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We introduce a two-stage decimation process to improve the performance of neural belief propagation (NBP), recently introduced by Nachmani et al., for short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In the first stage, we build a list by…

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In this paper, we propose a new decoder, called the Multiple-Bases Belief-Propagation List Decoder (MBBP-LD), for Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (QLDPC) codes. It extends the Multiple-Bases Belief-Propagation (MBBP) framework, originally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Sheida Rabeti , Hessam Mahdavifar

The asymptotic iterative decoding performances of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes using min-sum (MS) and sum-product (SP) decoding algorithms on memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels are analyzed in this paper. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chun-Hao Hsu , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

In the short block length regime, pre-transformed polar codes together with successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding possess excellent error correction capabilities. However, in practice, the list size is limited due to the suboptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Henning Lulei , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Marvin Rübenacke , Holger Jäkel , Stephan ten Brink , Laurent Schmalen

Density evolution (DE) is one of the most powerful analytical tools for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes on memoryless binary-input/symmetric-output channels. The case of non-symmetric channels is tackled either by the LDPC coset code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chih-Chun Wang , H. Vincent Poor , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are an important feature of several communication and storage applications, offering a flexible and effective method for error correction. These codes are computationally complex and require the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Oscar Ferraz , Vitor Silva , Gabriel Falcao

We present the tree-structure expectation propagation (Tree-EP) algorithm to decode low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over discrete memoryless channels (DMCs). EP generalizes belief propagation (BP) in two ways. First, it can be used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Pablo M. Olmos , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Fernando Pérez-Cruz

In this paper a new message passing algorithm, which takes advantage of both tree-based re-parameterization and the knowledge of short cycles, is introduced for the purpose of decoding LDPC codes with short block lengths. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-25 J. Li , R. C. de Lamare

In this work, we propose a fully differentiable iterative decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed algorithm is composed of classical belief propagation (BP) decoding stages and intermediate graph neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Sebastian Cammerer , Joseph M. Renes

We investigate random spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code ensembles over finite fields. Under different variable-node edge-spreading rules, the random Tanner graphs of several coupled ensembles are defined by multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiaxin Lyu , Guanghui He

Low-density parity-check codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding are known to be well-performing for large block lengths. However, for short block lengths there is still a considerable gap between the performance of the BP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are specified by graphs, and are the error correction technique of choice in many communications and data storage contexts. Message passing decoders diffuse information carried by parity bits into the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Beyza Dabak , Ece Tiryaki , Robert Calderbank , Ahmed Hareedy

Owing to their capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity, polar codes have drawn much research interests recently. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

When binary linear error-correcting codes are used over symmetric channels, a relaxed version of the maximum likelihood decoding problem can be stated as a linear program (LP). This LP decoder can be used to decode error-correcting codes at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Siddharth Barman , Xishuo Liu , Stark C. Draper , Benjamin Recht

Low density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of linear block codes that are decoded by running belief propagation (BP) algorithm or log-likelihood ratio belief propagation (LLR-BP) over the factor graph of the code. One of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-15 A. Dinesh Kumar , Ambedkar Dukkipati

In this paper we present a new algorithm, denoted as TEP, to decode low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the Binary Erasure Channel (BEC). The TEP decoder is derived applying the expectation propagation (EP) algorithm with a tree-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-05 Pablo M. Olmos , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Fernando Pérez-Cruz

A new approach for combining non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes with higher-order modulation and probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) is presented. Instead of symbol-metric decoding (SMD), a bit-metric decoder (BMD) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Fabian Steiner , Georg Böcherer , Gianluigi Liva

We propose a new type of short to moderate block-length, linear error-correcting codes, called moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. The number of ones of the parity-check matrix of the codes presented is typically higher than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Samuel Ouzan , Yair Be'ery

In this paper, we consider the problem of iterative detection and decoding (IDD) for multi-antenna systems using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed IDD system consists of a soft-input soft-output parallel interference (PIC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Jingjing Liu , Peng Li , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

We consider near maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of short linear block codes. In particular, we propose a novel decoding approach based on neural belief propagation (NBP) decoding recently introduced by Nachmani et al. in which we allow a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Andreas Buchberger , Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Laurent Schmalen , Alexandre Graell i Amat