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We propose a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based decoder for quantum topological codes and apply it to enhance a quantum teleportation protocol under depolarizing noise. By constructing and training the GAN's generator and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jiaxin Li , Zhimin Wang , Alberto Ferrara , Yongjian Gu , Rosario Lo Franco

We propose a Semantic Ordered Statistics Decoder (sem-OSD), a soft decoder for short linear block codes carrying byte-streamed sources such as natural-language text. Sem-OSD injects a byte-level language-model (LM) prior into ordered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chentao Yue , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

We introduce sequential and parallel decoders for quantum Tanner codes. When the Tanner code construction is applied to a sufficiently expanding square complex with robust local codes, we obtain a family of asymptotically good quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Anthony Leverrier , Gilles Zémor

We introduce and analyse an efficient decoder for the quantum Tanner codes of that can correct adversarial errors of linear weight. Previous decoders for quantum low-density parity-check codes could only handle adversarial errors of weight…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Anthony Leverrier , Gilles Zémor

CRC codes have long since been adopted in a vast range of applications. The established notion that they are suitable primarily for error detection can be set aside through use of the recently proposed Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Wei An , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

We show that belief propagation combined with ordered statistics post-processing is a general decoder for quantum low density parity check codes constructed from the hypergraph product. To this end, we run numerical simulations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Joschka Roffe , David R. White , Simon Burton , Earl T. Campbell

Different choices of quantum error-correcting codes can reduce the demands on the physical hardware needed to build a quantum computer. To achieve the full potential of a code, we must develop practical decoding algorithms that can correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik , Benjamin J. Brown

Decoding quantum error-correcting codes is a key challenge in enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation. In the classical setting, linear programming (LP) decoders offer provable performance guarantees and can leverage fast practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Shouzhen Gu , Mehdi Soleimanifar

Quantum errors are primarily detected and corrected using the measurement of syndrome information which itself is an unreliable step in practical error correction implementations. Typically, such faulty or noisy syndrome measurements are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Nithin Raveendran , Narayanan Rengaswamy , Asit Kumar Pradhan , Bane Vasić

Optimal modulation (OM) schemes for Gaussian channels with peak and average power constraints are known to require nonuniform probability distributions over signal points, which presents practical challenges. An established way to map…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Basak Ozaydin , Muriel Médard , Ken Duffy

Belief Propagation (BP) followed by Ordered Statistics Decoding (OSD) has emerged as the gold standard for decoding quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes. Recent advancements in this field have proposed new methods and algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Michele Banfi , Marco Ferrari , Antonino Favano , Alberto Tarable , Luca Barletta

The performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) is known to be limited by the presence of certain sub-graphs that exist in the Tanner graph representation of the code, for example trapping sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Homayoon Hatami , David G. M. Mitchell , Daniel J. Costello , Thomas E. Fuja

Quantum low-density parity-check codes are promising candidates for low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computing, but degeneracy is known to impair the convergence of belief-propagation (BP) decoding of these codes. In this work, we show…

Polar codes are able to achieve the capacity of memoryless channels under successive cancellation (SC) decoding. Soft Cancellation (SCAN) is a soft-output decoder based on the SC schedule, useful in iterative decoding and concatenation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Charles Pillet , Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio

Recently, a parallel decoding framework of $G_N$-coset codes was proposed. High throughput is achieved by decoding the independent component polar codes in parallel. Various algorithms can be employed to decode these component codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Xianbin Wang , Jiajie Tong , Huazi Zhang , Shengchen Dai , Rong Li , Jun Wang

This paper is concerned with a guessing codeword decoding (GCD) of linear block codes. Compared with the guessing noise decoding (GND), which is only efficient for high-rate codes, the GCD is efficient for not only high-rate codes but also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xiangping Zheng , Xiao Ma

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…

We propose a scalable decoding framework for correcting correlated hook errors in stabilizer measurement circuits. Traditional circuit-level decoding attempts to estimate the precise location of faults by constructing an extended Tanner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Michele Pacenti , Asit K. Pradhan , Shantom K. Borah , Bane Vasic

In this paper, we investigate the use of quaternary reliability statistics for ordered statistics decoding (OSD) of quantum codes. OSD can be used to improve the performance of belief propagation (BP) decoding when it fails to correct the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ching-Feng Kung , Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai

Quantum error correction promises a viable path to fault-tolerant computations, enabling exponential error suppression when the device's error rates remain below the protocol's threshold. This threshold, however, strongly depends on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Maurice D. Hanisch , Bence Hetényi , James R. Wootton