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An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau

When studying interacting systems, computing their statistical properties is a fundamental problem in various fields such as physics, applied mathematics, and machine learning. However, this task can be quite challenging due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Yijia Wang , Yuwen Ebony Zhang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

We construct an explicit quantum coding scheme which achieves a communication rate not less than the coherent information when used to transmit quantum information over a noisy quantum channel. For Pauli and erasure channels we also present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter , Frédéric Dupuis , Renato Renner

Constructions of locally decodable codes (LDCs) have one of two undesirable properties: low rate or high locality (polynomial in the length of the message). In settings where the encoder/decoder have already exchanged cryptographic keys and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Jeremiah Blocki , Shubhang Kulkarni , Samson Zhou

Autoregressive decoding in large language models (LLMs) requires $\mathcal{O}(n)$ sequential steps for $n$ tokens, fundamentally limiting inference throughput. Recent diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) enable parallel token generation through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Wenrui Bao , Zhiben Chen , Dan Xu , Yuzhang Shang

We consider a system of t synchronous processes that communicate only by sending messages to one another, and that together must perform $n$ independent units of work. Processes may fail by crashing; we want to guarantee that in every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cynthia Dwork , Joseph Y. Halpern , O. Waarts

We study the communication rate of coding schemes for interactive communication that transform any two-party interactive protocol into a protocol that is robust to noise. Recently, Haeupler (FOCS '14) showed that if an $\epsilon > 0$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Bernhard Haeupler , Ameya Velingker

We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Moor , Max Horn , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

Two-dimensional topological translationally-invariant (TTI) quantum codes, such as the toric code (TC) and bivariate bicycle (BB) codes, are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. For such codes to be practically…

This paper presents a new class of sparse superposition codes for low-rates and short-packet communications over the additive white Gaussian noise channel. The new code is orthogonal sparse superposition (OSS) code. A codeword of OSS codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yunseo Nam , Jeonghun Park , Songnam Hong , Namyoon Lee

Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) are bottlenecked by sequential decoding, where each new token typically requires executing all transformer layers. Existing dynamic-depth and layer-skipping methods reduce this cost, but often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hossein Rajabzadeh , Maryam Dialameh , Chul B. Park , Il-Min Kim , Hyock Ju Kwon

In this paper we propose a new efficient message passing algorithm for decoding LDPC transmitted over a channel with strong phase noise. The algorithm performs approximate bayesian inference on a factor graph representation of the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Shachar Shayovitz , Dan Raphaeli

In this paper we study the adaptive prefix coding problem in cases where the size of the input alphabet is large. We present an online prefix coding algorithm that uses $O(\sigma^{1 / \lambda + \epsilon}) $ bits of space for any constants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Travis Gagie , Marek Karpinski , Yakov Nekrich

This paper investigates variable-length stop-feedback codes for memoryless channels in point-to-point, multiple access, and random access communication scenarios. The proposed codes employ $L$ decoding times $n_1, n_2, \dots, n_L$ for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

We consider decoding of binary Tanner codes using message-passing iterative decoding and linear programming (LP) decoding in MBIOS channels. We present new certificates that are based on a combinatorial characterization for local-optimality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Nissim Halabi , Guy Even

The network communication scenario where one or more receivers request all the information transmitted by different sources is considered. We introduce distributed polynomial-time network codes in the presence of malicious nodes. Our codes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Hongyi Yao , Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Sidharth Jaggi , Tracey Ho

In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for extracting topological data from translation invariant generalized Pauli stabilizer codes in two-dimensional systems, focusing on the analysis of anyon excitations and string operators. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Zijian Liang , Yijia Xu , Joseph T. Iosue , Yu-An Chen

We investigate the performance of a random access network consisting of source-destination dipoles. The source nodes transmit information packets to their destinations over a shared spectrum. All the transmitters in this network adhere to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Howard H. Yang , Nikolaos Pappas , Tony Q. S. Quek , Martin Haenggi

Consider the task of \textit{online} vector balancing for stochastic arrivals $(X_i)_{i \in [T]}$, where the time horizon satisfies $T = \Theta(n)$, and the $X_i$ are i.i.d uniform $d$--sparse $n$--dimensional binary vectors, with $2\leq d…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dylan J. Altschuler , Konstantin Tikhomirov

This paper presents a unified analysis framework that captures recent advances in the study of local-optimality characterizations for codes on graphs. These local-optimality characterizations are based on combinatorial structures embedded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Guy Even , Nissim Halabi