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Generalized bicycle (GB) codes have emerged as a promising class of quantum error-correcting codes with practical decoding capabilities. While numerous asymptotically good quantum codes and quantum low-density parity-check code…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Olai Å. Mostad , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , De-Shih Lee , Ching-Yi Lai

We formulate maximum likelihood (ML) channel decoding as a quadratic unconstraint binary optimization (QUBO) and simulate the decoding by the current commercial quantum annealing machine, D-Wave 2000Q. We prepared two implementations with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Naoki Ide , Tetsuya Asayama , Hiroshi Ueno , Masayuki Ohzeki

In this work, we consider the problem of reduced latency of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with iterative detection and decoding (IDD) receiver in multiuser multiple-antenna systems. The proposed knowledge-aided IDD (KA-IDD) system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 P. Li , R. C. de Lamare , J. Liu

We introduce a "hyperbicycle" ansatz for quantum codes which gives the hypergraph-product (generalized toric) codes by Tillich and Z\'emor and generalized bicycle codes by MacKay et al. as limiting cases. The construction allows for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

Erasure qubits reduce overhead in fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC) by converting dominant faults into detectable errors known as erasures. They have demonstrated notable improvements in thresholds and scaling in surface and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ameya S. Bhave , Navnil Choudhury , Andrew Nemec , Kanad Basu

This study investigates the problem of learning linear block codes optimized for Belief-Propagation decoders significantly improving performance compared to the state-of-the-art. Our previous research is extended with an enhanced system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Quentin Lampin , Guillaume Larue

Quantum error correction (QEC) is a cornerstone of quantum computing, enabling reliable information processing in the presence of noise. Sparse stabilizer codes -- referred to generally as quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Bane Vasic , Valentin Savin , Michele Pacenti , Shantom Borah , Nithin Raveendran

In this paper, we report an encoding and decoding method for irregular-quasic-cyclic low-density parity-check (IR-QC-LDPC) codes with multi rates. The algorithm is applicable to parity-check matrices which have dual-diagonal parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kun Cheng , Qiming Lu , Hongbo Xie , Qi Shen , Shengkai Liao , Chengzhi Peng

We consider near maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of short linear block codes based on neural belief propagation (BP) decoding recently introduced by Nachmani et al.. While this method significantly outperforms conventional BP decoding, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Andreas Buchberger , Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Laurent Schmalen , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We propose fault-tolerant encoders for quantum low-density parity check (LDPC) codes. By grouping qubits within a quantum code over contiguous blocks and applying preshared entanglement across these blocks, we show how transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Abhi Kumar Sharma , Shayan Srinivasa Garani

We solve the problem of designing powerful low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding for the block-fading channel. We first study the case of maximum-likelihood decoding, and show that the design criterion is rather…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Joseph J. Boutros , Albert Guillen i Fabregas , Ezio Biglieri , Gilles Zemor

In this paper, we consider how to partition the parity-check matrices (PCMs) to reduce the hardware complexity and computation delay for the row layered decoding of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes. First, we formulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Teng Lu , Xuan He , Peng Kang , Jiongyue Xing , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper, we propose a new class of bit flipping algorithms for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the binary symmetric channel (BSC). Compared to the regular (parallel or serial) bit flipping algorithms, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dung Viet Nguyen , Bane Vasic , Michael W. Marcellin

An algorithm for constructing parity-check matrices of non-binary quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (NB QC-LDPC) codes is proposed. The algorithm finds short cycles in the base matrix and tries to eliminate them by selecting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Stanislav Kruglik , Valeriya Potapova , Alexey Frolov

Belief propagation (BP) is an iterative decoding algorithm for polar codes which can be parallelized effectively to achieve higher throughput. However, because of the presence of error floor due to cycles and stopping sets in the factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

We propose a quantized decoding algorithm for low- density parity-check codes where the variable node update rule of the standard min-sum algorithm is replaced with a look-up table (LUT) that is designed using an information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Michael Meidlinger , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg , Gerald Matz

Bit-flipping (BF) decoding of low-density parity-check codes is of low complexity but gives inferior performance in general. To improve performance and provide new BF decoder options for complexity-performance tradeoffs, we propose new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Tofar C. -Y. Chang , Yu T. Su

This paper explores the application of reinforcement learning techniques to enhance the performance of decoding of linear block codes based on flipping bits and finding optimal decisions. We describe the methodology for mapping the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Milad Taghipour , Bane Vasic

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are a promising construction for drastically reducing the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) architectures. However, all of the known hardware implementations of these codes…

Codes based on sparse matrices have good performance and can be efficiently decoded by belief-propagation (BP). Decoding binary stabilizer codes needs a quaternary BP for (additive) codes over GF(4), which has a higher check-node complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai