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Top-$k$ decoding is a widely used method for sampling from LLMs: at each token, only the largest $k$ next-token-probabilities are kept, and the next token is sampled after re-normalizing them to sum to unity. Top-$k$ and other sampling…

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A coding scheme for transmission of a bit maps a given bit to a sequence of channel inputs (called the codeword associated to the transmitted bit). In this paper, we study the problem of designing the best code for a discrete Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari

We consider coding schemes for computationally bounded channels, which can introduce an arbitrary set of errors as long as (a) the fraction of errors is bounded with high probability by a parameter $p$ and (b) the process which adds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and practice involves performing source coding to first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nariman Farsad , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

The performance of maximum-likelihood (ML) decoded binary linear block codes is addressed via the derivation of tightened upper bounds on their decoding error probability. The upper bounds on the block and bit error probabilities are valid…

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Raptor codes have been widely used in many multimedia broadcast/multicast applications. However, our understanding of Raptor codes is still incomplete due to the insufficient amount of theoretical work on the performance analysis of Raptor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Peng Wang , Guoqiang Mao , Zihuai Lin , Ming Ding , Weifa Liang , Xiaohu Ge , Zhiyun Lin

We develop upper bounds on code size for an independent and identically distributed deletion and insertion channels for a given code length and target frame error probability. The bounds are obtained as a variation of a general converse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruslan Morozov , Tolga Mete Duman

Using tools developed in a recent work by Shen and the second author, in this paper we carry out an in-depth study on the average decoding error probability of the random matrix ensemble over the erasure channel under three decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Chin Hei Chan , Fang-Wei Fu , Maosheng Xiong

The most common decision criteria for decoding are maximum likelihood decoding and nearest neighbor decoding. It is well-known that maximum likelihood decoding coincides with nearest neighbor decoding with respect to the Hamming metric on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Marcelo Firer , Judy L. Walker

Exponential error bounds for the finite-alphabet interference channel (IFC) with two transmitter-receiver pairs, are investigated under the random coding regime. Our focus is on optimum decoding, as opposed to heuristic decoding rules that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-14 Raul Etkin , Neri Merhav , Erik Ordentlich

Since the classical work of Berlekamp, McEliece and van Tilborg, it is well known that the problem of exact maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of general linear codes is NP-hard. In this paper, we show that exact ML decoding of a classs of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiyu Xu , Babak Hassibi

In this paper, we consider the outer channel for DNA-based data storage. When transmitting over the outer channel, each DNA string is treated as a unit/symbol that would be either correctly received, or erased, or corrupted by uniformly…

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Memoryless channels with deletion errors as defined by a stochastic channel matrix allowing for bit drop outs are considered in which transmitted bits are either independently deleted with probability $d$ or unchanged with probability…

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We study the channel coding problem when errors and uncertainty occur in the encoding process. For simplicity we assume the channel between the encoder and the decoder is perfect. Focusing on linear block codes, we model the encoding…

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We consider binary input deletion/substitution channels, which model certain types of synchronization errors encountered in practice. Specifically, we focus on the regime of small deletion and substitution probabilities, and by extending an…

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In the literature there exists analytical expressions for the probability of a receiver decoding a transmitted source message that has been encoded using random linear network coding. In this work, we look into the probability that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jessica Claridge , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

In the paper, the Levenshtein's sequence reconstruction problem is considered in the case where at most $t$ substitution errors occur in each of the $N$ channels and the decoder outputs a list of length $\mathcal{L}$. Moreover, it is…

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We introduce the concept of an \ff-maximal error-detecting block code, for some parameter \ff{} between 0 and 1, in order to formalize the situation where a block code is close to maximal with respect to being error-detecting. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Stavros Konstantinidis , Nelma Moreira , Rogerio Reis

Surface codes are among the best candidates to ensure the fault-tolerance of a quantum computer. In order to avoid the accumulation of errors during a computation, it is crucial to have at our disposal a fast decoding algorithm to quickly…

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