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We present a deep, fully convolutional neural network that learns to route a circuit layout net with appropriate choice of metal tracks and wire class combinations. Inputs to the network are the encoded layouts containing spatial location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Sambhav R. Jain , Kye Okabe

Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) demand decoding algorithms that simultaneously offer high reliability and low complexity under stringent latency constraints. While iterative decoding schemes for LDPC and Polar codes offer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Enrico Testi , Enrico Paolini

Circuit discovery aims to identify minimal subnetworks that are responsible for specific behaviors in large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches primarily rely on iterative edge pruning, which is computationally expensive and limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Muhammad Umair Haider , Hammad Rizwan , Hassan Sajjad , A. B. Siddique

Distributed optimization has become the default training paradigm in modern machine learning due to the growing scale of models and datasets. To mitigate communication overhead, local updates are often applied before global aggregation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Su Hyeong Lee , Manzil Zaheer , Tian Li

Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes were recently proposed and arouse the interest of the channel coding community because they were shown to approach theoretical bounds for the (128,64) code size. In this letter, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

We derive Singleton-type bounds on the free distance and column distances of trellis codes. Our results show that, at a given time instant, the maximum attainable column distance of trellis codes can exceed that of convolutional codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yubin Zhu , Zitan Chen

We study polynomial-time approximation algorithms for (edge/vertex) Sparsest Cut and Small Set Expansion in terms of $k$, the number of edges or vertices cut in the optimal solution. Our main results are $\mathcal{O}(\text{polylog}\,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Aditya Anand , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Parameter recovering of channel codes is important in applications such as cognitive radio. The main task for that of a turbo code is to recover the interleaver. The existing optimal algorithm recovers interleaver parameters incrementally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Peidong Yu , Hua Peng , Jing Li

Motivated by the need to communicate short control messages in 5G and beyond, this paper carefully designs codes for cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided list decoding of tail-biting convolutional codes (TBCCs) and polar codes. Both codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jacob King , Hanwen Yao , William Ryan , Richard D. Wesel

We consider the Additive White Gaussian Noise channel with Binary Phase Shift Keying modulation. Our aim is to enable an algebraic hard decision Bounded Minimum Distance decoder for a binary block code to exploit soft information obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Christian Senger , Vladimir Sidorenko , Victor Zyablov

Recursive list decoding of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, with moderate list size, is known to approach maximum-likelihood (ML) performance of short length $(\leq 256)$ RM codes. Recursive decoding employs the Plotkin construction to split the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mikhail Kamenev

We consider the following geometric optimization problem: Given $ n $ axis-aligned rectangles in the plane, the goal is to find a set of horizontal segments of minimum total length such that each rectangle is stabbed. A segment stabs a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Martina Gallato , Ola Svensson , Moritz Venzin

The typical approach for recovery of spatially correlated signals is regularized least squares with a coupled regularization term. In the Bayesian framework, this algorithm is seen as a maximum-a-posterior estimator whose postulated prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ali Bereyhi , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Ralf R. Müller

This paper presents a puncturing technique to design length-compatible polar codes. The punctured bits are identified with the help of differential evolution (DE). A DE-based optimization framework is developed where the sum of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Kuntal Deka , Sanjeev Sharma

We study the task of smoothing a circuit, i.e., ensuring that all children of a plus-gate mention the same variables. Circuits serve as the building blocks of state-of-the-art inference algorithms on discrete probabilistic graphical models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Andy Shih , Guy Van den Broeck , Paul Beame , Antoine Amarilli

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)-like systems employ differentially encoded (DE) phase-shift keying (PSK) for transmission. While turbo-DE-PSK receivers offer substantial performance gains through iterative decoding by making the DE-PSK an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Chin-Hung Chen , Yan Wu , Wim van Houtum , Alex Alvarado

BiD codes, which are a new family of algebraic codes of length $3^m$, achieve the erasure channel capacity under bit-MAP decoding and offer asymptotically larger minimum distance than Reed-Muller (RM) codes. In this paper we propose fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Devansh Jain , Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan

Recovery error bounds of tail-minimization and the rate of convergence of an efficient proximal alternating algorithm for sparse signal recovery are considered in this article. Tail-minimization focuses on minimizing the energy in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Meng Huang , Shidong Li

The class of 1-generator quasi-abelian codes over finite fields is revisited. Alternative and explicit characterization and enumeration of such codes are given. An algorithm to find all 1-generator quasi-abelian codes is provided. Two…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Somphong Jitman , Patanee Udomkavanich

We demonstrate a decoding scheme for nested lattice codes which is able to decode a list of a particular size which contains the transmitted codeword with high probability. This list decoder is analogous to that used in random coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Yiwei Song , Natasha Devroye