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The code spectrum of polar codes is crucial to the performance of polar codes. Based on the lower-triangular affine group (LTA) of decreasing monomial codes and the one-variable descendance (ovd) relation, we define a new subgroup of LTA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhichao Liu , Zhiming Ma , Guiying Yan

In this paper, we derive the exact weight distributions that emerge during each stage of successive cancellation decoding of polar codes. Though we do not compute the distance spectrum of polar codes, the results allow us to get an estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Rina Polyanskaya , Mars Davletshin , Nikita Polyanskii

In this letter, we introduce an efficient method for estimating weight distributions of polar codes and polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes. Based on a recursive algorithm of computing the weight enumerating functions of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Junhua You , Shaohua Wu , Yajing Deng , Qinyu Zhang

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm based on the Parity-Consistent Decomposition (PCD) method to determine the WD of pre-transformed polar codes. First, to address the bit dependencies introduced by the pre-transformation matrix,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yang Liu , Bolin Wu , Yuxin Han , Kai Niu

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm to count the low-weight codewords of punctured and shortened pure and pre-transformed polar codes. The method first evaluates the weight properties of punctured/shortened polar cosets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Malek Ellouze , Romain Tajan , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jégo , Charly Poulliat

Polar codes form a very powerful family of codes with a low complexity decoding algorithm that attain many information theoretic limits in error correction and source coding. These codes are closely related to Reed-Muller codes because both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Magali Bardet , Vlad Dragoi , Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Polar codes can be viewed as decreasing monomial codes, revealing a rich algebraic structure governed by the lower-triangular affine (LTA) group. We develop a general framework to compute the Hamming weight of codewords generated by sums of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes combine the polar and convolutional transformations to enhance the distance properties of polar codes. They offer a performance very close to the finite length information-theoretic bounds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Sadra Seyedmasoumian , Tolga M. Duman

In this article, we provide a complete characterization of codewords in polar codes with weights less than twice the minimum distance, using the group action of the lower triangular affine (LTA) group. We derive a closed-form formula for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Vlad-Florin Dragoi , Mohammad Rowshan

In this article, we illustrate an algorithm for the computation of the weight distribution of CRC codes. The recursive structure of CRC codes will give us an iterative way to compute the weight distribution of their dual codes starting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Felice Manganiello

The number of low-weight codewords is critical to the performance of error-correcting codes. In 1970, Kasami and Tokura characterized the codewords of Reed-Muller (RM) codes whose weights are less than $2w_{\min}$, where $w_{\min}$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zicheng Ye , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

The weight distribution of error correction codes is a critical determinant of their error-correcting performance, making enumeration of utmost importance. In the case of polar codes, the minimum weight $\wm$ (which is equal to minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Drăgoi , Jinhong Yuan

This paper investigates universal polar coding schemes. In particular, a notion of ordering (called convolutional path) is introduced between probability distributions to determine when a polar compression (or communication) scheme designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Emmanuel Abbe

Polar codes are constructed based on the reliability of sub-channels resulting from the polarization effect. However, this information-theoretic construction approach leads to a poor weight distribution. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Determining the weight distribution of a linear code is a classical and fundamental topic in coding theory that has been extensively investigated. Repeated-root cyclic codes, which form a significant subclass of error-correcting codes, have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wei Zhao , Weixian Li , Shenghao Yang , Fang-Wei Fu , Kenneth W. Shum

A novel SC decoding method of polar codes is proposed in $d$-deletion channels, where a new pruning strategy is designed to reduce decoding complexity. Considering the difference of the scenario weight distributions, pruning thresholds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-22 He Sun , Rongke Liu , Bin Dai

The weight spectrum plays a crucial role in the performance of error-correcting codes. Despite substantial theoretical exploration of polar codes with mother code length, a framework for the weight spectrum of rate-compatible polar codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zicheng Ye , Yuan Li , Zhichao Liu , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

A reduced complexity sequential decoding algorithm for polar (sub)codes is described. The proposed approach relies on a decomposition of the polar (sub)code being decoded into a number of outer codes, and on-demand construction of codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Grigorii Trofimiuk , Nikolay Iakuba , Stanislav Rets , Kirill Ivanov , Peter Trifonov

In this paper, we propose an analysis of the automorphism group of polar codes, with the scope of designing codes tailored for automorphism ensemble (AE) decoding. We prove the equivalence between the notion of decreasing monomial codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land , Charles Pillet

A list decoding scheme for universal polar codes is presented. Our scheme applies to the universal polar codes first introduced by Sasoglu and Wang, and generalized to processes with memory by the authors. These codes are based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal
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