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In this work, we develop a reduced complexity maximum likelihood (ML) decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes over erasures. Our decoder combines classical inactivation decoding, which integrates peeling with symbolic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Giulio Pech , Mert Gökduman , Hanwen Yao , Henry D. Pfister

We introduce a quantum Maxwell erasure decoder for CSS quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes that extends peeling with bounded guessing. Guesses are tracked symbolically and can be eliminated by restrictive checks, giving a tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Bruno Costa Alves Freire , François-Marie Le Régent , Anthony Leverrier

Quantum error correction is the building block for constructing fault-tolerant quantum processors that can operate reliably even if its constituting elements are corrupted by decoherence. In this context, real-time decoding is a necessity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Antonio deMarti iOlius , Josu Etxezarreta Martinez

In this paper, we develop a new channel model, which we name the $q$-ary partial erasure channel (QPEC). The QPEC has a $q$-ary input, and its output is either the input symbol or a set of $M$ ($2 \le M \le q$) symbols, containing the input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Rami Cohen , Yuval Cassuto

This paper proposes a quasi-belief propagation decoder for BCH codes that systematically integrates domain knowledge--specifically, channel noise variance, the cyclic property of the codes, and the deliberate redundancy in their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Guangwen Li

Quantum error correction (QEC) for fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a balanced decoding solution that offers high performance, low complexity, and low latency. However, the de facto standard, belief propagation (BP) combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Hee-Youl Kwak , Seong-Joon Park , Hyunwoo Jung , Jeongseok Ha , Jae-Won Kim

Quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a promising family of quantum error-correcting codes for fault tolerant quantum computing with low overhead. Decoding quantum LDPC codes on quantum erasure channels has received more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Mert Gökduman , Hanwen Yao , Henry D. Pfister

Ensuring extremely high reliability in channel coding is essential for 6G networks. The next-generation of ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (xURLLC) scenario within 6G networks requires frame error rate (FER) below $10^{-9}$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Hee-Youl Kwak , Dae-Young Yun , Yongjune Kim , Sang-Hyo Kim , Jong-Seon No

We consider the problem of designing a low-complexity decoder for antipodal uniquely decodable (UD) /errorless code sets for overloaded synchronous code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems, where the number of signals Kamax is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Michel Kulhandjian , Claude D'Amours , Hovannes Kulhandjian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Dimitris A. Pados , Gurgen Khachatrian

When binary linear error-correcting codes are used over symmetric channels, a relaxed version of the maximum likelihood decoding problem can be stated as a linear program (LP). This LP decoder can be used to decode error-correcting codes at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Siddharth Barman , Xishuo Liu , Stark C. Draper , Benjamin Recht

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been successfully commercialized in communication systems due to their strong error correction capabilities and simple decoding process. However, the error-floor phenomenon of LDPC codes, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hee-Youl Kwak , Dae-Young Yun , Yongjune Kim , Sang-Hyo Kim , Jong-Seon No

In this paper, we propose a new class of quantized message-passing decoders for LDPC codes over the BSC. The messages take values (or levels) from a finite set. The update rules do not mimic belief propagation but instead are derived using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shiva Kumar Planjery , David Declercq , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Bane Vasić

We propose a quantized decoding algorithm for low- density parity-check codes where the variable node update rule of the standard min-sum algorithm is replaced with a look-up table (LUT) that is designed using an information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Michael Meidlinger , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg , Gerald Matz

In this paper, we propose a policy-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) decoder that achieves near maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD) performance for short block codes. The MCTS decoder searches for test error patterns (TEPs) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Y. Tian , C. Yue , P. Cheng , G. Pang , B. Vucetic , Y. Li

In this paper, we investigate symbol-level precoding (SLP) and efficient decoding techniques for downlink transmission, where we focus on scenarios where the base station (BS) transmits multiple QAM constellation streams to users equipped…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 X. Tong , A. Li , L. Lei , X. Hu , F. Dong , S. Chatzinotas , C. Masouros

This paper presents a hybrid decoding architecture that serially couples a normalized min-sum (NMS) decoder with reinforced ordered statistics decoding (OSD) to achieve near-maximum likelihood (ML) performance for short linear block codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu

Decoding Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes is a fundamental problem in coding theory, and Belief Propagation (BP) is one of the most popular methods for LDPC code decoding. However, BP may encounter convergence issues and suboptimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Krishnakanta Barik , Goutam Paul

In this paper, a nonparametric maximum likelihood (ML) estimator for band-limited (BL) probability density functions (pdfs) is proposed. The BLML estimator is consistent and computationally efficient. To compute the BLML estimator, three…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-30 Rahul Agarwal , Zhe Chen , Sridevi V. Sarma

More than Mbps secret key rate was demonstrated for continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) systems, but real-time postprocessing is not allowed, which is restricted by the throughput of the error correction decoding in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Chuang Zhou , Yang Li , Li Ma , Jie Yang , Wei Huang , Heng Wang , Yujie Luo , Francis C. M. Lau , Yong Li , Bingjie Xu

In this study, an optimization model for offline scheduling policy of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is proposed to improve the decoding efficiency of the belief propagation (BP). The optimization model uses the number of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Dongxu Chang , Zhiming Ma , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan , Dawei Yin