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Compositional generalization is a troubling blind spot for neural language models. Recent efforts have presented techniques for improving a model's ability to encode novel combinations of known inputs, but less work has focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Matthew Setzler , Scott Howland , Lauren Phillips

We propose a list-decoding scheme for reconstruction codes in the context of uniform-tandem-duplication noise, which can be viewed as an application of the associative memory model to this setting. We find the uncertainty associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Moshe Schwartz

In this paper, we propose a simple, fast decoding algorithm that fosters diversity in neural generation. The algorithm modifies the standard beam search algorithm by adding an inter-sibling ranking penalty, favoring choosing hypotheses from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Dan Jurafsky

Although user cooperation cannot improve the capacity of Gaussian two-way channels (GTWCs) with independent noises, it can improve communication reliability. In this work, we aim to enhance and balance the communication reliability in GTWCs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , Anindya Bijoy Das , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) operate with short packets, where finite-blocklength effects make near-maximum-likelihood (near-ML) decoding desirable but often too costly. This paper proposes a two-stage near-ML decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yubeen Jo , Geon Choi , Yongjune Kim , Namyoon Lee

We consider the topic of universal decoding with a decoder that does not have direct access to the codebook, but only to noisy versions of the various randomly generated codewords, a problem motivated by biometrical identification systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Neri Merhav

Low complexity error correction code is a key enabler for next generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (xURLLC) in six generation (6G). Against this background, this paper proposes a decoding scheme for linear block code by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Di Zhang , Yinglei Yang , Zilong Liu , Shaobo Jia , Kyungchun Lee , Zhirong Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the demodulation/decoding of the complex modulations/codes that approach the Shannon capacity. Theoretically, the maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm can achieve the optimal error performance whereas it has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Boxiang He , Zitao Wu , Fanggang Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of latency and reliability trade-off in ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) in the presence of decoding complexity constraints. We consider linear block encoded codewords transmitted over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Hasan Basri Celebi , Antonios Pitarokoilis , Mikael Skoglund

Surface codes reach high error thresholds when decoded with known algorithms, but the decoding time will likely exceed the available time budget, especially for near-term implementations. To decrease the decoding time, we reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Savvas Varsamopoulos , Ben Criger , Koen Bertels

Massive machine type communication (mMTC) has attracted new coding schemes optimized for reliable short message transmission. In this paper, a novel deep learning based near-orthogonal superposition (NOS) coding scheme is proposed for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Chenghong Bian , Mingyu Yang , Chin-Wei Hsu , Hun-Seok Kim

Realizing the full potential of quantum computation requires quantum error correction (QEC), with most recent breakthrough demonstrations of QEC using the surface code. QEC codes use multiple noisy physical qubits to encode information in…

Codes are widely used in many engineering applications to offer robustness against noise. In large-scale systems there are several types of noise that can affect the performance of distributed machine learning algorithms -- straggler nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Kangwook Lee , Maximilian Lam , Ramtin Pedarsani , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed optimization methods are actively researched by optimization community. Due to applications in distributed machine learning, modern research directions include stochastic objectives, reducing communication frequency, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Trimbach Ekaterina , Rogozin Alexander

This paper presents a novel semantic-enhanced decoding scheme for transmitting natural language sentences with multiple short block codes over noisy wireless channels. After ASCII source coding, the natural language sentence message is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Hao Chang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications have stringent delay constraints, and hence use codes with small block length (short codewords). In these cases, classical models that provide good approximations to systems with infinitely long…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Nourhan Hesham , Anas Chaaban

This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to the required list size on average for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding to implement maximum-likelihood decoding over general binary memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Henry D. Pfister

Convolutional sparse coding (CSC) can learn representative shift-invariant patterns from multiple kinds of data. However, existing CSC methods can only model noises from Gaussian distribution, which is restrictive and unrealistic. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yaqing Wang , James T. Kwok , Lionel M. Ni

The synergistic mechanism based on Speculative Decoding (SD) has garnered considerable attention as a simple yet effective approach for accelerating the inference of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, the high rejection rates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chuanghao Ding , Jiaping Wang , Ziqing Yang , Xiaoliang Wang , Dahua Lin , Cam-Tu Nguyen , Fei Tan

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