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We study quantum communication in the presence of adversarial noise. In this setting, communicating with perfect fidelity requires using a quantum code of bounded minimum distance, for which the best known rates are given by the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Debbie Leung , Graeme Smith

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

List decoding for arbitrarily varying channels (AVCs) under state constraints is investigated. It is shown that rates within $\epsilon$ of the randomized coding capacity of AVCs with input-dependent state can be achieved under maximal error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Anand D. Sarwate , Michael Gastpar

We describe a successive-cancellation \emph{list} decoder for polar codes, which is a generalization of the classic successive-cancellation decoder of Ar{\i}kan. In the proposed list decoder, up to $L$ decoding paths are considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy

Clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis, essential for uncovering hidden structures within complex systems. Edge clustering, which focuses on relationships between nodes rather than the nodes themselves, has gained increased…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-14 Haomin Li , Daniel K. Sewell

The problem of channel code design for the $M$-ary input AWGN channel with additive $Q$-ary interference where the sequence of i.i.d. interference symbols is known causally at the encoder is considered. The code design criterion at high SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-13 Hamid Farmanbar , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir Keyvan Khandani

Future beyond-5G and 6G systems demand ultra-reliable, low-latency communication with short blocklengths, motivating the development of universal decoding algorithms. Guessing decoding, which infers the noise or codeword candidate in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Qianfan Wang , Jifan Liang , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard , Xiao Ma

We study the problem of universal decoding for unknown discrete memoryless channels in the presence of erasure/list option at the decoder, in the random coding regime. Specifically, we harness a universal version of Forney's classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Wasim Huleihel , Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

In this paper, the capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, affected by time-varying Wiener phase noise is investigated. Tight upper and lower bounds on the capacity of this channel are developed. The upper bound is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-22 M. Reza Khanzadi , Rajet Krishnan , Johan Söder , Thomas Eriksson

The channel capacity theorem for additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGN), widely known as the Shannon-Hartley Law, expresses the information capacity of a channel bandlimited in the conventional Fourier domain in terms of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-29 Kamalesh Kumar Sharma

We study the amplitude-constrained additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel from the perspective of near-optimal input distributions. While it is known that the capacity-achieving input is discrete with finitely many mass points, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Luca Barletta , Alex Dytso

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

This paper presents an achievability bound that evaluates the exact probability of error of an ensemble of random codes that are decoded by a minimum distance decoder. Compared to the state-of-the-art which demands exponential computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Angela Doufexi , Robert J. Piechocki

We develop several lower bounds on the capacity of binary input symmetric output channels with synchronization errors which also suffer from other types of impairments such as substitutions, erasures, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Mojtaba Rahmati , Tolga M. Duman

Varieties of noises are major problem in recognition of Electromyography (EMG) signal. Hence, methods to remove noise become most significant in EMG signal analysis. White Gaussian noise (WGN) is used to represent interference in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-12-26 Angkoon Phinyomark , Chusak Limsakul , Pornchai Phukpattaranont

This paper explores the design of convolutional codes for varying constraint lengths, focusing on their role in error correction in digital communication systems. Convolutional codes are essential in achieving reliable data transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Parag Dhounde , Avinash Bhute

We develop several analytical lower bounds on the capacity of binary insertion and deletion channels by considering independent uniformly distributed (i.u.d.) inputs and computing lower bounds on the mutual information between the input and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mojtaba Rahmati , Tolga M. Duman

We consider the problem of collaborative filtering from a channel coding perspective. We model the underlying rating matrix as a finite alphabet matrix with block constant structure. The observations are obtained from this underlying matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 S. T. Aditya , Onkar Dabeer , Bikash Kumar Dey

The capacity of multiple-input multiple-output additive white Gaussian noise channels is investigated under peak amplitude constraints on the norm of the input vector. New insights on the capacity-achieving input distribution are presented.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Antonino Favano , Marco Ferrari , Maurizio Magarini , Luca Barletta

We approach the theoretical problem of compressing a signal dominated by Gaussian noise. We present expressions for the compression ratio which can be reached, under the light of Shannon's noiseless coding theorem, for a linearly quantized…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-10-31 August Romeo , Enrique Gaztanaga , Jose Barriga , Emilio Elizalde