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Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the workhorse algorithm of deep learning technology. At each step of the training phase, a mini batch of samples is drawn from the training dataset and the weights of the neural network are adjusted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-07 Francesca Mignacco , Pierfrancesco Urbani

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with reliably generating highly structured outputs, such as program code, mathematical formulas, or well-formed markup. Constrained decoding approaches mitigate this problem by greedily restricting what…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kanghee Park , Jiayu Wang , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nadia Polikarpova , Loris D'Antoni

Aiming at bridging the gap between the maximum likelihood decoding (MLD) and the suboptimal iterative decodings for short or medium length LDPC codes, we present a generalized ordered statistic decoding (OSD) in the form of syndrome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Guangwen Li , Guangzeng Feng

In this paper we show the usability of the Gray code with constant weight words for computing linear combinations of codewords. This can lead to a big improvement of the computation time for finding the minimum distance of a code. We have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Nikolay Yankov , Krassimir Enev

In this paper, we propose projected gradient descent (PGD) algorithms for signal estimation from noisy nonlinear measurements. We assume that the unknown $p$-dimensional signal lies near the range of an $L$-Lipschitz continuous generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-22 Zhaoqiang Liu , Jun Han

The security of code-based cryptography relies primarily on the hardness of generic decoding with linear codes. The best generic decoding algorithms are all improvements of an old algorithm due to Prange: they are known under the name of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Thomas Debris-Alazard , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Traditionally, multi-trial error/erasure decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on Bounded Minimum Distance (BMD) decoders with an erasure option. Such decoders have error/erasure tradeoff factor L=2, which means that an error is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian Senger , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Martin Bossert , Victor V. Zyablov

We consider the problem of clustering noisy finite-length observations of stationary ergodic random processes according to their generative models without prior knowledge of the model statistics and the number of generative models. Two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Michael Tschannen , Helmut Bölcskei

For the additive Gaussian noise channel with average codeword power constraint, sparse superposition codes and adaptive successive decoding is developed. Codewords are linear combinations of subsets of vectors, with the message indexed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-22 Andrew R Barron , Antony Joseph

Two-dimensional color codes are a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computing, as they have high encoding rates, transversal implementation of logical Clifford gates, and resource-efficient magic state preparation schemes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Seok-Hyung Lee , Andrew Li , Stephen D. Bartlett

In this paper we explore the decision regions of Linear Programming (LP) decoding. We compare the decision regions of an LP decoder, a Belief Propagation (BP) decoder and the optimal Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoder. We study the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Asi Lifshitz , Yair Be'ery

We propose a method to determine the critical noise level for decoding Gallager type low density parity check error correcting codes. The method is based on the magnetization enumerator ($\cM$), rather than on the weight enumerator ($\cW$)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 J. van Mourik , D. Saad , Y. Kabashima

Despite the NP hardness of acquiring minimum distance $d_m$ for linear codes theoretically, in this paper we propose one experimental method of finding minimum-weight codewords, the weight of which is equal to $d_m$ for LDPC codes. One…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-09 Guangwen Li , Guangzeng Feng

Source localization and spectral estimation are among the most fundamental problems in statistical and array signal processing. Methods which rely on the orthogonality of the signal and noise subspaces, such as Pisarenko's method, MUSIC,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Matthew W. Morency , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Geert Leus

Approaching the 1.5329-dB shaping (granular) gain limit in mean-squared error (MSE) quantization of R^n is important in a number of problems, notably dirty-paper coding. For this purpose, we start with a binary low-density generator-matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-17 Qingchuan Wang , Chen He

Gravitational wave astronomy has become a reality after the historical detections accomplished during the first observing run of the two advanced LIGO detectors. In the following years, the number of detections is expected to increase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

Concurrent coding is an encoding scheme with "holographic" type properties that are shown here to be robust against a significant amount of noise and signal loss. This single encoding scheme is able to correct for random errors and burst…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-27 David M. Benton

Denoising methods require some assumptions about the signal of interest and the noise. While most denoising procedures require some knowledge about the noise level, which may be unknown in practice, here we assume that the signal expansion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Manuel Moussallam , Alexandre Gramfort , Laurent Daudet , Gaël Richard

The current paper investigates the bounded distance decoding (BDD) problem for ensembles of lattices whose generator matrices have sub-Gaussian entries. We first prove that, for these ensembles the BDD problem is NP-hard in the worst case.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shuhong Gao

Supporting ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a challenge in current wireless systems. Channel codes that generate large codewords improve reliability but necessitate the use of interleavers, which introduce undesirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Sahar Allahkaram , Francisco A. Monteiro , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou