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Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a universal framework for decoding all block codes by testing candidate error patterns (EPs). Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) facilitates parallel implementation of GRAND by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Li Wan , Wenyi Zhang

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their high encoding rates and distances. However, implementing logical operations using qLDPC codes presents significant…

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We introduce a new family of rank metric codes: Low Rank Parity Check codes (LRPC), for which we propose an efficient probabilistic decoding algorithm. This family of codes can be seen as the equivalent of classical LDPC codes for the rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Nicolas Aragon , Philippe Gaborit , Adrien Hauteville , Olivier Ruatta , Gilles Zémor

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often asked to generate structured outputs that obey precise syntactic rules, such as code snippets or formatted data. Grammar-constrained decoding (GCD) can guarantee that LLM outputs matches such rules by…

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We consider automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) of quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Belief propagation (BP) decoding on the conventional factor graph is equivariant to the quasi-cyclic automorphisms and therefore…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Marvin Geiselhart , Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

Quantum Tanner codes constitute a family of quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with good parameters, i.e., constant encoding rate and relative distance. In this article, we prove that quantum Tanner codes also facilitate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Shouzhen Gu , Eugene Tang , Libor Caha , Shin Ho Choe , Zhiyang He , Aleksander Kubica

We compare the performance of short-length linear binary codes on the binary erasure channel and the binary-input Gaussian channel. We use a universal decoder that can decode any linear binary block code: Gaussian-elimination based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-09 J. Van Wonterghem , A. Alloum , J. J. Boutros , M. Moeneclaey

We introduce a quantum Maxwell erasure decoder for CSS quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes that extends peeling with bounded guessing. Guesses are tracked symbolically and can be eliminated by restrictive checks, giving a tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Bruno Costa Alves Freire , François-Marie Le Régent , Anthony Leverrier

We address noisy message-passing decoding of lowdensity parity-check (LDPC) codes over additive white Gaussian noise channels. Message-passing decoders in which certain processing units iteratively exchange messages are common for decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Alla Tarighati , Hamed Farhadi , Farshad Lahouti

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is an essential field of research towards the realization of large-scale quantum computers. On the theoretical side, a lot of effort is put into designing error-correcting codes that protect quantum data from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Lucas Berent , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Generalized product codes (GPCs) are extensions of product codes (PCs) where code symbols are protected by two component codes but not necessarily arranged in a rectangular array. We consider a deterministic construction of GPCs (as opposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

We determine the critical noise level for decoding low density parity check error correcting codes based on the magnetization enumerator ($\cM$), rather than on the weight enumerator ($\cW$) employed in the information theory literature.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 J. van Mourik , D. Saad , Y. Kabashima

The concept of Generalized Inverse based Decoding (GID) is introduced, as an algebraic framework for the syndrome decoding problem (SDP) and low weight codeword problem (LWP). The framework has ground on two characterizations by generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Quantum hardware suffers from high error rates and noise, which makes directly running applications on them ineffective. Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is a critical technique towards fault tolerance which encodes the quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Hanrui Wang , Pengyu Liu , Yilian Liu , Jiaqi Gu , Jonathan Baker , Frederic T. Chong , Song Han

We propose a quantized decoding algorithm for low- density parity-check codes where the variable node update rule of the standard min-sum algorithm is replaced with a look-up table (LUT) that is designed using an information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Michael Meidlinger , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg , Gerald Matz

This paper investigates decoding of binary linear block codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC). Of the current iterative decoding algorithms on this channel, we review the Recovery Algorithm and the Guess Algorithm. We then present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 J. Cai , C. Tjhai , M. Tomlinson , M. Ambroze , M. Ahmed

We establish that it is possible to extract accurate blockwise and bitwise soft output from Guessing Codeword Decoding with minimal additional computational complexity by considering it as a variant of Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ken R. Duffy , Peihong Yuan , Joseph Griffin , Muriel Medard

We propose a novel binary message passing decoding algorithm for product-like codes based on bounded distance decoding (BDD) of the component codes. The algorithm, dubbed iterative BDD with scaled reliability (iBDD-SR), exploits the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

In this paper, a new method for decoding Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, based on Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural networks is proposed. Due to the fact that in neural networks all procedures are processed in parallel, this method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Alireza Karami , Mahmoud Ahmadian Attari

Decoder diversity is a powerful error correction framework in which a collection of decoders collaboratively correct a set of error patterns otherwise uncorrectable by any individual decoder. In this paper, we propose a new approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Xin Xiao , Nithin Raveendran , Bane Vasic , Shu Lin , Ravi Tandon