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Several recently proposed code-based cryptosystems base their security on a slightly generalized version of the classical (syndrome) decoding problem. Namely, in the so-called restricted (syndrome) decoding problem, the error values stem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Marco Baldi , Sebastian Bitzer , Alessio Pavoni , Paolo Santini , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Violetta Weger

Increasing network utilization is often considered as the holy grail of communications. In this article, the concept of sub-rate coding and decoding in the framework of linear network coding (LNC) is discussed for single-source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ben Grinboim , Itay Shrem , Ofer Amrani

Recent years have seen rapid development in the subject of quantum coding theory, with breakthroughs on many exciting classes of codes, including quantum LDPC codes, quantum locally testable codes, and quantum codes with interesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Adam Wills , Ting-Chun Lin , Rachel Yun Zhang , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We study a linear computation problem over a quantum multiple access channel (LC-QMAC), where $S$ servers share an entangled state and separately store classical data streams $W_1,\cdots, W_S$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_d$. A user aims…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Lei Hu , Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Yu Shi , Sennur Ulukus , Saikat Guha

Atom loss is a dominant error source in neutral-atom quantum processors, yet its correlated structure remains largely unexploited by existing quantum error correction decoders. We analyze the performance of the surface code equipped with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Hugo Perrin , Gatien Roger , Guido Pupillo

The design of codes for feedback-enabled communications has been a long-standing open problem. Recent research on non-linear, deep learning-based coding schemes have demonstrated significant improvements in communication reliability over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , David Love , Christopher Brinton

Conventional embedding methods directly associate each symbol with a continuous embedding vector, which is equivalent to applying a linear transformation based on a "one-hot" encoding of the discrete symbols. Despite its simplicity, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Ting Chen , Martin Renqiang Min , Yizhou Sun

Point-to-multipoint communications are expected to play a pivotal role in next-generation networks. This paper refers to a cellular system transmitting layered multicast services to a multicast group of users. Reliability of communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Daniel E. Lucani

In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering source information from an incomplete set of network coded data. We first study the theoretical performance of such systems under maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding and derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

The network communication scenario where one or more receivers request all the information transmitted by different sources is considered. We introduce distributed polynomial-time network codes in the presence of malicious nodes. Our codes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Hongyi Yao , Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Sidharth Jaggi , Tracey Ho

Regenerating codes provide an efficient way to recover data at failed nodes in distributed storage systems. It has been shown that regenerating codes can be designed to minimize the per-node storage (called MSR) or minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Yunghsiang Han , Hung-Ta Pai , Rong Zheng , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we propose a new coded computing technique called "substitute decoding" for general iterative distributed computation tasks. In the first part of the paper, we use PageRank as a simple example to show that substitute decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yaoqing Yang , Malhar Chaudhari , Pulkit Grover , Soummya Kar

The uplink of a cloud radio access network architecture is studied in which decoding at the cloud takes place via network function virtualization on commercial off-the-shelf servers. In order to mitigate the impact of straggling decoders in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Malihe Aliasgari , Jörg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

In this paper, we show how to construct a factor graph from a network code. This provides a systematic framework for decoding using message passing algorithms. The proposed message passing decoder exploits knowledge of the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Daniel Salmond , Alex Grant , Terence Chan , Ian Grivell

Approaches to signal representation and coding theory have traditionally focused on how to best represent signals using parsimonious representations that incur the lowest possible distortion. Classical examples include linear and non-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Petros T Boufounos , Shantanu Rane , Hassan Mansour

Consider the problem of source coding in networks with multiple receiving terminals, each having access to some kind of side information. In this case, standard coding techniques are either prohibitively complex to decode, or require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Chen Avin , Michael Borokhovich , Asaf Cohen , Zvi Lotker

This paper studies a layered coding framework with a relaxed hierarchical structure. Advances in wired/wireless communication and consumer electronic devices have created a requirement for serving the same content at different quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-09 Mehdi Salehifar , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Kenneth Rose

We study the problem of decoding classical information encoded on quantum states at the output of a quantum channel, with particular focus on increasing the communication rates towards the maximum allowed by Quantum Mechanics. After a brief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Matteo Rosati

In its most elementary form, compressed sensing studies the design of decoding algorithms to recover a sufficiently sparse vector or code from a lower dimensional linear measurement vector. Typically it is assumed that the decoder has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Michael Murray , Jared Tanner

The introduction of the new multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing framework, has recently revealed how a parallel treatment of users can yield large parallelization gains with relatively low computation and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amir Masoud Jafarpisheh , Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia