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In this paper, we propose a policy-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) decoder that achieves near maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD) performance for short block codes. The MCTS decoder searches for test error patterns (TEPs) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Y. Tian , C. Yue , P. Cheng , G. Pang , B. Vucetic , Y. Li

We propose a convolutional recurrent sparse auto-encoder model. The model consists of a sparse encoder, which is a convolutional extension of the learned ISTA (LISTA) method, and a linear convolutional decoder. Our strategy offers a simple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Hillel Sreter , Raja Giryes

A locally decodable code (LDC) C:{0,1}^k -> {0,1}^n is an error correcting code wherein individual bits of the message can be recovered by only querying a few bits of a noisy codeword. LDCs found a myriad of applications both in theory and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Tom Gur , Oded Lachish

Polar codes, as the first provable capacity-achieving error-correcting codes, have received much attention in recent years. However, the decoding performance of polar codes with traditional successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm cannot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

Most memories suffer from both permanent defects and intermittent random errors. The partitioned linear block codes (PLBC) were proposed by Heegard to efficiently mask stuck-at defects and correct random errors. The PLBC have two separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Yongjune Kim , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

We present a theory of quantum serial turbo-codes, describe their iterative decoding algorithm, and study their performances numerically on a depolarization channel. Our construction offers several advantages over quantum LDPC codes. First,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 David Poulin , Jean-Pierre Tillich , Harold Ollivier

Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) demand decoding algorithms that simultaneously offer high reliability and low complexity under stringent latency constraints. While iterative decoding schemes for LDPC and Polar codes offer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Enrico Testi , Enrico Paolini

We consider sparse superposition codes (SPARCs) over complex AWGN channels. Such codes can be efficiently decoded by an approximate message passing (AMP) decoder, whose performance can be predicted via so-called state evolution in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Haiwen Cao , Pascal O. Vontobel

We study the amount of reliable information that can be stored in a DNA-based storage system with noisy sequencing, where each codeword is composed of short DNA molecules. We analyze a concatenated coding scheme, where the outer code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ran Tamir , Nir Weinberger , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

This paper investigates the decoding process of asynchronous convolutional-coded physical-layer network coding (PNC) systems. Specifically, we put forth a layered decoding framework for convolutional-coded PNC consisting of three layers:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Qing Yang , Soung Chang Liew

When the amount of entanglement in a quantum system is limited, the relevant dynamics of the system is restricted to a very small part of the state space. When restricted to this subspace the description of the system becomes efficient in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Tamascelli , R. Rosenbach , M. B. Plenio

Sparse random linear network coding (SRLNC) is an attractive technique proposed in the literature to reduce the decoding complexity of random linear network coding. Recognizing the fact that the existing SRLNC schemes are not efficient in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Raman Yazdani , Masoud Ardakani

In a digital communication system, information is sent from one place to another over a noisy communication channel. It may be possible to detect and correct errors that occur during the transmission if one encodes the original information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Banu Kabakulak , Z. Caner Taşkın , Ali Emre Pusane

Due to their capacity-achieving property, polar codes have become one of the most attractive channel codes. To date, the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is the primary approach that can guarantee outstanding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

The forthcoming Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard adopts the trellis-coded quantization, which leverages the delicate trellis graph to map the quantization candidates within one block into the optimal path. Despite the high compression…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meng Wang , Shiqi Wang , Junru Li , Li Zhang , Yue Wang , Siwei Ma , Sam Kwong

Locally decodable channel codes form a special class of error-correcting codes with the property that the decoder is able to reconstruct any bit of the input message from querying only a few bits of a noisy codeword. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Shao-Lun Huang , Muriel Medard , Yury Polyanskiy

Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods and their variants have been widely used in coping with large-scale nonconstrained optimization problems in many fields such as imaging processing, machine learning, compress sensing and so on. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao

Error correction at short blocklengths remains a challenge for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, as belief propagation (BP) decoding is suboptimal compared to maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD). While BP rarely makes errors, it often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ahmad Ismail , Raphaël Le Bidan , Elsa Dupraz , Charbel Abdel Nour

This survey explores modern approaches for computing low-rank approximations of high-dimensional matrices by means of the randomized SVD, randomized subspace iteration, and randomized block Krylov iteration. The paper compares the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber