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The optimal coding scheme for communicating a Gaussian message over an Additive White Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with AWGN output feedback, with a limited number of transmissions is unknown. Even if we restrict the scope of the coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Rajesh Mishra , Deepanshu Vasal , Hyeji Kim

A new achievable rate for bit-metric decoding (BMD) is derived using random coding arguments. The rate expression can be evaluated for any input distribution, and in particular the bit-levels of binary input labels can be stochastically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Georg Böcherer

We study universal decoding over unknown discrete additive channels determined by a finite-state (unifilar) random process. Aiming at low-complexity decoders, we study variants of noise-guessing decoders that use estimators for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sheng Yang

Mixed linear regression (MLR) model is among the most exemplary statistical tools for modeling non-linear distributions using a mixture of linear models. When the additive noise in MLR model is Gaussian, Expectation-Maximization (EM)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-14 Babak Barazandeh , Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn , Ram Sriharsha

This paper investigates the problem of finding an optimal nonbinary index assignment from (M) quantization levels of a maximum entropy scalar quantizer to (M)-PSK symbols transmitted over a symmetric memoryless channel with additive noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yunxiang Yao , Wai Ho Mow

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding for arbitrary block codes remains fundamentally hard, with worst-case time complexity-measured by the total number of multiplications-being no better than straightforward exhaustive search, which requires…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Michael Schleppy

We introduce Variational Latent Mode Decomposition (VLMD), a new algorithm for extracting oscillatory modes and associated connectivity structures from multivariate signals. VLMD addresses key limitations of existing Multivariate Mode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Manuel Morante , Naveed ur Rehman

Low density lattice codes (LDLC) are novel lattice codes that can be decoded efficiently and approach the capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. In LDLC a codeword x is generated directly at the n-dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Naftali Sommer , Meir Feder , Ofir Shalvi

Accurate noise estimation is essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing, as decoding performance depends critically on the fidelity of the circuit-level noise parameters. In this work, we introduce a differentiable Maximum Likelihood…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Hanyan Cao , Dongyang Feng , Cheng Ye , Feng Pan

In this paper, soft-decision (SD) decoders of permutation trellis code (PTC) with $M$-ary frequency shift keying are designed using three optimization algorithms and presented in four decoding schemes. In a concatenated code such as PTC,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Oluwafemi Kolade , Mulundumina Shimaponda-Nawa , Daniel J. J. Versfeld , Ling Cheng

This paper addresses the prediction of error floors of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with variable nodes of constant degree in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Specifically, we focus on the performance of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Brian K. Butler , Paul H. Siegel

A complexity-adaptive tree search algorithm is proposed for $\boldsymbol{G}_N$-coset codes that implements maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding by using a successive decoding schedule. The average complexity is close to that of the successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Peihong Yuan , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun

We introduce a novel approach to error correction decoding in the presence of additive alpha-stable noise, which serves as a model of interference-limited wireless systems. In the absence of modifications to decoding algorithms, treating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

Non-data-aided (NDA) parameter estimation is considered for binary-phase-shift-keying transmission in an additive white Gaussian noise channel. Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLBs) for signal amplitude, noise variance, channel reliability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Fredrik Brannstrom , Lars K. Rasmussen

Estimating the frequencies of multiple sinusoids in the presence of AWGN and when the data record is short is commonly accomplished by subspace-based methods such as ESPRIT, MUSIC, Min-Norm, etc. These methods do not assume that the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 P. Vishnu , C. S. Ramalingam

In a recent paper [1] an improved analysis concerning the analysis of List Decoding was presented. The event that the correct codeword is excluded from the list is central. For the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel an important…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Tor M. Aulin

An additive noise channel is considered, in which the distribution of the noise is nonparametric and unknown. The problem of learning encoders and decoders based on noise samples is considered. For uncoded communication systems, the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Nir Weinberger

The construction of optimal non-uniform mappings for discrete input memoryless channels (DIMCs) is investigated. An efficient algorithm to find optimal mappings is proposed and the rate by which a target distribution is approached is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Georg Böcherer

In this paper, we are interested in the performance of a variable-length stop-feedback (VLSF) code with $m$ optimal decoding times for the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel. We first develop tight approximations on the tail…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Hengjie Yang , Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Richard D. Wesel

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding can be used to obtain the optimal performance of error correction codes. However, the size of the search space and consequently the decoding complexity grows exponentially, making it impractical to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan