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Due to the high error rate of qubits, detecting and correcting errors is essential for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are one of the most promising quantum error correction…

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 face the following dilemma for designing low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) for quantum error correction. 1) The row weights of parity-check should be large: The minimum distances are bounded above by the minimum row weights of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Manabu Hagiwara , Kenta Kasai , Hideki Imai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes are capable of achieving excellent performance with low encoding and decoding complexity. In this paper we discuss several graph-cover-based methods for deriving families of time-invariant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ali E. Pusane , Roxana Smarandache , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

We analyze the asymptotic performance of nonbinary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes built on the general linear group, when the transmission takes place over the binary erasure channel. We propose an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Amina Piemontese , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Giulio Colavolpe

The near channel performance of Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC) has motivated its wide applications. Iterative decoding of LDPC codes provides significant implementation challenges as the complexity grows with the code size. Recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Sudeep Kanur , Georgios Georgakarakos , Antti Siirilä , Jérémie Lagravière , Kristian Nybom , Sébastien Lafond , Johan Lilius

We investigate the construction of quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from classical quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes with girth greater than or equal to 6. We have shown that the classical codes in the generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Todd A. Brun , Igor Devetak

We consider spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes with finite smoothing parameters. A finite smoothing parameter is important for designing practical codes that are decoded using low-complexity windowed decoders. By optimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Laurent Schmalen , Vahid Aref , Fanny Jardel

Aiming at bridging the gap between the maximum likelihood decoding (MLD) and the suboptimal iterative decodings for short or medium length LDPC codes, we present a generalized ordered statistic decoding (OSD) in the form of syndrome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Guangwen Li , Guangzeng Feng

Belief Propagation (BP) followed by Ordered Statistics Decoding (OSD) has emerged as the gold standard for decoding quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes. Recent advancements in this field have proposed new methods and algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Michele Banfi , Marco Ferrari , Antonino Favano , Alberto Tarable , Luca Barletta

In this paper, we propose a new class of quantized message-passing decoders for LDPC codes over the BSC. The messages take values (or levels) from a finite set. The update rules do not mimic belief propagation but instead are derived using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shiva Kumar Planjery , David Declercq , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Bane Vasić

In this paper, we analyze the tradeoff between coding rate and asymptotic performance of a class of generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes constructed by including a certain fraction of generalized constraint (GC) nodes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yanfang Liu , Pablo M. Olmos , Tobias Koch

We introduce AutDEC, a fast and accurate decoder for quantum error-correcting codes with large automorphism groups. Our decoder employs a set of automorphisms of the quantum code and an ensemble of belief propagation (BP) decoders. Each BP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Stergios Koutsioumpas , Hasan Sayginel , Mark Webster , Dan E Browne

SC-LDPC codes with sub-block locality can be decoded locally at the level of sub-blocks that are much smaller than the full code block, thus providing fast access to the coded information. The same code can also be decoded globally using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto , Lara Dolecek

We show in this work that reinforcement learning can be successfully applied to decoding short to moderate length sparse graph-based channel codes. Specifically, we focus on low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, which for example have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Salman Habib , Allison Beemer , Joerg Kliewer

Polar codes asymptotically achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels, yet their error-correcting performance under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding for short and moderate length codes is worse than that of other modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

Quantum error correction is the building block for constructing fault-tolerant quantum processors that can operate reliably even if its constituting elements are corrupted by decoherence. In this context, real-time decoding is a necessity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Antonio deMarti iOlius , Josu Etxezarreta Martinez

A protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) code design technique for bandwidth-efficient coded modulation is presented. The approach jointly optimizes the LDPC code node degrees and the mapping of the coded bits to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Fabian Steiner , Georg Böcherer , Gianluigi Liva

This article introduces a novel concatenated coding scheme called sparse regression LDPC (SR-LDPC) codes. An SR-LDPC code consists of an outer non-binary LDPC code and an inner sparse regression code (SPARC) whose respective field size and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

We present a method for estimating the undetected error rate when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is performed on the output of the decoder of short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. This system is of interest for telecommand links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marco Baldi , Nicola Maturo , Giacomo Ricciutelli , Franco Chiaraluce