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This paper revisits the ordered statistics decoding (OSD). It provides a comprehensive analysis of the OSD algorithm by characterizing the statistical properties, evolution and the distribution of the Hamming distance and weighted Hamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Chentao Yue , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Reed Muller (RM) codes are known for their good minimum distance. One can use their structure to construct polar-like codes with good distance properties by choosing the information set as the rows of the polarization matrix with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Samet Gelincik , Philippe Mary , Anne Savard , Jean-Yves Baudais

Polar code lattices are formed from binary polar codes using Construction D. In this paper, we propose a design technique for finite-dimension polar code lattices. The dimension $n$ and target probability of decoding error are parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Obed Rhesa Ludwiniananda , Ning Liu , Khoirul Anwar , Brian M. Kurkoski

High-rate bivariate bicycle (BB) codes are promising low-overhead quantum memories, but their stabilizer checks typically have weight $6$ or higher, making syndrome extraction challenging. We introduce subsystem bivariate bicycle (SBB)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zijian Liang , Yu-An Chen

This paper studies low-complexity soft-output decoding of turbo product codes with extended Bose--Chaudhuri--Hocquenghem component codes. Recent soft-output from covered space (SOCS) decoding substantially improves the quality of extrinsic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Oleg Nesterenkov , Kirill Andreev , Alexey Frolov , Pavel Rybin

After a brief introduction to both quantum computation and quantum error correction, we show how to construct quantum error-correcting codes based on classical BCH codes. With these codes, decoding can exploit additional information about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-20 Markus Grassl , Willi Geiselmann , Thomas Beth

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

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes, and they have been selected as part of the next generation wireless communication standard. Each polar code bit-channel is assigned a reliability value, used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Carlo Condo , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

The square $C^{*2}$ of a linear error correcting code $C$ is the linear code spanned by the component-wise products of every pair of (non-necessarily distinct) words in $C$. Squares of codes have gained attention for several applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ignacio Cascudo

In this paper, we focus on the design of binary constant weight codes that admit low-complexity encoding and decoding algorithms, and that have a size $M=2^k$. For every integer $\ell \geq 3$, we construct a $(n=2^\ell, M=2^{k_{\ell}},…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Birenjith Sasidharan , Emanuele Viterbo , Son Hoang Dau

Minimum Bayes risk (MBR) decoding is a decision rule of text generation, which selects the hypothesis that maximizes the expected utility and robustly generates higher-quality texts than maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Masaaki Nagata

In this paper we explore the decision regions of Linear Programming (LP) decoding. We compare the decision regions of an LP decoder, a Belief Propagation (BP) decoder and the optimal Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoder. We study the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Asi Lifshitz , Yair Be'ery

In this paper, a technique for the Berlekamp-Massey(BM) algorithm is provided to reduce the latency of decoding and save decoding power by early termination or early-stopped checking. We investigate the consecutive zero discrepancies during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Hong-fu Chou

We consider probabilistic shaping to maximize the achievable information rate of coded modulation (CM) with hard decision decoding. The proposed scheme using binary staircase codes outperforms its uniform CM counterpart by more than 1.3 dB…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

Non-binary linear block codes (NB-LBCs) are an important class of error-correcting codes that are especially competent in correcting burst errors. They have broad applications in modern communications and storage systems. However, efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jingyu Lin , Li Chen , Xiaoqian Ye

Absolute coset leaders were first proposed by the authors which have advantages in constructing binary LCD BCH codes. As a continue work, in this paper we focus on ternary linear codes. Firstly, we find the largest, second largest, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Xinmei Huang , Qin Yue , Yansheng Wu , Xiaoping Shi

Neural decoders were introduced as a generalization of the classic Belief Propagation (BP) decoding algorithms, where the Trellis graph in the BP algorithm is viewed as a neural network, and the weights in the Trellis graph are optimized by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xiangyu Chen , Min Ye

In this paper, the performance of quadratic residue (QR) codes of lengths within 100 is given and analyzed when the hard decoding, soft decoding, and linear programming decoding algorithms are utilized. We develop a simple method to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Yong Li , Qianbin Chen , Hongqing Liu , Trieu-Kien Truong

This paper presents a simple approach to evaluate the performance bound at very low bit-error-rate (BER) range for binary pseudo-product codes and true-product codes. Moreover it introduces a super-product BCH code that can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Zhongfeng Wang

Chase-Pyndiah decoding is widely used for decoding product codes. However, this method is suboptimal and requires scaling the soft information exchanged during the iterative processing. In this paper, we propose a framework for obtaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Andreas Straßhofer , Diego Lentner , Gianluigi Liva , Alexandre Graell i Amat