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Polar codes are the first provable capacity-achieving forward error correction (FEC) codes. In general polar codes can be decoded via either successive cancellation (SC) or belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. However, to date…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

We propose new compressive parameter estimation algorithms that make use of polar interpolation to improve the estimator precision. Our work extends previous approaches involving polar interpolation for compressive parameter estimation in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Karsten Fyhn , Marco F. Duarte , Søren Holdt Jensen

Renewed interest in mixed-precision algorithms has emerged due to growing data capacity and bandwidth concerns, as well as the advancement of GPUs, which enable significant speedup for low precision arithmetic. In light of this, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Alec Michael Dunton , Alyson Fox

This paper presents an enhanced belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm and a reinforcement learning-based BP decoding algorithm for polar codes. The enhanced BP algorithm weighs each Processing Element (PE) input based on their signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 L. M. Oliveira , R. M. Oliveira , R. C. de Lamare

Many imaging modalities involve reconstruction of unknown objects from collections of noisy projections related by random rotations. In one of these modalities, cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the extremely low signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Joakim Andén , Justus Sagemüller

Deep learning models are used to minimize the number of polyps that goes unnoticed by the experts and to accurately segment the detected polyps during interventions. Although state-of-the-art models are proposed, it remains a challenge to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Tugberk Erol , Duygu Sarikaya

A new score function is proposed for stack decoding of polar codes, which enables one to accurately compare paths of different lengths. The proposed score function includes bias, which reflects the average behaviour of the correct path.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Peter Trifonov , Vera Miloslavskaya , Ruslan Morozov

Hypernetworks were recently shown to improve the performance of message passing algorithms for decoding error correcting codes. In this work, we demonstrate how hypernetworks can be applied to decode polar codes by employing a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

When a neural network (NN) is used to decode a polar code, its training complexity scales exponentially as the code block size (or to be precise, as a number of message bits) increases. Therefore, existing solutions that use a neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Evgeny Stupachenko

High resolution simulations of polar ice-sheets play a crucial role in the ongoing effort to develop more accurate and reliable Earth-system models for probabilistic sea-level projections. These simulations often require a massive amount of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jerry Watkins , Max Carlson , Kyle Shan , Irina Tezaur , Mauro Perego , Luca Bertagna , Carolyn Kao , Matthew J. Hoffman , Stephen F. Price

We show that low-rank adaptation of large-scale models suffers from a low stable rank that is well below the linear algebraic rank of the subspace, degrading fine-tuning performance. To mitigate the underutilization of the allocated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kai Lion , Liang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Niao He

While constructing polar codes for successive-cancellation decoding can be implemented efficiently by sorting the bit-channels, finding optimal polar codes for cyclic-redundancy-check-aided successive-cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoding in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yun Liao , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Hengjie Yang , John M. Cioffi

Linear programming has been practically solved mainly by simplex and interior point methods. Compared with the weakly polynomial complexity obtained by the interior point methods, the existence of strongly polynomial bounds for the length…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Tianhao Liu , Shanwen Pu , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

An implementation-efficient finite alphabet decoder for polar codes relying on coarsely quantized messages and low-complexity operations is proposed. Typically, finite alphabet decoding performs concatenated compression operations on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Philipp Mohr , Syed Aizaz Ali Shah , Gerhard Bauch

Polar codes represent one of the major recent breakthroughs in coding theory and, because of their attractive features, they have been selected for the incoming 5G standard. As such, a lot of attention has been devoted to the development of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke , Warren J. Gross

The classic method for computing the spectral decomposition of a real symmetric matrix, the Jacobi algorithm, can be accelerated by using mixed precision arithmetic. The Jacobi algorithm is aiming to reduce the off-diagonal entries…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Zhengbo Zhou

Orthogonality-based optimizers, such as Muon, have recently shown strong performance across large-scale training and community-driven efficiency challenges. However, these methods rely on a costly gradient orthogonalization step. Even…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Thibaut Boissin , Thomas Massena , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier

We present a novel distributed computing framework that is robust to slow compute nodes, and is capable of both approximate and exact computation of linear operations. The proposed mechanism integrates the concepts of randomized sketching…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

The Muon optimizer has received considerable attention for its strong performance in training large language models, yet the design principle behind its matrix-gradient orthogonalization remains largely elusive. In this paper, we introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Zhehang Du , Weijie Su

In this paper we explore acceleration techniques for large scale nonconvex optimization problems with special focuses on deep neural networks. The extrapolation scheme is a classical approach for accelerating stochastic gradient descent for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Guangzeng Xie , Yitan Wang , Shuchang Zhou , Zhihua Zhang