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We consider transmission over a binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel using low-density parity-check codes. One of the most popular techniques for decoding low-density parity-check codes is the linear programming decoder. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Shrinivas Kudekar , Jason K. Johnson , Misha Chertkov

Window decoding, first proposed to reduce decoding complexity for real-time decoding, is an essential component to realize scalable, universal-fault tolerant computation. Prior work has focused on improving throughput through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Tina Oberoi , Joshua Viszlai , Frederic T. Chong

Binary message-passing decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are studied by using extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. The channel delivers hard or soft decisions and the variable node decoder performs all computations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gottfried Lechner , Troels Pedersen , Gerhard Kramer

In the standard polar code construction, the message vector $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{n-1})$ is divided into information bits and frozen bits according to the reliability of each $U_i$ given $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{i-1})$ and all the channel outputs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Guodong Li , Min Ye , Sihuang Hu

This paper addresses the problem of designing LDPC decoders robust to transient errors introduced by a faulty hardware. We assume that the faulty hardware introduces errors during the message passing updates and we propose a general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Elsa Dupraz , David Declercq , Bane Vasic , Valentin Savin

Most of today's communication systems are designed to target reliable message recovery after receiving the entire encoded message (codeword). However, in many practical scenarios, the transmission process may be interrupted before receiving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Finding efficient decoders for quantum error correcting codes adapted to realistic experimental noise in fault-tolerant devices represents a significant challenge. In this paper we introduce several decoding algorithms complemented by deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Christopher Chamberland , Pooya Ronagh

Proponents of software verification have argued that simpler code is easier to verify: that is, that verification tools issue fewer false positives and require less human intervention when analyzing simpler code. We empirically validate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Kobi Feldman , Martin Kellogg , Oscar Chaparro

This paper describes the design and development of a preliminary qualitative coding tool as well as a method to improve the process of achieving inter-coder reliability (ICR) in small teams. Software applications that support qualitative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Abbas Ganji , Mania Orand , David W. McDonald

The surface code is one of the most promising candidates for combating errors in large scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. A fault-tolerant decoder is a vital part of the error correction process---it is the algorithm which computes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Fern H. E. Watson , Hussain Anwar , Dan E. Browne

In this work we study the single-shot performance of higher dimensional hypergraph product codes decoded using belief-propagation and ordered-statistics decoding [Panteleev and Kalachev, 2021]. We find that decoding data qubit and syndrome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Oscar Higgott , Nikolas P. Breuckmann

Fault-tolerant quantum computers use decoders to monitor for errors and find a plausible correction. A decoder may provide a decoder confidence score (DCS) to gauge its success. We adopt a swim distance DCS, computed from the shortest path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Maria Dincă , Tim Chan , Simon C. Benjamin

For the additive white Gaussian noise channel with average codeword power constraint, sparse superposition codes are developed. These codes are based on the statistical high-dimensional regression framework. The paper [IEEE Trans. Inform.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Antony Joseph , Andrew Barron

In this work, we develop a reduced complexity maximum likelihood (ML) decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes over erasures. Our decoder combines classical inactivation decoding, which integrates peeling with symbolic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Giulio Pech , Mert Gökduman , Hanwen Yao , Henry D. Pfister

Implicit feedback, such as user clicks, serves as the primary data source for modern recommender systems. However, click interactions inherently contain substantial noise, including accidental clicks, clickbait-induced interactions, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xikai Yang , Yang Wang , Yilin Li , Sebastian Sun

Extracting and analyzing iris textures for biometric recognition has been extensively studied. As the transition of iris recognition from lab technology to nation-scale applications, most systems are facing high complexity in either time or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Longyu Ma , Chiu-Wing Sham , Chun Yan Lo , Xinchao Zhong

In this work, we present an adaptive reliability-driven conditional innovation (AR-CID) decoding algorithm for low-density parity check (LDPC) codes. The proposed AR-CID decoding algorithm consists of one stage of message quality checking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hassan Touati , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

We propose a scalable decoding framework for correcting correlated hook errors in stabilizer measurement circuits. Traditional circuit-level decoding attempts to estimate the precise location of faults by constructing an extended Tanner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Michele Pacenti , Asit K. Pradhan , Shantom K. Borah , Bane Vasic

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

Quantum error correction (QEC) is often implemented on hardware that experiences biased noise, where dephasing errors occur more frequently than other errors. This has motivated many recent efforts to develop bias-tailored QEC codes, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Arianna Meinking , Julie Campos , Kenneth R. Brown