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We propose a modified iterative bounded distance decoding of product codes. The proposed algorithm is based on exchanging hard messages iteratively and exploiting channel reliabilities to make hard decisions at each iteration. Performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

High quality data is essential in deep learning to train a robust model. While in other fields data is sparse and costly to collect, in error decoding it is free to query and label thus allowing potential data exploitation. Utilizing this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ishay Be'ery , Nir Raviv , Tomer Raviv , Yair Be'ery

We propose a new algorithm for binary quantization based on the Belief Propagation algorithm with decimation over factor graphs of Low Density Generator Matrix (LDGM) codes. This algorithm, which we call Bias Propagation (BiP), can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-03 Tomas Filler , Jessica Fridrich

Belief propagation applied to iterative decoding and sparse recovery through approximate message passing (AMP) are two research areas that have seen monumental progress in recent decades. Inspired by these advances, this article introduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

The performance of short polar codes under successive cancellation (SC) and SC list (SCL) decoding is analyzed for the case where the decoder messages are coarsely quantized. This setting is of particular interest for applications requiring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Joachim Neu , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

An efficient decoder is essential for quantum error correction, and data-driven neural decoders have emerged as promising, flexible solutions. Here, we introduce a diffusion model framework to infer logical errors from syndrome measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Zejun Liu , Anqi Gong , Bryan K. Clark

Quantum error correction is an important ingredient for scalable quantum computing. Stabilizer codes are one of the most promising and straightforward ways to correct quantum errors, are convenient for logical operations, and improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Ilya. A. Simakov , Ilya. S. Besedin

Since its invention, polar code has received a lot of attention because of its capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

We study iterative blind symbol detection for block-fading linear inter-symbol interference channels. Based on the factor graph framework, we design a joint channel estimation and detection scheme that combines the expectation maximization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Luca Schmid , Tomer Raviv , Nir Shlezinger , Laurent Schmalen

Polar codes have promising error-correction capabilities. Yet, decoding polar codes is often challenging, particularly with large blocks, with recently proposed decoders based on list-decoding or neural-decoding. The former applies multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tomer Raviv , Alon Goldman , Ofek Vayner , Yair Be'ery , Nir Shlezinger

In previous work, we have shown that pseudocodewords can be used to characterize the behavior of decoders not only for classical codes but also for quantum stabilizer codes. With the insights obtained from this pseudocodewords-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 July X. Li , Joseph M. Renes , Pascal O. Vontobel

We consider decoding of binary Tanner codes using message-passing iterative decoding and linear programming (LP) decoding in MBIOS channels. We present new certificates that are based on a combinatorial characterization for local-optimality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Nissim Halabi , Guy Even

We present a novel decoding algorithm for q-ary low-density parity-check codes, termed symbol message passing. The proposed algorithm can be seen as a generalization of Gallager B and the binary message passing algorithm by Lechner et al.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Francisco Lázaro , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva , Balázs Matuz

We develop a simple and general post-selection strategy for high-rate quantum codes that is transferrable across decoders. After an initial baseline run, the decoder is re-run once per logical observable, and forced in these latter runs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Adam Wills , Theodore J. Yoder , Isaac Chuang

We construct an explicit quantum coding scheme which achieves a communication rate not less than the coherent information when used to transmit quantum information over a noisy quantum channel. For Pauli and erasure channels we also present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter , Frédéric Dupuis , Renato Renner

Algebraic codes such as BCH code are receiving renewed interest as their short block lengths and low/no error floors make them attractive for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) in 5G wireless networks. This paper aims at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Li Deng , Zilong Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Xiaobei Liu , Chaudhry Adnan Aslam , Xiaoxi Yu , Zhiping Shi

We illustrate the utility of the recently developed loop calculus for improving the Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm. If the algorithm that minimizes the Bethe free energy fails we modify the free energy by accounting for a critical loop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael Chertkov , Vladimir Y. Chernyak

In the short block length regime, ensemble decoding schemes with their inherently parallel structure can improve error correction performance and reduce latency compared to stand-alone suboptimal decoders such as belief propagation (BP). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Paul Bezner , Holger Jäkel , Stephan ten Brink , Laurent Schmalen

Constrained sequence codes have been widely used in modern communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy constraints imposed by the physical channel, hence enabling efficient and reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Congzhe Cao , Duanshun Li , Ivan Fair

Efficient and scalable decoding of quantum codes is essential for high-performance quantum error correction. In this work, we introduce Reliable Subset Reduction (RSR), a reliability-driven preprocessing framework that leverages belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Ching-Feng Kung , Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai