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Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a family of universal decoding algorithms suitable for decoding any moderate redundancy code of any length. We establish that, through the use of list decoding, soft-input variants of GRAND…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Kevin Galligan , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed approximate Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding technique that can decode any linear error-correcting block code. Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) is a powerful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Syed Mohsin Abbas , Thibaud Tonnellier , Furkan Ercan , Marwan Jalaleddine , Warren J. Gross

In this work, we investigate guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) with quantized soft input. First, we analyze the achievable rate of ordered reliability bits GRAND (ORBGRAND), which uses the rank order of the reliability as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Evan P. Gabhart , Muriel Médard

We introduce a generalized low-density parity-check decoding framework for quantum Tanner codes utilizing soft-output guessing random additive noise decoding (SOGRAND). By soft-output decoding entire component codes, we mitigate trapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Lukas Rapp , Muriel Médard , Eugene Tang , Ken R. Duffy

We consider a transmitter that encodes data packets using network coding and broadcasts coded packets. A receiver employing network decoding recovers the data packets if a sufficient number of error-free coded packets are gathered. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Dmitry Savostyanov

We establish that during the execution of any Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm, an interpretable, useful measure of decoding confidence can be evaluated. This measure takes the form of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Medard

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a universal decoding algorithm that has been recently proposed as a practical way to perform maximum likelihood decoding. It generates a sequence of possible error patterns and applies them…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Carlo Condo

The soft-output successive cancellation list (SOSCL) decoder provides a methodology for estimating the a-posteriori probability log-likelihood ratios by only leveraging the conventional SCL decoder for polar codes. However, the sequential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Yin Xu , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Wenjun Zhang

In this work, we propose a new soft-input soft-output decoder called soft-output from covered space (SOCS) decoder. It estimates the a posteriori reliability based on the space explored by a list decoder, i.e., the set of vectors for which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Tim Janz , Simon Obermüller , Andreas Zunker , Stephan ten Brink

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed decoding paradigm particularly suitable for codes with short length and high rate. Among its variants, ordered reliability bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) exploits soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Li Wan , Wenyi Zhang

CRC codes have long since been adopted in a vast range of applications. The established notion that they are suitable primarily for error detection can be set aside through use of the recently proposed Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Wei An , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

The successive cancellation list decoder (SCL) is an efficient decoder for classical polar codes with low decoding error, approximating the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for small list sizes. Here we adapt the SCL to the task of decoding…

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

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a universal decoding paradigm that decodes by repeatedly testing error patterns until identifying a codeword, where the ordering of tests is generated by the received channel values. On one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Li Wan , Huarui Yin , Wenyi Zhang

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a code-agnostic decoding method that iteratively guesses the noise pattern affecting the received codeword. The number of noise sequences to test depends on the noise realization. Thus,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Filippo Christen , Darja Nonaca , Christoph Studer

Error-correcting codes enable reliable communication, yet practical soft decoding remains challenging across code families and block lengths. We propose SB-ECC, a score-based decoder that casts decoding as continuous-time denoising. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alon Helvits , Eliya Nachmani

We present a framework that can exploit the tradeoff between the undetected error rate (UER) and block error rate (BLER) of polar-like codes. It is compatible with all successive cancellation (SC)-based decoding methods and relies on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

In the search for highly efficient decoders for short LDPC codes approaching maximum likelihood performance, a relayed decoding strategy, specifically activating the ordered statistics decoding process upon failure of a neural min-sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu

Staircase codes (SCCs) are typically decoded using iterative bounded-distance decoding (BDD) and hard decisions. In this paper, a novel decoding algorithm is proposed, which partially uses soft information from the channel. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Yi Lei , Bin Chen , Gabriele Liga , Xiong Deng , Zizheng Cao , Jianqiang Li , Kun Xu , Alex Alvarado

We propose a novel soft-aided low-complexity decoder for product codes based on dynamic reliability scores and error-and-erasure decoding. We observe coding gains of up to 1.2 dB compared to conventional hard-decision decoders.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sisi Miao , Lukas Rapp , Laurent Schmalen

We present a novel method for error correction in the presence of fading channel estimation errors (CEE). When such errors are significant, considerable performance losses can be observed if the wireless transceiver is not adapted. Instead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard