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Some new results are derived concerning random coding error exponents and expurgated exponents for list decoding with a deterministic list size $L$. Two asymptotic regimes are considered, the fixed list-size regime, where $L$ is fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

In this paper, we study the problem of relaying a single bit over a tandem of binary-input channels, with the goal of attaining the highest possible error exponent in the exponentially decaying error probability. Our previous work gave an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

Braided convolutional codes (BCCs) are a class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs) with excellent belief propagation (BP) thresholds. In this paper, we analyze the performance of BCCs in the finite block-length regime. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier , Alexandre Graell i Amat

This paper shows that the probability that the error exponent of a given code randomly generated from a pairwise independent ensemble being smaller than a lower bound on the typical random-coding exponent tends to zero as the codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Giuseppe Cocco , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas , Josep Font-Segura

We derive upper and lower bounds for the error exponents of lossless streaming compression of two correlated sources under the blockwise and symbolwise settings. We consider the linear scaling regime in which the delay is a scalar multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Lin Zhou , Vincent Yan Fu Tan , Mehul Motani

In this paper q-ary Raptor codes under ML decoding are considered. An upper bound on the probability of decoding failure is derived using the weight enumerator of the outer code, or its expected weight enumerator if the outer code is drawn…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Francisco Lázaro , Gianluigi Liva , Enrico Paolini , Gerhard Bauch

In this work, we derive the random coding error exponent for the uplink phase of a two-way relay system where physical layer network coding (PNC) is employed. The error exponent is derived for the practical (yet sub-optimum) XOR channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Shakeel Salamat Ullah , Gianluigi Liva , Soung Chang Liew

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

The ubiquitous time-delay estimation (TDE) problem becomes nontrivial when sensors are non-co-located and communication between them is limited. Building on the recently proposed "extremum encoding" compression-estimation scheme, we address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Amir Weiss , Yuval Kochman , Gregory W. Wornell

Transformer channel decoders, such as the Error Correction Code Transformer (ECCT), have shown strong empirical performance in channel decoding, yet their generalization behavior remains theoretically unclear. This paper studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Qinshan Zhang , Bin Chen , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

This paper studies the concentration properties of random codes. Specifically, we show that, for discrete memoryless channels, the error exponent of a randomly generated code with pairwise-independent codewords converges in probability to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Lan V. Truong , Giuseppe Cocco , Josep Font-Segura , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

The problem of error correction in both coherent and noncoherent network coding is considered under an adversarial model. For coherent network coding, where knowledge of the network topology and network code is assumed at the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

We study the information bottleneck (IB) source coding problem, also known as remote lossy source coding under logarithmic loss. Based on a rate-limited description of noisy observations, the receiver produces a soft estimate for the remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

In this paper, we study sliding window decoding of braided convolutional codes (BCCs) in the context of a streaming application, where decoder error propagation can be a serious problem. A window extension algorithm and a resynchronization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello, , Baoming Bai

Quantum error correction requires decoders that are both accurate and efficient. To this end, union-find decoding has emerged as a promising candidate for error correction on the surface code. In this work, we benchmark a weighted variant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Shilin Huang , Michael Newman , Kenneth R. Brown

Capacity formulas and random-coding exponents are derived for a generalized family of Gel'fand-Pinsker coding problems. These exponents yield asymptotic upper bounds on the achievable log probability of error. In our model, information is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Pierre Moulin , Ying Wang

Interleaved Reed-Solomon codes admit efficient decoding algorithms which correct burst errors far beyond half the minimum distance in the random errors regime, e.g., by computing a common solution to the Key Equation for each Reed-Solomon…

The problem of blind identification of channel codes at a receiver involves identifying a code chosen by a transmitter from a known code-family, by observing the transmitted codewords through the channel. Most existing approaches for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Pramod Singh , Prasad Krishnan , Arti Yardi

We consider a point-to-point communication system, where in addition to the encoder and the decoder, there is a helper that observes non-causally the realization of the noise vector and provides a (lossy) rate-$R_{\mbox{\tiny h}}$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Neri Merhav

Error-correcting codes enable reliable communication, yet practical soft decoding remains challenging across code families and block lengths. We propose SB-ECC, a score-based decoder that casts decoding as continuous-time denoising. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alon Helvits , Eliya Nachmani