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Status: Unchecked ×Topic: Error Correcting Code Techniques ×Clear all

4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Error Correcting Code Techniques

   Low-density parity-check codes

   Mézard and A · 2009

   A chapter introduces LDPC code ensembles built from random factor graphs and derives bounds on their performance under optimal decoding, using the geometry of their codebooks.

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   1. UncheckedSuitably chosen LDPC code ensembles can, under optimal decoding, communicate reliably at rates close to Shannon's capacity.“In particular, it shows that appropriately chosen LDPC ensembles allow for communication reliably at rates close to Shannon's capacity.”

2. Computer Science › Error Correcting Code Techniques

   Approaching the Rate-Distortion Limit with Spatial Coupling, Belief propagation and Decimation

   Aref, Macris and Vuffray · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

   The paper studies lossy compression of a binary symmetric source with spatially coupled sparse codes and a simple decoder-like encoder, and links its performance to phase transitions found with spin glass methods.

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   1. UncheckedIn this lossy compression scheme, the practical encoder's rate-distortion curve gets closer to the ensemble's optimal curve as the coupling window widens.“The algorithmic rate-distortion curve approaches the optimal curve of the ensemble as the width of the coupling window grows.”
   2. UncheckedIn spatially coupled lossy-compression codes, the dynamical temperature approaches the condensation temperature, which nears the Shannon noise level at large degrees.“We observe that: (i) the dynamical temperature of the spatially coupled construction saturates towards the condensation temperature; (ii) for large degrees the condensation temperature approaches the temperature (i.e. noise level) related to the information theoretic Shannon test-channel noise para…”
   3. UncheckedAs the check degree rises, both the algorithm's and the ensemble's rate-distortion curves approach the Shannon limit for this lossy compression scheme.“Moreover, as the check degree grows both curves approach the ultimate Shannon rate-distortion limit.”