LDPC Codes Achieve List Decoding Capacity

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Main Authors: Mosheiff, Jonathan, Resch, Nicolas, Ron-Zewi, Noga, Silas, Shashwat, Wootters, Mary
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author Mosheiff, Jonathan
Resch, Nicolas
Ron-Zewi, Noga
Silas, Shashwat
Wootters, Mary
author_facet Mosheiff, Jonathan
Resch, Nicolas
Ron-Zewi, Noga
Silas, Shashwat
Wootters, Mary
contents We show that Gallager's ensemble of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes achieves list-decoding capacity with high probability. These are the first graph-based codes shown to have this property. This result opens up a potential avenue towards truly linear-time list-decodable codes that achieve list-decoding capacity. Our result on list decoding follows from a much more general result: any $\textit{local}$ property satisfied with high probability by a random linear code is also satisfied with high probability by a random LDPC code from Gallager's distribution. Local properties are properties characterized by the exclusion of small sets of codewords, and include list-decodability, list-recoverability and average-radius list-decodability. In order to prove our results on LDPC codes, we establish sharp thresholds for when local properties are satisfied by a random linear code. More precisely, we show that for any local property $\mathcal{P}$, there is some $R^*$ so that random linear codes of rate slightly less than $R^*$ satisfy $\mathcal{P}$ with high probability, while random linear codes of rate slightly more than $R^*$, with high probability, do not. We also give a characterization of the threshold rate $R^*$.
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spellingShingle LDPC Codes Achieve List Decoding Capacity
Mosheiff, Jonathan
Resch, Nicolas
Ron-Zewi, Noga
Silas, Shashwat
Wootters, Mary
Information Theory
Computational Complexity
Combinatorics
We show that Gallager's ensemble of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes achieves list-decoding capacity with high probability. These are the first graph-based codes shown to have this property. This result opens up a potential avenue towards truly linear-time list-decodable codes that achieve list-decoding capacity. Our result on list decoding follows from a much more general result: any $\textit{local}$ property satisfied with high probability by a random linear code is also satisfied with high probability by a random LDPC code from Gallager's distribution. Local properties are properties characterized by the exclusion of small sets of codewords, and include list-decodability, list-recoverability and average-radius list-decodability. In order to prove our results on LDPC codes, we establish sharp thresholds for when local properties are satisfied by a random linear code. More precisely, we show that for any local property $\mathcal{P}$, there is some $R^*$ so that random linear codes of rate slightly less than $R^*$ satisfy $\mathcal{P}$ with high probability, while random linear codes of rate slightly more than $R^*$, with high probability, do not. We also give a characterization of the threshold rate $R^*$.
title LDPC Codes Achieve List Decoding Capacity
topic Information Theory
Computational Complexity
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06430