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This paper provides novel insights into channel and subspace codes in nonadaptive channel sensing with a single RF chain. Observing that this problem naturally maps to a noncoherent decoding problem, we show that the sensing performance of…

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This paper presents a method to calculate the exact average block error probability of some random code ensembles under maximum-likelihood decoding. The proposed method is applicable to various channels and ensembles. The focus is on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ralf R. Müller

Approximate degradability provides a powerful framework for bounding the quantum and private capacities of noisy quantum channels in regimes where exact degradability fails. While generic low-noise channels exhibit a non-degradability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yun-Feng Lo , Yen-Chi Lee , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We consider a decoder with an erasure option and a variable size list decoder for channels with non-casual side information at the transmitter. First, universally achievable error exponents are offered for decoding with an erasure option…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Erez Sabbag , Neri Merhav

In this paper, we study the coding delay and the average coding delay of random linear network codes (dense codes) over line networks with deterministic regular and Poisson transmission schedules. We consider both lossless networks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Amir H. Banihashemi

Surface codes exploit topological protection to increase error resilience in quantum computing devices and can in principle be implemented in existing hardware. They are one of the most promising candidates for active error correction, not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Bettina Heim , Krysta M. Svore , Matthew B. Hastings

The Pearson distance has been advocated for improving the error performance of noisy channels with unknown gain and offset. The Pearson distance can only fruitfully be used for sets of $q$-ary codewords, called Pearson codes, that satisfy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jos H. Weber , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Simon R. Blackburn

Consider the asymmetric broadcast channel with a random superposition codebook, which may be comprised of constant composition or \iid codewords. By applying Forney's optimal decoder for individual messages and the message pair for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Daming Cao , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We study a discrete model of repelling particles, and we show using linear programming bounds that many familiar families of error-correcting codes minimize a broad class of potential energies when compared with all other codes of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao

Motivated by applications of rateless coding, decision feedback, and ARQ, we study the problem of universal decoding for unknown channels, in the presence of an erasure option. Specifically, we harness the competitive minimax methodology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Neri Merhav , Meir Feder

We introduce and analyze a discrete soft-decision channel called the linear reliability channel (LRC) in which the soft information is the rank ordering of the received symbol reliabilities. We prove that the LRC is an appropriate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alexander Mariona , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

Just as the Hamming weight spectrum of a linear block code sheds light on the performance of a maximum likelihood decoder, the pseudo-weight spectrum provides insight into the performance of a linear programming decoder. Using properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Panu Chaichanavong , Paul H. Siegel

We consider data transmission across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length codes with feedback. We consider the family of such codes whose rates are $\rho_N$ below the channel capacity $C$, where $\rho_N$ is a positive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We analyze the trade-off between the undetected error probability (i.e., the probability that the channel decoder outputs an erroneous message without detecting the error) and the total error probability in the short blocklength regime. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Alexander Sauter , A. Oguz Kislal , Giuseppe Durisi , Gianluigi Liva , Balazs Matuz , Erik G. Ström

The problem of finding code distance has been long studied for the generic ensembles of linear codes and led to several algorithms that substantially reduce exponential complexity of this task. However, no asymptotic complexity bounds are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ilya Dumer , Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

The binary asymmetric channel is a model for practical communication systems where the error probabilities for symbol transitions $0\rightarrow 1$ and $1\rightarrow0$ differ substantially. In this paper, we introduce the notion of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shukai Wang , Cuiling Fan , Chunming Tang , Zhengchun Zhou

We prove that a random linear code over F_q, with probability arbitrarily close to 1, is list decodable at radius (1-1/q-\epsilon) with list size L=O(1/\epsilon^2) and rate R=\Omega_q(\epsilon^2/(log^3(1/\epsilon))). Up to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ameya Velingker

A longstanding open problem in coding theory is to determine the best (asymptotic) rate $R_2(\delta)$ of binary codes with minimum constant (relative) distance $\delta$. An existential lower bound was given by Gilbert and Varshamov in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Leonardo Nagami Coregliano , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Chris Jones

We analyze gradient descent with randomly weighted data points in a linear regression model, under a generic weighting distribution. This includes various forms of stochastic gradient descent, importance sampling, but also extends to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-12 Gabriel Clara , Yazan Mash'al

The paper introduces new bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates under ML decoding of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric channels. The lower bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason