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Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope with standard channel noise and jamming (intentional or unintentional). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Furkan Ercan , Kevin Galligan , David Starobinski , Muriel Medard , Ken R. Duffy , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

GRAND features both soft-input and hard-input variants that are well suited to efficient hardware implementations that can be characterized with achievable average and worst-case decoding latency. This paper introduces step-GRAND, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Syed Mohsin Abbas , Marwan Jalaleddine , Chi-Ying Tsui , Warren J. Gross

This paper presents a semantic-enhanced receiver framework for transmitting natural language sentences over noisy wireless channels using multiple short block codes. After ASCII encoding, the sentence is divided into segments, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding technique. Irrespective of the structure of the error correcting code, GRAND tries to guess the noise that corrupted the codeword in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Syed Mohsin Abbas , Marwan Jalaleddine , Warren J. Gross

We establish that it is possible to extract accurate blockwise and bitwise soft output from Guessing Codeword Decoding with minimal additional computational complexity by considering it as a variant of Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ken R. Duffy , Peihong Yuan , Joseph Griffin , Muriel Medard

Binary memristive crossbars have gained huge attention as an energy-efficient deep learning hardware accelerator. Nonetheless, they suffer from various noises due to the analog nature of the crossbars. To overcome such limitations, most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Youngeun Kim , Hyunsoo Kim , Seijoon Kim , Sang Joon Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

Designing a practical, low complexity, close to optimal, channel decoder for powerful algebraic codes with short to moderate block length is an open research problem. Recently it has been shown that a feed-forward neural network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Eliya Nachmani , Elad Marciano , David Burshtein , Yair Be'ery

Fault-tolerant quantum computing demands decoders that are fast, accurate, and adaptable to circuit structure and realistic noise. While machine learning (ML) decoders have demonstrated impressive performance for quantum memory, their use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides , Andi Gu , Susanne F. Yelin , Mikhail D. Lukin

We establish that during the execution of any Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm, an interpretable, useful measure of decoding confidence can be evaluated. This measure takes the form of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Medard

This work extends the generalized nearest neighbor decoding (GNND), originally developed as a receiver architecture for memoryless channels, to a vectorized GNND (Vec-GNND) suitable for in-block memory (IBM) channels. Leveraging the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuhao Liu , Xinwei Li , Shuqin Pang , Hao Wu , Wenyi Zhang

In this paper, we propose Orthogonal Generative Adversarial Networks (O-GANs). We decompose the network of discriminator orthogonally and add an extra loss into the objective of common GANs, which can enforce discriminator become an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Jianlin Su

Despite recent advances, standard sequence labeling systems often fail when processing noisy user-generated text or consuming the output of an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. In this paper, we improve the noise-aware training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Marcin Namysl , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler

We propose a novel soft-aided iterative decoding algorithm for product codes (PCs). The proposed algorithm, named iterative bounded distance decoding with combined reliability (iBDD-CR), enhances the conventional iterative bounded distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva , Alex Alvarado

We investigate the use of modern code-agnostic decoders to convert CA-SCL from an incomplete decoder to a complete one. When CA-SCL fails to identify a codeword that passes the CRC check, we apply a code-agnostic decoder that identifies a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jiewei Feng , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

We introduce a sliding window decoder based on belief propagation (BP) with guided decimation for the purposes of decoding quantum low-density parity-check codes in the presence of circuit-level noise. Windowed decoding keeps the decoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Anqi Gong , Sebastian Cammerer , Joseph M. Renes

Inspired by compressive sensing principles, we propose novel error control coding techniques for communication systems. The information bits are encoded in the support and the non-zero entries of a sparse signal. By selecting a dictionary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Madhusudan Kumar Sinha , Arun Pachai Kannu

New algorithms for efficient decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC-augmented), transmitted over either a binary erasure channel (BEC) or an additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC), are presented. We start by presenting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yonatan Urman , Guy Mogilevsky , David Burshtein

We revisit recent methods that employ graph neural networks for decoding error correcting codes and employ messages that are computed in an autoregressive manner. The outgoing messages of the variable nodes are conditioned not only on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

In this work, generalized nearest neighbor decoding (GNND), a recently proposed receiver architecture, is studied for channels under general input constellations, and multiuser uplink interference suppression is employed as a case study for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shuqin Pang , Wenyi Zhang

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the gold standard for training machine learning models with formal differential privacy guarantees. Several recent extensions improve its accuracy by introducing correlated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nikita P. Kalinin , Ryan McKenna , Rasmus Pagh , Christoph H. Lampert