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Providing closed-form estimates of the decoding failure rate of iterative decoders for low- and moderate-density binary parity-check codes has attracted significant interest in the research community. Recently, interest in this topic has…

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Polar codes attract more and more attention of researchers in recent years, since its capacity achieving property. However, their error-correction performance under successive cancellation (SC) decoding is inferior to other modern channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-11 Yu Wang , Lirui Chen , Qinglin Wang , Yang Zhang , Zuocheng Xing

We study the problem of joint optimization involving coding and control policies for a controlled Markovian sytem over a finite-rate noiseless communication channel. While structural results on the optimal encoding and control have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Evelyn Hubbard , Liam Cregg , Serdar Yüksel

We propose a learned-structured unfolding neural network for the problem of compressive sparse multichannel blind-deconvolution. In this problem, each channel's measurements are given as convolution of a common source signal and sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Bahareh Tolooshams , Satish Mulleti , Demba Ba , Yonina C. Eldar

Designing a practical, low complexity, close to optimal, channel decoder for powerful algebraic codes with short to moderate block length is an open research problem. Recently it has been shown that a feed-forward neural network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Eliya Nachmani , Elad Marciano , David Burshtein , Yair Be'ery

We consider binary systematic network codes and investigate their capability of decoding a source message either in full or in part. We carry out a probability analysis, derive closed-form expressions for the decoding probability and show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Andrew L. Jones , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Andrea Tassi

The medium-density parity-check (MDPC) code-based Bit Flipping Key Encapsulation (BIKE) mechanism remains a candidate of post-quantum cryptography standardization. The latest version utilizes a new bit-flipping (BF) decoding algorithm,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiaxuan Cai , Xinmiao Zhang

In this paper, we develop a new decoding algorithm of a binary linear codes for symbol-pair read channels. Symbol-pair read channel has recently been introduced by Cassuto and Blaum to model channels with high write resolution but low read…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Shunsuke Horii , Toshiyasu Matsushima , Shigeichi Hirasawa

Despite rapid advances in machine learning tools, the majority of neural decoding approaches still use traditional methods. Modern machine learning tools, which are versatile and easy to use, have the potential to significantly improve…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-06 Joshua I. Glaser , Ari S. Benjamin , Raeed H. Chowdhury , Matthew G. Perich , Lee E. Miller , Konrad P. Kording

Many decision-making problems in engineering applications such as transportation, power system and operations research require repeatedly solving large-scale linear programming problems with a large number of different inputs. For example,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Yize Chen , Baosen Zhang

In the classical lossy source coding problem, one encodes long blocks of source symbols that enables the distortion to approach the ultimate Shannon limit. Such a block-coding approach introduces large delays, which is undesirable in many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Liam Cregg , Tamas Linder , Serdar Yuksel

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

Decoder diversity is a powerful error correction framework in which a collection of decoders collaboratively correct a set of error patterns otherwise uncorrectable by any individual decoder. In this paper, we propose a new approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Xin Xiao , Nithin Raveendran , Bane Vasic , Shu Lin , Ravi Tandon

Modern data-driven machine learning system designs exploit inductive biases in architectural structure, invariance and equivariance requirements, task-specific loss functions, and computational optimization tools. Previous works have…

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In reinforcement learning, agents often learn policies for specific tasks without the ability to generalize this knowledge to related tasks. This paper introduces an algorithm that attempts to address this limitation by decomposing neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mahdi Alikhasi , Levi H. S. Lelis

Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes has been adopted for 5G. However, the performance is not very satisfactory with moderate code length. Heuristic or deep-learning-aided (DL-aided) flip algorithms have been developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yaoyu Tao , Zhengya Zhang

Polar codes are widely used in modern communication systems due to their capacity-achieving properties. This paper investigates the importance of coded bits in the decoding process of polar codes and aims to determine which bits contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hossam Hassan , Ali Gaber , Mohammed Karmoose , Noha Korany

In this paper, we deal with the problem of jointly determining the optimal coding strategy and the scheduling decisions when receivers obtain layered data from multiple servers. The layered data is encoded by means of Prioritized Random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nikolaos Thomos , Eymen Kurdoglu , Pascal Frossard , Mihaela Van der Schaar

In this paper, we consider quantized decoding of LDPC codes on the binary symmetric channel. The binary message passing algorithms, while allowing extremely fast hardware implementation, are not very attractive from the perspective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lucile Sassatelli , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Bane Vasic , David Declercq

Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for encoding data, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Michael O'Sullivan , Diego Ruano