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Permutation decoding gained recent interest as it can exploit the symmetries of a code in a parallel fashion. Moreover, it has been shown that by viewing permuted polar codes as polar subcodes, the set of usable permutations in permutation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Marvin Geiselhart , Ahmed Elkelesh , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

The recently introduced recursive projection aggregation (RPA) decoding method for Reed-Muller (RM) codes can achieve near-maximum likelihood (ML) decoding performance. However, its high computational complexity makes its implementation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari , Kees Goossens , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming

In this paper, we discuss pre-transformed RM-Polar codes and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) concatenated pre-transformed RM-Polar codes. The simulation results show that the pre-transformed RM-Polar (256, 128+9) code concatenated with 9-bit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Bin Li , Jiaqi Gu , Huazi Zhang

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

Motivated by the need to communicate short control messages in 5G and beyond, this paper carefully designs codes for cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided list decoding of tail-biting convolutional codes (TBCCs) and polar codes. Both codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jacob King , Hanwen Yao , William Ryan , Richard D. Wesel

A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity $I(W)$ of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) $W$. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erdal Arikan

Over the past years, Polar codes have arisen as a highly effective class of linear codes, equipped with a decoding algorithm of low computational complexity. This family of codes share a common algebraic formalism with the well-known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Jicheng Ma , Guiying Yan

Polar codes are an exciting new class of error correcting codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels. Many decoding algorithms were developed and implemented, addressing various application requirements: from…

This brief proposes a hardware implementation architecture for Fano decoding of polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes. This architecture uses a novel branch metric unit specific to PAC codes. The proposed decoder is tested on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Amir Mozammel

Reed-Muller (RM) codes are known for their good maximum likelihood (ML) performance in the short block-length regime. Despite being one of the oldest classes of channel codes, finding a low complexity soft-input decoding scheme is still an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Marvin Geiselhart , Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Reed-Muller codes encode an $m$-variate polynomial of degree $r$ by evaluating it on all points in $\{0,1\}^m$. We denote this code by $RM(m,r)$. The minimal distance of $RM(m,r)$ is $2^{m-r}$ and so it cannot correct more than half that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Ramprasad Saptharishi , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

In this work, we investigate the performance of polar codes with the assistance of feedback in communication systems. Although it is well known that feedback does not improve the capacity of memoryless channels, we show that the finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ling Liu , Qi Cao , Liping Li , Baoming Bai

In this work, we propose a decoding method of Golay codes from the perspective of Polarization Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) codes. By invoking Forney's cubing construction of Golay codes and their generators $G^*(8,7)/(8,4)$, we found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yujun Ji , Ling Liu , Shanxiang Lyu , Chao Chen , Tao Dai , Baoming Bai

This paper proposes a method to optimize communication code rates via the application of neural polar decoders (NPDs). Employing this approach enables simultaneous optimization of code rates over input distributions while providing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ziv Aharoni , Bashar Huleihel , Henry D Pfister , Haim H Permuter

Polar codes have been gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Conventional decoding algorithms for polar codes strive to balance achievable performance and computational complexity in classical computing. While maximum likelihood (ML) decoding guarantees optimal performance, its NP-hard nature makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Shintaro Fujiwara , Naoki Ishikawa

Fast polarization is crucial for the performance guarantees of polar codes. In the memoryless setting, the rate of polarization is known to be exponential in the square root of the block length. A complete characterization of the rate of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

In 2008 Arikan proposed polar coding [arXiv:0807.3917] which we summarize as follows: (a) From the root channel $W$ synthesize recursively a series of channels $W_N^{(1)},\dotsc,W_N^{(N)}$. (b) Select sophisticatedly a subset $A$ of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

Polar codes are introduced for discrete memoryless broadcast channels. For $m$-user deterministic broadcast channels, polarization is applied to map uniformly random message bits from $m$ independent messages to one codeword while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Naveen Goela , Emmanuel Abbe , Michael Gastpar

The paper proposes to decode Reed-Muller (RM) codes by projecting onto only a few subspaces such that the number of projections is significantly reduced. It reveals that the probability that error pairs are canceled simultaneously in two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qin Huang , Bin Zhang