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In this paper, we propose a finite alphabet message passing algorithm for LDPC codes that replaces the standard min-sum variable node update rule by a mapping based on generic look-up tables. This mapping is designed in a way that maximizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Michael Meidlinger , Reza Ghanaatian , Gerald Matz , Andreas Burg

We consider spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes with finite smoothing parameters. A finite smoothing parameter is important for designing practical codes that are decoded using low-complexity windowed decoders. By optimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Laurent Schmalen , Vahid Aref , Fanny Jardel

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

In this study, we investigate the characteristics of scheduling sequences that enable efficient decoding of generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes under the layered message-passing algorithm. In particular, we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qingqing Peng , Dongxu Chang , Guiying Yan , Guanghui Wang

The decoding throughput in the postprocessing is one of the bottlenecks for a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system. In this paper, we propose a layered decoder to decode quasi-cyclic multi-edge type LDPC (QC-METLDPC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Yang Li , Xiaofang Zhang , Yong Li , Bingjie Xu , Li Ma , Jie Yang , Wei Huang

In this paper, we study a compute-and-forward (CAF) relaying scheme with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, a special case of physical layer network coding, under the quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation. The novelty of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Satoshi Takabe , Tadashi Wadayama , Ángeles Vazquez-Castro , Masahito Hayashi

Decoders for quantum LDPC codes generally rely on solving a parity-check equation with Gaussian elimination, with the generalised union-find decoder performing this repeatedly on growing clusters. We present an online variant of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Sam J. Griffiths , Asmae Benhemou , Dan E. Browne

In this paper, we propose a finite-precision decoding method that features the three steps of Reconstruction, Computation, and Quantization (RCQ). Unlike Mutual-Information-Maximization Quantized Belief Propagation (MIM-QBP), RCQ can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Linfang Wang , Maximilian Stark , Richard D. Wesel , Gerhard Bauch

Decoders that provide an estimate of the probability of a logical failure conditioned on the error syndrome ("soft-output decoders") can reduce the overhead cost of fault-tolerant quantum memory and computation. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Nadine Meister , Christopher A. Pattison , John Preskill

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to sample random sparse matrices to be used as check matrices for quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. To ease the treatment, we mainly describe our algorithm as a technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Paolo Santini

The design of optimal linear block codes capable of being efficiently decoded is of major concern, especially for short block lengths. As near capacity-approaching codes, Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes possess several advantages over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

This paper proposes a new iterative gradient descent decoding method for real number parity codes. The proposed decoder, named Gradient Descent Symbol Update (GDSU), is used for a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) real-number codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Oana Boncalo , Alexandru Amaricai

In this paper we propose the construction of Spatially Coupled Low-Density Parity-Check (SC-LDPC) codes using a periodic time-variant Quasi-Cyclic (QC) algorithm. The QC based approach is optimized to obtain memory efficiency in storing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Vikram Arkalgud Chandrasetty , Sarah J. Johnson , Gottfried Lechner

In this paper, we report an encoding and decoding method for irregular-quasic-cyclic low-density parity-check (IR-QC-LDPC) codes with multi rates. The algorithm is applicable to parity-check matrices which have dual-diagonal parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kun Cheng , Qiming Lu , Hongbo Xie , Qi Shen , Shengkai Liao , Chengzhi Peng

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been successfully commercialized in communication systems due to their strong error correction capabilities and simple decoding process. However, the error-floor phenomenon of LDPC codes, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hee-Youl Kwak , Dae-Young Yun , Yongjune Kim , Sang-Hyo Kim , Jong-Seon No

In this paper, we propose a novel message-passing decoding approach that leverages the degeneracy of quantum low-density parity-check codes to enhance decoding performance, eliminating the need for serial scheduling or post-processing. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Dimitris Chytas , Nithin Raveendran , Bane Vasic

Decoding of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes can be viewed as a special case of XOR-SAT problems, for which low-computational complexity bit-flipping algorithms have been proposed in the literature. However, a performance gap exists…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ankita Nandi , Shantanu Chakrabartty , Chetan Singh Thakur

Linear programming (LP) relaxation is a standard technique for solving hard combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. Here we present a gradient descent algorithm which exploits the special structure of some LP relaxations induced by CO…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Alexey Antonov

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) can eliminate the negative effects of quantum noise, the major obstacle to the execution of quantum algorithms. However, realizing practical quantum error correction (QEC) requires resolving many…

Ordered statistics decoding has been instrumental in addressing decoding failures that persist after normalized min-sum decoding in short low-density parity-check codes. Despite its benefits, the high computational complexity of effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu