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Due to their weak algebraic structure, low rank parity check (LRPC) codes have been employed in several post-quantum cryptographic schemes. In this paper we propose new improved decoding algorithms for (n, k) LRPC codes of dual rank weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ermes Franch , Chunlei Li

A majority logic decoder made of unreliable logic gates, whose failures are transient and datadependent, is analyzed. Based on a combinatorial representation of fault configurations a closed-form expression for the average bit error rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Srdan Brkic , Predrag Ivanis , Bane Vasic

In this paper, two decoding algorithms based on Successive Cancellation (SC) are proposed to improve the error-correction performance of cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided polar codes while aiming for a low-complexity implementation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Charles Pillet , Ilshat Sagitov , Dominic Deslandes , Pascal Giard

Efficient and realistic error decoding is crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) on near-term devices. While decoding is a classical post-processing task, its effectiveness depends on accurately modeling quantum noise, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yi Tian , Y. Zheng , Xiaoting Wang , Ching-Yi Lai

In this paper we investigate stopping criteria for iterative decoding from a mutual information perspective. We introduce new iteration stopping rules based on an approximation of the mutual information between encoded bits and decoder soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Jinhong Wu , Branimir R. Vojcic , Jia Sheng

We propose four finite-length scaling laws to predict the frame error rate (FER) performance of spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codes under full belief propagation (BP) decoding with a limit on the number of decoding iterations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Roman Sokolovskii , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

In this paper, we consider the decoding of fountain codes where the received symbols may have errors. It is motivated by the application of fountain codes in DNA-based data storage systems where the inner code decoding, which generally has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xuan He , Kui Cai

Quantum error correction, which utilizes logical qubits that are encoded as redundant multiple physical qubits to find and correct errors in physical qubits, is indispensable for practical quantum computing. Surface code is considered to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hoshitaro Ohnishi , Hideo Mukai

We consider communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and belief propagation (BP) decoding. The bit error probability for infinite block length is known by density evolution and it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-23 Ryuhei Mori , Kenta Kasai , Tomoharu Shibuya , Kohichi Sakaniwa

Decoding sparse quantum codes can be accomplished by syndrome-based decoding using a belief propagation (BP) algorithm.We significantly improve this decoding scheme by developing a new feedback adjustment strategy for the standard BP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Yun-Jiang Wang , Barry C. Sanders , Bao-Ming Bai , Xin-Mei Wang

The discovery of new quantum error-correcting codes that encode several logical qubits into relatively few physical qubits motivates the development of efficient and accurate methods of decoding these systems. Here, we adopt the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Kaavya Sahay , Dominic J. Williamson , Benjamin J. Brown

This paper proposes a new iterative gradient descent decoding method for real number parity codes. The proposed decoder, named Gradient Descent Symbol Update (GDSU), is used for a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) real-number codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Oana Boncalo , Alexandru Amaricai

Message-passing iterative decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) block codes are known to be subject to decoding failures due to so-called pseudo-codewords. These failures can cause the large signal-to-noise ratio performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Roxana Smarandache , Ali E. Pusane , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

In this paper we review existing hard-decision decoding algorithms for product codes along with different post-processing techniques used in conjunction with the iterative decoder for product codes. We improve the decoder by Reddy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ferdinand Blomqvist

Practically good error-correcting codes should have good parameters and efficient decoding algorithms. Some algebraically defined good codes such as cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes, and Reed-Muller codes have nice decoding algorithms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Lucky Galvez , Jon-Lark Kim

Cryptography based on the presumed hardness of decoding codes -- i.e., code-based cryptography -- has recently seen increased interest due to its plausible security against quantum attackers. Notably, of the four proposals for the NIST…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Maxime Bombar , Nicolas Resch , Emiel Wiedijk

This work introduces a decoding strategy for binary self-dual codes possessing an automorphism of a specific type. The proposed algorithm is a hard decision iterative decoding scheme. The enclosed experiments show that the new decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Radinka Yorgova

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are promising for realizing scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their potential for low-overhead protocols. A common approach to decoding qLDPC codes is to use the belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Kento Tsubouchi , Hayata Yamasaki , Shiro Tamiya

We investigate error propagation in sliding window decoding of braided convolutional codes (BCCs). Previous studies of BCCs have focused on iterative decoding thresholds, minimum distance properties, and their bit error rate (BER)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello, , Baoming Bai

We introduce a decoding framework for correlated errors in quantum LDPC codes under circuit-level noise. The core of our approach is a graph augmentation and rewiring for interference (GARI) method, which modifies the correlated detector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Arshpreet Singh Maan , Francisco-Garcia Herrero , Alexandru Paler , Valentin Savin