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Recently, neural networks have improved MinSum message-passing decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes by multiplying or adding weights to the messages, where the weights are determined by a neural network. The neural network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Linfang Wang , Caleb Terrill , Richard Wesel , Dariush Divsalar

In this paper, we propose a non-binary belief propagation approach (NB-BP) for detection of $M$-ary modulation symbols and decoding of $q$-ary LDPC codes in large-scale multiuser MIMO systems. We first propose a message passing based symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 T. Lakshmi Narasimhan , A. Chockalingam

We introduce a novel universal soft-decision decoding algorithm for binary block codes called ordered reliability direct error pattern testing (ORDEPT). Our results, obtained for a variety of popular short high-rate codes, demonstrate that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Reza Hadavian , Xiaoting Huang , Dmitri Truhachev , Kamal El-Sankary , Hamid Ebrahimzad , Hossein Najafi

When binary linear error-correcting codes are used over symmetric channels, a relaxed version of the maximum likelihood decoding problem can be stated as a linear program (LP). This LP decoder can be used to decode error-correcting codes at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Siddharth Barman , Xishuo Liu , Stark C. Draper , Benjamin Recht

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

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are among the most promising candidates for future quantum error correction schemes. However, a limited number of short to moderate-length QLDPC codes have been designed and their decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sisi Miao , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

The weighted-Hamming metric generalizes the Hamming metric by assigning different weights to blocks of coordinates. It is well-suited for applications such as coding over independent parallel channels, each of which has a different level of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

This paper presents a novel propagation (BP) based decoding algorithm for polar codes. The proposed algorithm facilitates belief propagation by utilizing the specific constituent codes that exist in the factor graph, which results in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Jingwei Xu , Tiben Che , Gwan Choi

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

This paper investigates decoder diversity architectures for short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, based on recurrent neural network (RNN) models of the belief-propagation (BP) algorithm. We propose a new approach to achieve decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Joachim Rosseel , Valérian Mannoni , Inbar Fijalkow , Valentin Savin

We present a novel optimization-based decoding algorithm for LDPC codes that is suitable for hardware architectures specialized to feed-forward neural networks. The algorithm is based on the projected gradient descent algorithm with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Tadashi Wadayama , Satoshi Takabe

Polar codes have drawn much attention and been adopted in 5G New Radio (NR) due to their capacity-achieving performance. Recently, as the emerging deep learning (DL) technique has breakthrough achievements in many fields, neural network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-05 Chieh-Fang Teng , Chen-Hsi Wu , Kuan-Shiuan Ho , An-Yeu Wu

Belief propagation (BP) algorithm is a widely used message-passing method for inference in graphical models. BP on loop-free graphs converges in linear time. But for graphs with loops, BP's performance is uncertain, and the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Dong Liu , Minh Thành Vu , Zuxing Li , Lars K. Rasmussen

Message-passing algorithms based on the Belief Propagation (BP) equations constitute a well-known distributed computational scheme. It is exact on tree-like graphical models and has also proven to be effective in many problems defined on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Carlo Lucibello , Fabrizio Pittorino , Gabriele Perugini , Riccardo Zecchina

Learned neural solvers have successfully been used to solve combinatorial optimization and decision problems. More general counting variants of these problems, however, are still largely solved with hand-crafted solvers. To bridge this gap,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Jonathan Kuck , Shuvam Chakraborty , Hao Tang , Rachel Luo , Jiaming Song , Ashish Sabharwal , Stefano Ermon

Polar codes are a channel coding scheme for the next generation of wireless communications standard (5G). The belief propagation (BP) decoder allows for parallel decoding of polar codes, making it suitable for high throughput applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Nghia Doan , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

One of the challenges often faced with wireless communication systems is its limited range and data-rate. Distributed Transmit Beamforming (DTB) techniques are being developed to address these two issues to provide reliable connectivity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-18 Ismail Shakeel , Ishtiaq Ahmad , Hajime Suzuki

We study the decoding problem for quantum Tanner codes and propose to exploit the underlying local code structure by grouping check nodes into more powerful generalized check nodes for enhanced iterative belief propagation (BP) decoding by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Olai Å. Mostad , Eirik Rosnes , Hsuan-Yin Lin

Error correcting codes play a central role in digital communication, ensuring that transmitted information can be accurately reconstructed despite channel impairments. Recently, autoencoder (AE) based approaches have gained attention for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

In this paper, we present a sparse neural network decoder (SNND) of polar codes based on belief propagation (BP) and deep learning. At first, the conventional factor graph of polar BP decoding is converted to the bipartite Tanner graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Weihong Xu , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang , Yair Be'ery