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Error correction code is a major part of the communication physical layer, ensuring the reliable transfer of data over noisy channels. Recently, neural decoders were shown to outperform classical decoding techniques. However, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

Codes based on sparse matrices have good performance and can be efficiently decoded by belief-propagation (BP). Decoding binary stabilizer codes needs a quaternary BP for (additive) codes over GF(4), which has a higher check-node complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai

Determining the exact decoding error probability of linear block codes is an interesting problem. For binary BCH codes, McEliece derived methods to estimate the error probability of a simple bounded distance decoding (BDD) for BCH codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sisi Miao , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

The quality and quantity of data used for training greatly influence the performance and effectiveness of deep learning models. In the context of error correction, it is essential to generate high-quality samples that are neither…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hassan Noghrei , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Wai Ho Mow

A low-complexity soft-decision concatenated FEC scheme, consisting of an inner LDPC code and an outer staircase code is proposed. The inner code is tasked with reducing the bit error probability below the outer-code threshold. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Masoud Barakatain , Frank R. Kschischang

The long-haul communication systems can offer ultra high-speed data transfer rates but suffer from burst errors. The high-rate and high-performance staircase codes provide an efficient way for long-haul transmission. The staircase coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Bowen Feng , Jian Jiao , Liu Zhou , Shaohua Wu , Bin Cao , Qinyu Zhang

A new deep-neural-network (DNN) based error correction encoder architecture for channels with feedback, called Deep Extended Feedback (DEF), is presented in this paper. The encoder in the DEF architecture transmits an information message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Anahid Robert Safavi , Alberto G. Perotti , Branislav M. Popovic , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gunduz

Decoders that provide an estimate of the probability of a logical failure conditioned on the error syndrome ("soft-output decoders") can reduce the overhead cost of fault-tolerant quantum memory and computation. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Nadine Meister , Christopher A. Pattison , John Preskill

A new approach for blind channel equalization and decoding, variational inference, and variational autoencoders (VAEs) in particular, is introduced. We first consider the reconstruction of uncoded data symbols transmitted over a noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Avi Caciularu , David Burshtein

While linear programming (LP) decoding provides more flexibility for finite-length performance analysis than iterative message-passing (IMP) decoding, it is computationally more complex to implement in its original form, due to both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-05 Mohammad H. Taghavi , Amin Shokrollahi , Paul H. Siegel

Interactive encoding and decoding based on binary low-density parity-check codes with syndrome accumulation (SA-LDPC-IED) is proposed and investigated. Assume that the source alphabet is $\mathbf{GF}(2)$, and the side information alphabet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Jin Meng , En-Hui Yang

Erasures are the primary type of errors in physical systems dominated by leakage errors. While quantum error correction (QEC) using stabilizer codes can combat erasure errors, it remains unknown which constructions achieve capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Yingkai Ouyang

Iterative decoding is essential in modern communication systems, especially optical communications, where error-correcting codes such as turbo product codes (TPC) and staircase codes are widely employed. A key factor in achieving high error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Dmitry Artemasov , Oleg Nesterenkov , Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

We present the tree-structure expectation propagation (Tree-EP) algorithm to decode low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over discrete memoryless channels (DMCs). EP generalizes belief propagation (BP) in two ways. First, it can be used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Pablo M. Olmos , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Fernando Pérez-Cruz

Belief propagation applied to iterative decoding and sparse recovery through approximate message passing (AMP) are two research areas that have seen monumental progress in recent decades. Inspired by these advances, this article introduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

Error-correcting codes enable reliable communication, yet practical soft decoding remains challenging across code families and block lengths. We propose SB-ECC, a score-based decoder that casts decoding as continuous-time denoising. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alon Helvits , Eliya Nachmani

We consider hard-decision iterative decoders for product codes over the erasure channel, which employ repeated rounds of decoding rows and columns alternatingly. We derive the exact asymptotic probability of decoding failure as a function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Moshe Schwartz , Paul H. Siegel , Alexander Vardy

We consider a broadcast channel with a degraded message set, in which a single transmitter sends a common message to two receivers and a private message to one of the receivers only. The main goal of this work is to find new lower bounds to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Yonatan Kaspi , Neri Merhav

Early Exit (EE) techniques have emerged as a means to reduce inference latency in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The latency improvement and accuracy in these techniques crucially depend on the criteria used to make exit decisions. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Existing works are dedicated to untangling atomized numerical components (features) from the hidden states of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, they typically rely on autoencoders constrained by some training-time regularization on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hakaze Cho , Haolin Yang , Yanshu Li , Brian M. Kurkoski , Naoya Inoue