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We investigate the minimum distance of structured binary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes whose parity-check matrices are of the form $[\mathbf{C} \vert \mathbf{M}]$ where $\mathbf{C}$ is circulant and of column weight $2$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 François Arnault , Philippe Gaborit , Wouter Rozendaal , Nicolas Saussay , Gilles Zémor

Constant-rate low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are promising candidates for constructing efficient fault-tolerant quantum memories. However, if physical gates are subject to geometric-locality constraints, it becomes challenging to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher A. Pattison , Anirudh Krishna , John Preskill

This paper is concerned with the design of capacity approaching ensembles of Low-Densiy Parity-Check (LDPC) codes for correlated sources. We consider correlated binary sources where the data is encoded independently at each source through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Mohamad Khas Mohamadi , Hamid Saeedi , Reza Asvadi

We establish lower bounds for the entropy of the Hard Core Model on a few 2d lattices $\scriptstyle {\rm {\bf L}}.$ In this model the allowed configurations inside $\scriptstyle \{0,1\}^{{\rm {\bf L}}}$ are the one's in which the nearest…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-22 Kari Eloranta

In this paper, we propose a new design method of irregular spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes with non-uniform degree distributions by linear programming (LP). In general, irregular SC-LDPC codes with non-uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Heeyoul Kwak , Jong-Seon No , Hosung Park

The realization of quantum error correction protocols whose logical error rates are suppressed far below physical error rates relies on an intricate combination: the error-correcting code's efficiency, the syndrome extraction circuit's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Andrey Boris Khesin , Jonathan Z. Lu

In this paper we consider the generalization of binary spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes to finite fields GF$(q)$, $q\geq 2$, and develop design rules for $q$-ary SC-LDPC code ensembles based on their iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Lai Wei , David G. M. Mitchell , Thomas E. Fuja , Daniel J. Costello

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes can achieve high encoding rates and good code distance scaling, providing a promising route to low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, the long-range connectivity required to…

Regular spatially-Coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) ensembles have gained significant interest since they were shown to universally achieve the capacity of binary memoryless channels under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Vahid Aref , Narayanan Rengaswamy , Laurent Schmalen

We consider a special family of SC-LDPC codes, that is, time-invariant LDPCC codes, which are known in the literature for a long time. Codes of this kind are usually designed by starting from QC block codes, and applying suitable unwrapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Marco Baldi , Massimo Battaglioni , Franco Chiaraluce , Giovanni Cancellieri

Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve near-optimal lossless compression by acting as powerful probability models. We investigate their use in the lossy domain, where reconstruction fidelity is traded for higher compression ratios. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nnamdi Aghanya , Jun Li , Kewei Wang

The Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model is a theoretical framework for popular parallel and distributed platforms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, or Spark. We consider the task of computing a large matching or small vertex cover in this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Krzysztof Onak

The performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes in the error floor region is closely related to some combinatorial structures of the code's Tanner graph, collectively referred to as {\it trapping sets (TSs)}. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali Dehghan , Amir H. Banihashemi

In multiparametric programming an optimization problem which is dependent on a parameter vector is solved parametrically. In control, multiparametric quadratic programming (mp-QP) problems have become increasingly important since the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Isak Nielsen , Daniel Axehill

We investigate the construction of quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from classical quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes with girth greater than or equal to 6. We have shown that the classical codes in the generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Todd A. Brun , Igor Devetak

Families of "asymptotically regular" LDPC block code ensembles can be formed by terminating (J,K)-regular protograph-based LDPC convolutional codes. By varying the termination length, we obtain a large selection of LDPC block code ensembles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael Lentmaier , David G. M. Mitchell , Gerhard P. Fettweis , Daniel J. Costello,

The recent development of deep learning methods provides a new approach to optimize the belief propagation (BP) decoding of linear codes. However, the limitation of existing works is that the scale of neural networks increases rapidly with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jincheng Dai , Kailin Tan , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Mingzhe Chen , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

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…

In a recent work, quantum locally recoverable codes (qLRCs) have been introduced for their potential application in large-scale quantum data storage and implication for quantum LDPC codes. This work focuses on the bounds and constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yang Li , Shitao Li , Huimin Lao , Gaojun Luo , San Ling

Due to their fast decoding algorithms, quantum generalizations of low-density parity check, or LDPC, codes have been investigated as a solution to the problem of decoherence in fragile quantum states. However, the additional twisted inner…

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