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We develop novel protocols for generating loss-tolerant quantum codes; these are central for safeguarding information against qubit losses, with most crucial applications in quantum communications. Contrary to current proposals, our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Francesco Cesa , Tommaso Feri , Angelo Bassi

We introduce a convergent iterative algorithm for finding the optimal coding and decoding operations for an arbitrary noisy quantum channel. This algorithm does not require any error syndrome to be corrected completely, and hence also finds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 M. Reimpell , R. F. Werner

In order to build a large scale quantum computer, one must be able to correct errors extremely fast. We design a fast decoding algorithm for topological codes to correct for Pauli errors and erasure and combination of both errors and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Nicolas Delfosse , Naomi H. Nickerson

Previous work showed that total variation superiorization (TVS) improves reconstructed image quality in proton computed tomography (pCT). The structure of the TVS algorithm has evolved since then and this work investigated if this new…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Blake Schultze , Yair Censor , Paniz Karbasi , Keith E. Schubert , Reinhard W. Schulte

A real-time polarization control system employing two nonorthogonal reference signals multiplexed in either time or wavelength with the data signal is presented. It is shown, theoretically and experimentally, that complete control of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. B. Xavier , G. Vilela de Faria , G. P. Temporao , J. P. von der Weid

Research on polar codes has been constantly gaining attention over the last decade, by academia and industry alike, thanks to their capacity-achieving error-correction performance and low-complexity decoding algorithms. Recently, they have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

The context transformation and generalized context transformation methods, we introduced recently, were able to reduce zero order entropy by exchanging digrams, and as a consequence, they were removing mutual information between consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Michal Vašinek , Jan Platoš

Current per-shot encoding schemes aim to improve the compression efficiency by shot-level optimization. It splits a source video sequence into shots and imposes optimal sets of encoding parameters to each shot. Per-shot encoding achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Hongcheng Zhong , Jun Xu , Chen Zhu , Donghui Feng , Li Song

High radiation dose in CT scans increases a lifetime risk of cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with Total Variation (TV) regularization have been developed to reconstruct CT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Tian , Xun Jia , Kehong Yuan , Tinsu Pan , Steve B. Jiang

Data synchronization is a fundamental problem with applications in diverse fields such as cloud storage, genomics, and distributed systems. This paper addresses the challenge of synchronizing two files, one of which is a subsequence of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Haolun , Ni , Lev Tauz , Ryan Gabrys , Lara Dolecek

We investigate methods to calibrate the non-common path aberrations at an adaptive optics system having a wavefront-correcting device working at an extremely high resolution (larger than 150x150). We use focal-plane images collected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Visa Korkiakoski , Christoph U. Keller , Niek Doelman , Matthew Kenworthy , Gilles Otten , Michel Verhaegen

We present a three-dimensional generalization of a renormalization group decoding algorithm for topological codes with Abelian anyonic excitations that we previously introduced for two dimensions. This 3D implementation extends our previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Guillaume Duclos-Cianci , David Poulin

Error correction codes (ECC) are crucial for ensuring reliable information transmission in communication systems. Choukroun & Wolf (2022b) recently introduced the Error Correction Code Transformer (ECCT), which has demonstrated promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Matan Levy , Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

Qudit toric codes are a natural higher-dimensional generalization of the well-studied qubit toric code. However standard methods for error correction of the qubit toric code are not applicable to them. Novel decoders are needed. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Hussain Anwar , Benjamin J. Brown , Earl T. Campbell , Dan E. Browne

We consider the problem of optimally decoding a quantum error correction code -- that is to find the optimal recovery procedure given the outcomes of partial "check" measurements on the system. In general, this problem is NP-hard. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Poulin

In a recent paper ([1]=quant-ph/0606035) it is shown how the optimal recovery operation in an error correction scheme can be considered as a semidefinite program. As a possible future improvement it is noted that still better error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Reimpell , R. F. Werner , K. Audenaert

In this work, we introduce a general, gradient-based method that optimises codewords for a given noise channel and fixed recovery. We do so by differentiating fidelity and descending on the complex coefficients using finite-difference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Manav Seksaria , Anil Prabhakar

In Analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion, signal decimation has been proven to greatly improve the efficiency of data storage while maintaining high accuracy. When one couples signal decimation with the $\Sigma\Delta$ quantization scheme, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Kung-Ching Lin

We present a linear optical protocol for teleporting and correcting both temporal and frequency errors in two time-frequency qubit states. The first state is the frequency (or time-of-arrival) cat qubit, which is a single photon in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Nicolas Fabre

In the torn paper channel, a transmitted codeword is broken at random locations into fragments that arrive at the decoder in an unordered manner. A central theoretical challenge within this model is global alignment -- the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Junsheng Liu , Netanel Raviv