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This paper first presents a new approach to evaluating the descriptive complexity of finite-length binary sequences. Specifically, we investigate the sequence-wise recovery behavior induced by polar compression and successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

In this paper, we introduce a new coding and decoding structure for enhancing the reliability and performance of polar codes, specifically at low error rates. We achieve this by concatenating two polar codes in series to create robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammed Mensouri , Mustapha Eddahibi

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

Polar codes are the first codes with a proven capacity-achieving capability, but their decoding faces several challenges, especially under long code lengths. In this paper, we target algorithmic improvements and analyses to enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiajie Li , Sihui Shen , Warren J. Gross

In this work, a novel data-driven methodology for designing polar codes for channels with and without memory is proposed. The methodology is suitable for the case where the channel is given as a "black-box" and the designer has access to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ziv Aharoni , Bashar Huleihel , Henry D. Pfister , Haim H. Permuter

Polar codes have attracted much recent attention as the first codes with low computational complexity that provably achieve optimal rate-regions for a large class of information-theoretic problems. One significant drawback, however, is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi , Michelle Effros

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

This paper revisits polar code design for a binary-input additive white Gaussian noise (BI-AWGN) channel when successive cancellation (SC) decoding is applied at the receiver. We focus on the reciprocal channel approximation (RCA), which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Hideki Ochiai , Kosuke Ikeya , Patrick Mitran

Explicit coding schemes are proposed to achieve the rate-distortion function of the Heegard-Berger problem using polar codes. Specifically, a nested polar code construction is employed to achieve the rate-distortion function for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Jinwen Shi , Ling Liu , Deniz Gündüz , Cong Ling

In this paper we deal with polar code automorphisms that are beneficial under low-latency automorphism ensemble (AE) decoding, and we propose polar code designs that have such automorphisms. Successive-cancellation (SC) decoding and thus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Charles Pillet , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

A generalization of the polar coding scheme called mixed-kernels is introduced. This generalization exploits several homogeneous kernels over alphabets of different sizes. An asymptotic analysis of the proposed scheme shows that its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Noam Presman , Ofer Shapira , Simon Litsyn

We present a novel distributed computing framework that is robust to slow compute nodes, and is capable of both approximate and exact computation of linear operations. The proposed mechanism integrates the concepts of randomized sketching…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

We present a method of constructing rate-compatible polar codes that are capacity-achieving with low-complexity sequential decoders. The proposed code construction allows for incremental retransmissions at different rates in order to adapt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Song-Nam Hong , Dennis Hui , Ivana Marić

Over any discrete memoryless channel, we build codes such that: for one, their block error probabilities and code rates scale like random codes'; and for two, their encoding and decoding complexities scale like polar codes'. Quantitatively,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

Arikan has shown that systematic polar codes (SPC) outperform nonsystematic polar codes (NSPC). However, the performance gain comes at the price of elevated encoding complexity, i.e., compared to NSPC, the available encoding methods for SPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Guo Tai Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Liang Zhang

Polar codes are of great interests because they provably achieve the capacity of both discrete and continuous memoryless channels while having an explicit construction. Most existing decoding algorithms of polar codes are based on bit-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

Recently, a novel variation of polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes has been introduced by Ar{\i}kan. These codes significantly outperform conventional polar and convolutional codes, particularly for short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

This paper focuses on low complexity successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. In particular, using the fact that splitting may be unnecessary when the reliability of decoding the unfrozen bit is sufficiently high, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhaoyang Zhang , Liang Zhang , Xianbin Wang , Caijun Zhong , H. Vincent Poor

Recently, automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) has drawn research interest as a more computationally efficient alternative to successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. Although AED has demonstrated superior performance for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Marvin Geiselhart , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

This paper proposes the design of polar and convolutional coset codes for the unequal message protection (UMP) in the short blocklength regime, to overcome the rate loss introduced by preamble-based solutions. After providing conditions to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alexander Sauter , Riccardo Schiavone , Lucía Balsa Picado , Gianluigi Liva