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Flash memory devices are winning the competition for storage density against magnetic recording devices. This outcome results from advances in physics that allow storage of more than one bit per cell, coupled with advances in signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ahmed Hareedy , Beyza Dabak , Robert Calderbank

Motivated by distributed storage applications, we investigate the degree to which capacity achieving encodings can be efficiently updated when a single information bit changes, and the degree to which such encodings can be efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Arya Mazumdar , Venkat Chandar , Gregory W. Wornell

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory comprised of blocks of cells, wherein each cell can take on q different values or levels. While increasing the cell level is easy, reducing the level of a cell can be accomplished only by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-12 Hessam Mahdavifar , Paul H. Siegel , Alexander Vardy , Jack K. Wolf , Eitan Yaakobi

In the framework of write-once memory (WOM) codes, it is important to distinguish between codes that can be decoded directly and those that require that the decoder knows the current generation to successfully decode the state of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Nicolas Bitouzé , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

Data centres that use consumer-grade disks drives and distributed peer-to-peer systems are unreliable environments to archive data without enough redundancy. Most redundancy schemes are not completely effective for providing high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vero Estrada-Galiñanes , Ethan Miller , Pascal Felber , Jehan-François Pâris

With the end of Moore's Law, optimizing code for performance has become paramount for meeting ever-increasing compute demands, particularly in hyperscale data centers where even small efficiency gains translate to significant resource and…

We study error-correcting codes for permutations under the infinity norm, motivated by a novel storage scheme for flash memories call rank modulation. In this scheme, a set of $n$ flash cells are combined to create a single virtual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-02 Itzhak Tamo , Moshe Schwartz

We consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Forming accurate memory of sequential stimuli is a fundamental function of biological agents. However, the computational mechanism underlying sequential memory in the brain remains unclear. Inspired by neuroscience theories and recent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-27 Mufeng Tang , Helen Barron , Rafal Bogacz

The pivotal storage density win achieved by solid-state devices over magnetic devices recently is a result of multiple innovations in physics, architecture, and signal processing. Constrained coding is used in Flash devices to increase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Ahmed Hareedy , Simeng Zheng , Paul Siegel , Robert Calderbank

Most efforts to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) involve either scaling the number of parameters and the size of training data, or scaling inference computation by letting models generate complex chains of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yeskendir Koishekenov , Aldo Lipani , Nicola Cancedda

Most Large Language Model (LLM) agent memory systems rely on a small set of static, hand-designed operations for extracting memory. These fixed procedures hard-code human priors about what to store and how to revise memory, making them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haozhen Zhang , Quanyu Long , Jianzhu Bao , Tao Feng , Weizhi Zhang , Haodong Yue , Wenya Wang

In recent years, due to the spread of multi-level non-volatile memories (NVM), $q$-ary write-once memories (WOM) codes have been extensively studied. By using WOM codes, it is possible to rewrite NVMs $t$ times before erasing the cells. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Evyatar Hemo , Yuval Cassuto

This paper constructs WOM codes that combine rewriting and error correction for mitigating the reliability and the endurance problems in flash memory. We consider a rewriting model that is of practical interest to flash applications where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Eyal En Gad , Wentao Huang , Yue Li , Jehoshua Bruck

As dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and other current transistor-based memories approach their scalability limits, the search for alternative storage methods becomes increasingly urgent. Phase-change memory (PCM) emerges as a promising…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mahek Desai , Rowena Quinn , Marjan Asadinia

Flash memory is a write-once medium in which reprogramming cells requires first erasing the block that contains them. The lifetime of the flash is a function of the number of block erasures and can be as small as several thousands. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Eitan Yaakobi , Alexander Yucovich , Gal Maor , Gala Yadgar

This paper considers the memoryless input-constrained binary erasure channel (BEC). The channel input constraint is the $(d,\infty)$-runlength limited (RLL) constraint, which mandates that any pair of successive $1$s in the input sequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

Electrochemical random-access memory (ECRAM) is a recently developed and highly promising analog resistive memory element for in-memory computing. One longstanding challenge of ECRAM is attaining retention time beyond a few hours. This…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Diana Kim , Virgil Watkins , Laszlo Cline , Jingxian Li , Kai Sun , Joshua D. Sugar , Elliot J. Fuller , A. Alec Talin , Yiyang Li

We introduce a class of bosonic quantum error-correcting codes, termed \emph{extended binomial codes}, which generalize the structure of one-mode binomial codes by incorporating ideas from high-rate qubit stabilizer codes. These codes are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 En-Jui Chang

Large Language Models for Code (code LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various software engineering (SE) tasks, increasing the application of code LLMs in software development. Despite the success of code LLMs, there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Thu-Trang Nguyen , Thanh Trong Vu , Hieu Dinh Vo , Son Nguyen