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In coding theory, handling errors that occur when symbols are inserted or deleted from a transmitted message is a long-standing challenge. Optimising redundancy for insertion and deletion channels remains a key open problem with significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anamika Singh , Abhay Kumar Singh

Coding theory is a central discipline underpinning wireline and wireless modems that are the workhorses of the information age. Progress in coding theory is largely driven by individual human ingenuity with sporadic breakthroughs over the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-24 Hyeji Kim , Yihan Jiang , Ranvir Rana , Sreeram Kannan , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

We develop novel protocols for generating loss-tolerant quantum codes; these are central for safeguarding information against qubit losses, with most crucial applications in quantum communications. Contrary to current proposals, our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Francesco Cesa , Tommaso Feri , Angelo Bassi

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

The interest in channel models in which the data is sent as an unordered set of binary strings has increased lately, due to emerging applications in DNA storage, among others. In this paper we analyze the minimal redundancy of binary codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

We show that linear codes combined with rejection sampling can yield a capacity-achieving scheme for simulating additive exchangeable noise channels. Specifically, our scheme achieves an amount of communication within $\log e + 1$ bits from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianguo Zhao , Cheuk Ting Li

Recent works have shown that the task of wireless transmission of images can be learned with the use of machine learning techniques. Very promising results in end-to-end image quality, superior to popular digital schemes that utilize source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tze-Yang Tung , David Burth Kurka , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gündüz

In network communication, it is common in broadcasting scenarios for there to exist a hierarchy among receivers based on information they decode due, for example, to different physical conditions or premium subscriptions. This hierarchy may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Farzin Salek , Patrick Hayden , Masahito Hayashi

Here, we study the problem of decoding information transmitted through unknown quantum states. We assume that Alice encodes an alphabet into a set of orthogonal quantum states, which are then transmitted to Bob. However, the quantum channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 D. Concha , L. Pereira , L. Zambrano , A. Delgado

This paper studies the sequence reconstruction problem for a channel inspired by protein identification. We introduce a coloring channel, where a sequence is transmitted through a channel that deletes all symbols not belonging to a fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jessica Bariffi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

We study error-correcting codes in the space $\mathcal{S}_{n,q}$ of length-$n$ multisets over a $q$-ary alphabet, motivated by permutation channels in which ordering is completely lost and errors act solely by deletions of symbols, i.e., by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Avraham Kreindel , Isaac Barouch Essayag , Aryeh Lev Zabokritskiy

Low-depth random circuit codes possess many desirable properties for quantum error correction but have so far only been analyzed in the code capacity setting where it is assumed that encoding gates and syndrome measurements are noiseless.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Jon Nelson , Gregory Bentsen , Steven T. Flammia , Michael J. Gullans

We propose a joint source-channel-network coding scheme, based on compressive sensing principles, for wireless networks with AWGN channels (that may include multiple access and broadcast), with sources exhibiting temporal and spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

When digital data are transmitted over a noisy channel, it is important to have a mechanism allowing recovery against a limited number of errors. Normally, a user string of 0's and 1's, called bits, is encoded by adding a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Mario Blaum

Why do neurons encode information the way they do? Normative answers to this question model neural activity as the solution to an optimisation problem; for example, the celebrated efficient coding hypothesis frames neural activity as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-06 William Dorrell , Peter E. Latham , James Whittington

Motivated by DNA storage systems and 3D fingerprinting, this work studies the adversarial torn paper channel with edit errors. This channel first applies at most $t_e$ edit errors (i.e., insertions, deletions, and substitutions) to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Maria Abu-Sini , Reinhard Heckel

We study the problem of lossy joint source-channel coding in a single-user energy harvesting communication system with causal energy arrivals and the energy storage unit may have leakage. In particular, we investigate the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh , Masoud Badiei Khuzani , Patrick Mitran

We study the binomial channel and the structure of its capacity-achieving input and output distributions. It is known that the capacity-achieving input distribution is discrete and supported on finitely many points. The best previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mohammadamin Baniasadi , Luca Barletta , Alex Dytso

In order to communicate a message over a noisy channel, a sender (Alice) uses an error-correcting code to encode her message $x$ into a codeword. The receiver (Bob) decodes it correctly whenever there is at most a small constant fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Meghal Gupta , Venkatesan Guruswami , Mihir Singhal

We consider the problem of constructing binary codes to recover from $k$-bit deletions with efficient encoding/decoding, for a fixed $k$. The single deletion case is well understood, with the Varshamov-Tenengolts-Levenshtein code from 1965…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Samuel Zbarsky