protect quantum information against environmental noise. Computational errors caused by the environment change the quantum state within the qubit subspace, whereas quantum erasures correspond to the loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Luis Colmenarez , Seyong Kim , Markus Müller

We investigate the limits of quantum error correction (QEC) in neutral-atom processors approaching high-fidelity gates and fast cycle times. We show that shorter QEC cycles amplify platform-specific errors, notably Rydberg excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Laura Pecorari , Gavin K. Brennen , Stanimir S. Kondov , Guido Pupillo

It has recently been shown that there are efficient algorithms for quantum computers to solve certain problems, such as prime factorization, which are intractable to date on classical computers. The chances for practical implementation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adriano Barenco , Todd A. Brun , Ruediger Schack , Tim Spiller

Finite alphabet iterative decoders (FAIDs) for LDPC codes were recently shown to be capable of surpassing the Belief Propagation (BP) decoder in the error floor region on the Binary Symmetric channel (BSC). More recently, the technique of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Shiva Kumar Planjery , Bane Vasic , David Declercq

Because of their capacity-approaching performance, graph-based codes have a wide range of applications, including communications and storage. In these codes, unequal error protection (UEP) can offer performance gains with limited rate loss.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Beyza Dabak , Ahmed Hareedy , Alexei Ashikhmin , Robert Calderbank