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In wireless communication systems, the use of multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver is a widely known method for improving both reliability and data rates, as it increases the former through transmit or receive diversity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Fathurrahman Hilman , Jong-Hyen Baek , Eun-Kyung Chae , KyungchunLee

A critical component of a successful language generation pipeline is the decoding algorithm. However, the general principles that should guide the choice of a decoding algorithm remain unclear. Previous works only compare decoding…

A coding scheme for transmission of a bit maps a given bit to a sequence of channel inputs (called the codeword associated to the transmitted bit). In this paper, we study the problem of designing the best code for a discrete Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari

DNA, with remarkable properties of high density, durability, and replicability, is one of the most appealing storage media. Emerging DNA storage technologies use composite DNA letters, where information is represented by probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wenkai Zhang , Zhiying Wang

A fundamental characteristic of natural language is the high rate at which speakers produce novel expressions. Because of this novelty, a heavy-tail of rare events accounts for a significant amount of the total probability mass of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Benjamin LeBrun , Alessandro Sordoni , Timothy J. O'Donnell

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

Erasures are the primary type of errors in physical systems dominated by leakage errors. While quantum error correction (QEC) using stabilizer codes can combat erasure errors, it remains unknown which constructions achieve capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Yingkai Ouyang

In Neural Machine Translation, it is typically assumed that the sentence with the highest estimated probability should also be the translation with the highest quality as measured by humans. In this work, we question this assumption and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Markus Freitag , David Grangier , Qijun Tan , Bowen Liang

Maximum Likelihood (ML) algorithms, for the joint estimation of synchronization impairments and channel in Multiple Input Multiple Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system, are investigated in this work. A system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Renu Jose , K. V. S. Hari

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

Recent studies have shown that retransmissions can cause heavy-tailed transmission delays even when packet sizes are light-tailed. Moreover, the impact of heavy-tailed delays persists even when packets size are upper bounded. The key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Yang Yang , Jian Tan , Ness B. Shroff , Hesham El-Gamal

Recent works showed how low-density parity-check (LDPC) erasure correcting codes, under maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, are capable of tightly approaching the performance of an ideal maximum-distance-separable code on the binary erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-21 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Michela Varrella , Balazs Matuz , Marco Chiani

Number prediction stands as a fundamental capability of large language models (LLMs) in mathematical problem-solving and code generation. The widely adopted maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) for LLM training is not tailored to number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhaohui Zheng , Chenhang He , Shihao Wang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Lei Zhang

LLM text decoding is key component for perceived LLM quality. We demonstrate two experiments showing that decoding methods could be improved by manipulation of token probabilities. First, we test few LLM on SummEval summary scoring dataset,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Krystian Zawistowski

When information is to be transmitted over an unknown, possibly unreliable channel, an erasure option at the decoder is desirable. Using constant-composition random codes, we propose a generalization of Csiszar and Korner's Maximum Mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Moulin

We consider communication over memoryless channels using low-density parity-check code ensembles above the iterative (belief propagation) threshold. What is the computational complexity of decoding (i.e., of reconstructing all the typical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Cyril Measson , Andrea Montanari , Tom Richardson , Rudiger Urbanke

This work proves new results on the ability of binary Reed-Muller codes to decode from random errors and erasures. We obtain these results by proving improved bounds on the weight distribution of Reed-Muller codes of high degrees.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ori Sberlo , Amir Shpilka

We study the rate of decay of the probability of error for distinguishing between a sparse signal with noise, modeled as a sparse mixture, from pure noise. This problem has many applications in signal processing, evolutionary biology,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Jonathan G. Ligo , George V. Moustakides , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

In this paper, the linear programming (LP) decoder for binary linear codes, introduced by Feldman, et al. is extended to joint-decoding of binary-input finite-state channels. In particular, we provide a rigorous definition of LP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Byung-Hak Kim , Henry D. Pfister

We study near optimal error correction codes for real-time communication. In our setup the encoder must operate on an incoming source stream in a sequential manner, and the decoder must reconstruct each source packet within a fixed playback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos