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The problem of polar coding for an arbitrary sequence of independent binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels $\left\{W_i\right\}_{i=1}^{N}$ is considered. The sequence of channels is assumed to be completely known to both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Hessam Mahdavifar

A concatenated coding scheme over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels using a polarization transformation followed by outer sub-codes is analyzed. Achievable error exponents and upper bounds on the error rate are derived. The first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein

For the polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009, the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

A transform that is universally polarizing over a set of channels with memory is presented. Memory may be present in both the input to the channel and the channel itself. Both the encoder and the decoder are aware of the input distribution,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

This paper presents the first proof of polarization for the deletion channel with a constant deletion rate and a regular hidden-Markov input distribution. A key part of this work involves representing the deletion channel using a trellis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ido Tal , Henry D. Pfister , Arman Fazeli , Alexander Vardy

Inevitably, assessing the overall performance of a quantum computer must rely on characterizing some of its elementary constituents and, from this information, formulate a broader statement concerning more complex constructions thereof.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Arnaud Carignan-Dugas , Matthew Alexander , Joseph Emerson

We construct a channel coding scheme to achieve the capacity of any discrete memoryless channel based solely on the techniques of polar coding. In particular, we show how source polarization and randomness extraction via polarization can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 David Sutter , Joseph M. Renes , Frédéric Dupuis , Renato Renner

Ar{\i}kan's polar coding, is by now a well studied technique that allows achieving the symmetric capacity of binary input memoryless channels with low complexity encoding and decoding, provided that the polar decoding architecture is used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Mine Alsan

The polar transformation of a binary erasure channel (BEC) can be exactly approximated by other BECs. Ar{\i}kan proposed that polar codes for a BEC can be efficiently constructed by using its useful property. This study proposes a new class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata

Polar coding is a recently proposed coding technique that can provably achieve the channel capacity. The polar code structure, which is based on the original 2x2 generator matrix, polarises the channels, i.e., a portion of the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Berksan Serbetci , Ali Emre Pusane

Using a mild variant of polar codes we design linear compression schemes compressing Hidden Markov sources (where the source is a Markov chain, but whose state is not necessarily observable from its output), and to decode from Hidden Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Venkatesan Guruswami , Preetum Nakkiran , Madhu Sudan

We show that the mismatched capacity of binary discrete memoryless channels can be improved by channel combining and splitting via Ar{\i}kan's polar transformations. We also show that the improvement is possible even if the transformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Mine Alsan , Emre Telatar

Achieving security against adversaries with unlimited computational power is of great interest in a communication scenario. Since polar codes are capacity achieving codes with low encoding-decoding complexity and they can approach perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Amirsina Torfi , Sobhan Soleymani , Siamak Aram , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

In this paper, we introduce a binary balanced tree (BBT) channel transformation that extends Ar{\i}kan's channel transformation to arbitrary block lengths. We prove that the proposed transformation induces channel polarization, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

The paper investigates the emerging field of low-complexity non-binary polar code (NB-PC) decoders. It shows that customizing each kernel of an NB-PC decoder through offline analysis can significantly reduce the overall decoding complexity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Joseph Jabbour , Ali Chamas Al-Ghouwayel , Emmanuel Boutillon

A polar coding scheme is introduced in this paper for the wire-tap channel. It is shown that the provided scheme achieves the entire rate-equivocation region for the case of symmetric and degraded wire-tap channel, where the weak notion of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Eran Hof , Shlomo Shamai

The Hilbert space of probability mass functions (pmf) is introduced in this thesis. A factorization method for multivariate pmfs is proposed by using the tools provided by the Hilbert space of pmfs. The resulting factorization is special…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Muhammet Fatih Bayramoglu

Arikan's recursive code construction is designed to polarize a collection of memoryless channels into a set of good and a set of bad channels, and it can be efficiently decoded using successive cancellation. It was recently shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Benjamin Bourassa , Maxime Tremblay , David Poulin

We develop component evolution (CE), a framework based on complex function theory for finite-blocklength channel polarization on discrete binary-input memoryless output-symmetric (BMS) channels. In this view, the Bhattacharyya parameter is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dongxiao Xu , Moritz Wiese , Holger Boche