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The study of the generalized Hamming weight of linear codes is a significant research topic in coding theory as it conveys the structural information of the codes and determines their performance in various applications. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Chao Liu , Dabin Zheng , Wei Lu , Xiaoqiang Wang

While low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are near capacity-achieving when paired with iterative decoders, these decoders may not output a codeword due to the existence of pseudocodewords. Thus, pseudocodewords have been studied to give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wittawat Kositwattanarerk , Gretchen L. Matthews , Emily McMillon , Tunchanok Yutitumsatit

In his thesis, Wiberg showed the existence of thresholds for families of regular low-density parity-check codes under min-sum algorithm decoding. He also derived analytic bounds on these thresholds. In this paper, we formulate similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Ralf Koetter , Pascal O. Vontobel

This study investigates the problem of learning linear block codes optimized for Belief-Propagation decoders significantly improving performance compared to the state-of-the-art. Our previous research is extended with an enhanced system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Quentin Lampin , Guillaume Larue

Polar code, with explicit construction and recursive structure, is the latest breakthrough in channel coding field for its low-complexity and theoretically capacity-achieving property. Since polar codes can approach the maximum likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Fengyi Cheng , Aijun Liu , Jincheng Dai , Kai Niu , Xiaohu Liang

Whereas many results are known about thresholds for ensembles of low-density parity-check codes under message-passing iterative decoding, this is not the case for linear programming decoding. Towards closing this knowledge gap, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Pascal O. Vontobel , Ralf Koetter

We examine LDPC codes decoded using linear programming (LP). Four contributions to the LP framework are presented. First, a new method of tightening the LP relaxation, and thus improving the LP decoder, is proposed. Second, we present an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Burshtein , Idan Goldenberg

We introduce a novel algorithm for decoding binary linear codes by linear programming. We build on the LP decoding algorithm of Feldman et al. and introduce a post-processing step that solves a second linear program that reweights the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Amin Khajehnejad , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Babak Hassibi , Benjamin Vigoda , William Bradley

New lower bounds on the minimum average Hamming distance of binary codes are derived. The bounds are obtained using linear programming approach.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Beniamin Mounits

Linear programming approaches have been applied to derive upper bounds on the size of classical codes and quantum codes. In this paper, we derive similar results for general quantum codes with entanglement assistance, including nonadditive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Ching-Yi Lai , Alexei Ashikhmin

Linear codes have diverse applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computation, association schemes, strongly regular graphs, authentication codes and communication. There are a large number of linear codes with few weights…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ahmet Sınak

We define the AWGNC, BSC, and max-fractional pseudocodeword redundancy of a code as the smallest number of rows in a parity-check matrix such that the corresponding minimum pseudoweight is equal to the minimum Hamming distance. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-12 Jens Zumbragel , Mark F. Flanagan , Vitaly Skachek

The weight spectrum plays a crucial role in the performance of error-correcting codes. Despite substantial theoretical exploration of polar codes with mother code length, a framework for the weight spectrum of rate-compatible polar codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zicheng Ye , Yuan Li , Zhichao Liu , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

Studying the generalized Hamming weights of linear codes is a significant research area within coding theory, as it provides valuable structural information about the codes and plays a crucial role in determining their performance in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Wei Lu , Qingyao Wang , Xiaoqiang Wang , Dabin Zheng

Linear codes with few weights have applications in authentication codes, secrete sharing schemes, association schemes, consumer electronics and data storage system. In this paper, several classes of linear codes with two or three weights…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Guangkui Xu , Xiwang Cao

Linear programming (LP) decoding approximates maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of a linear block code by relaxing the equivalent ML integer programming (IP) problem into a more easily solved LP problem. The LP problem is defined by a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Xiaojie Zhang , Paul H. Siegel

The security of code-based cryptography relies primarily on the hardness of decoding generic linear codes. Until very recently, all the best algorithms for solving the decoding problem were information set decoders (ISD). However, recently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kévin Carrier , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Charles Meyer-Hilfiger , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We introduce a method for proving lower bounds on the efficacy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for combinatorial problems. In particular, we show that the cut, TSP, and stable set polytopes on $n$-vertex graphs are not the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-25 James R. Lee , Prasad Raghavendra , David Steurer

We present lower bounds on the minimum pseudocodeword effective Euclidean distance (or minimum "pseudodistance") for coded modulation systems using linear codes with $q$-ary phase-shift keying (PSK) modulation over the additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Vitaly Skachek , Mark F. Flanagan

The AWGNC, BSC, and max-fractional pseudocodeword redundancy of a code is defined as the smallest number of rows in a parity-check matrix such that the corresponding minimum pseudoweight is equal to the minimum Hamming distance of the code.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Jens Zumbragel , Mark F. Flanagan , Vitaly Skachek