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Reed Muller (RM) codes are known for their good minimum distance. One can use their structure to construct polar-like codes with good distance properties by choosing the information set as the rows of the polarization matrix with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Samet Gelincik , Philippe Mary , Anne Savard , Jean-Yves Baudais

We show that successive cancellation list decoding can be formulated exclusively using log-likelihood ratios. In addition to numerical stability, the log-likelihood ratio based formulation has useful properties which simplify the sorting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Mani Bastani Parizi , Andreas Burg

Quantum error correction (QEC) is critical for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing. Topological codes, such as the toric code, offer hardware-efficient architectures but their Tanner graphs contain many girth-4 cycles that degrade the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Menti , Francisco Lázaro

In Linear Programming (LP) decoding of a Low-Density-Parity-Check (LDPC) code one minimizes a linear functional, with coefficients related to log-likelihood ratios, over a relaxation of the polytope spanned by the codewords \cite{03FWK}. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael Chertkov , Mikhail G. Stepanov

Polar codes are a class of linear block codes that provably achieves channel capacity, and have been selected as a coding scheme for $5^{\rm th}$ generation wireless communication standards. Successive-cancellation (SC) decoding of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Carlo Condo , Furkan Ercan , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes form a very powerful family of codes with a low complexity decoding algorithm that attain many information theoretic limits in error correction and source coding. These codes are closely related to Reed-Muller codes because both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Magali Bardet , Vlad Dragoi , Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich

In this paper, we present an improved union bound on the Linear Programming (LP) decoding performance of the binary linear codes transmitted over an additive white Gaussian noise channels. The bounding technique is based on the second-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Ohad Gidon , Yair Be'ery

Previous work showed that polar codes can be decoded using off-the-shelf LDPC decoders by imposing special constraints on the LDPC code structure, which, however, resulted in some performance degradation. In this paper we show that this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Stephan ten Brink

Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding is an algorithm that provides very good error-correction performance for polar codes. However, its hardware implementation requires a large amount of memory, mainly to store intermediate results.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

The discovery of suitable automorphisms of polar codes gained a lot of attention by applying them in Automorphism Ensemble Decoding (AED) to improve the error-correction performance, especially for short block lengths. This paper introduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lucas Johannsen , Claus Kestel , Marvin Geiselhart , Timo Vogt , Stephan ten Brink , Norbert Wehn

The paper investigates the emerging field of low-complexity non-binary polar code (NB-PC) decoders. It shows that customizing each kernel of an NB-PC decoder through offline analysis can significantly reduce the overall decoding complexity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Joseph Jabbour , Ali Chamas Al-Ghouwayel , Emmanuel Boutillon

In this paper, we present an adaptive reweighted sparse belief propagation (AR-SBP) decoder for polar codes. The AR-SBP technique is inspired by decoders that employ the sum-product algorithm for low-density parity-check codes. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 R. M. Oliveira , R. C. de Lamare

Detectability of failures of linear programming (LP) decoding and its potential for improvement by adding new constraints motivate the use of an adaptive approach in selecting the constraints for the LP problem. In this paper, we make a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mohammad H. Taghavi N. , Paul H. Siegel

Polar codes attract more and more attention of researchers in recent years, since its capacity achieving property. However, their error-correction performance under successive cancellation (SC) decoding is inferior to other modern channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-11 Yu Wang , Lirui Chen , Qinglin Wang , Yang Zhang , Zuocheng Xing

This paper is concerned with a guessing codeword decoding (GCD) of linear block codes. Compared with the guessing noise decoding (GND), which is only efficient for high-rate codes, the GCD is efficient for not only high-rate codes but also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xiangping Zheng , Xiao Ma

This study investigates the problem of learning linear block codes optimized for Belief-Propagation decoders significantly improving performance compared to the state-of-the-art. Our previous research is extended with an enhanced system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Quentin Lampin , Guillaume Larue

Quantum error correction is indispensable for scalable quantum computation. Although encoding logical qubits substantially enhances noise resilience, achieving logical error rates low enough for practical algorithms remains challenging on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Haipeng Xie , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Kento Tsubouchi , Ying Li

Product codes are widespread in optical communications, thanks to their high throughput and good error-correction performance. Systematic polar codes have been recently considered as component codes for product codes. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Valerio Bioglio , Carlo Condo , Ingmar Land

Polar encoding, described by Arikan in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, July 2009, was a milestone for telecommunications. A Polar code distributes information among high and low-capacity channels, showing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Geraldo A. Barbosa

Polar codes have become one of the most favorable capacity achieving error correction codes (ECC) along with their simple encoding method. However, among the very few prior successive cancellation (SC) polar decoder designs, the required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Chuan Zhang , Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi