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most citedImproved Soft-aided Decoding of Product Codes with Dynamic Reliability Scores

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cs.IT2026

High-Rate Quasi-Dyadic Quantum LDPC Codes

Alessio Baldelli, Sisi Miao, Laurent Schmalen +2

In this work, we propose a novel design of high-rate Calderbank--Shor--Steane (CSS) quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes based on quasi-dyadic matrices. The Tanner graphs…

cs.IT2026

Low-Complexity Soft-Aided Error-and-Erasure Decoding for Generalized Product Codes

Sisi Miao, Laurent Schmalen

Generalized product codes (GPCs) combine excellent high-rate performance with low-complexity hardware implementations. We propose the refined dynamic reliability score decoder (\ac…

cs.IT2026

Affine Subcode Ensemble Decoding for Degeneracy-Aware Quantum Error Correction

Leo Wursthorn, Jonathan Mandelbaum, Sisi Miao +4

Quantum low-density parity-check codes are promising candidates for low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computing, but degeneracy is known to impair the convergence of belief-propa…

cs.IT2026

Improved Chase-Pyndiah Decoding for Product Codes with Scaled Messages

Sisi Miao, Mert Birincioglu, Laurent Schmalen

We propose an enhanced Chase-Pyndiah decoder that scales extrinsic messages based on decoder confidence of the component decoder, achieving a 0.1 dB gain over the original with neg…

cs.IT2026

Towards a Unified Coding Scheme for 6G

Paul Bezner, Erdem Eray Cil, Jannis Clausius +14

The growing demand for higher data rates necessitates continuous innovations in wireless communication systems, particularly with the emergence of 6G. Channel coding plays a crucia…

cs.IT2026

Quantum CSS LDPC Codes based on Dyadic Matrices for Belief Propagation-based Decoding

Alessio Baldelli, Massimo Battaglioni, Jonathan Mandelbaum +2

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes provide a practical balance between error-correction capability and implementation complexity in quantum error correction (QEC). In t…

cs.IT2025

On the Error Rate of Binary BCH Codes under Error-and-erasure Decoding

Sisi Miao, Jonathan Mandelbaum, Holger Jäkel +1

Determining the exact decoding error probability of linear block codes is an interesting problem. For binary BCH codes, McEliece derived methods to estimate the error probability o…

cs.IT2025

High Girth Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes with Hierarchical Structure

Haizheng Li, Sisi Miao, Laurent Schmalen

Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes with a simple construction facilitating hardware implementation while achieving excellent performa…

eess.SP2024

Spiking Neural Belief Propagation Decoder for Short Block Length LDPC Codes

Alexander von Bank, Eike-Manuel Edelmann, Sisi Miao +2

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are neural networks that enable energy-efficient signal processing due to their event-based nature. This paper proposes a novel decoding algorithm fo…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Improved Generalized Automorphism Belief Propagation Decoding

Jonathan Mandelbaum, Sisi Miao, Nils Albert Schwendemann +2

With the increasing demands on future wireless systems, new design objectives become eminent. Low-density parity-check codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding have out…

cs.IT2024

Optimized Soft-Aided Decoding of OFEC and Staircase Codes

Lukas Rapp, Sisi Miao, Laurent Schmalen

We propose a novel soft-aided hard-decision decoding algorithm for general product-like codes. It achieves error correcting performance similar to that of a soft-decision turbo dec…

cs.IT2024

Endomorphisms of Linear Block Codes

Jonathan Mandelbaum, Sisi Miao, Holger Jäkel +1

The automorphism groups of various linear codes are extensively studied yielding insights into the respective code structure. This knowledge is used in, e.g., theoretical analysis…

cs.IT2024

Performance Analysis of Generalized Product Codes with Irregular Degree Distribution

Sisi Miao, Jonathan Mandelbaum, Lukas Rapp +2

This paper investigates the theoretical analysis of intrinsic message passing decoding for generalized product codes (GPCs) with irregular degree distributions, a generalization of…

cs.IT2024

A Joint Code and Belief Propagation Decoder Design for Quantum LDPC Codes

Sisi Miao, Jonathan Mandelbaum, Holger Jäkel +1

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are among the most promising candidates for future quantum error correction schemes. However, a limited number of short to moderate-l…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Quaternary Neural Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes with Overcomplete Check Matrices

Sisi Miao, Alexander Schnerring, Haizheng Li +1

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are promising candidates for error correction in quantum computers. One of the major challenges in implementing QLDPC codes in quantu…

cs.IT2022

Neural Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes Using Overcomplete Check Matrices

Sisi Miao, Alexander Schnerring, Haizheng Li +1

The recent success in constructing asymptotically good quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes makes this family of codes a promising candidate for error-correcting schemes…

cs.IT2022

Improved Soft-aided Decoding of Product Codes with Adaptive Performance-Complexity Trade-off

Sisi Miao, Lukas Rapp, Laurent Schmalen

We propose an improved soft-aided decoding scheme for product codes that approaches the decoding performance of conventional soft-decision TPD with only a 0.2 dB gap while keeping…

cs.IT2022★ 16 cited

Improved Soft-aided Decoding of Product Codes with Dynamic Reliability Scores

Sisi Miao, Lukas Rapp, Laurent Schmalen

Products codes (PCs) are conventionally decoded with efficient iterative bounded-distance decoding (iBDD) based on hard-decision channel outputs which entails a performance loss co…

cs.IT2022

Error-and-erasure Decoding of Product and Staircase Codes with Simplified Extrinsic Message Passing

Sisi Miao, Lukas Rapp, Laurent Schmalen

The decoding performance of product codes and staircase codes based on iterative bounded-distance decoding (iBDD) can be improved with the aid of a moderate amount of soft informat…

cs.IT2021★ 2 cited

Improved Soft-aided Error-and-erasure Decoding of Product Codes with Dynamic Reliability Scores

Sisi Miao, Lukas Rapp, Laurent Schmalen

We propose a novel soft-aided low-complexity decoder for product codes based on dynamic reliability scores and error-and-erasure decoding. We observe coding gains of up to 1.2 dB c…