Stitched Polar Codes

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Main Authors: Li, Yuan, Ye, Zicheng, Zhang, Huazi, Wang, Jun, Tong, Wen, Yan, Guiying, Ma, Zhiming
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Published: 2025
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author Li, Yuan
Ye, Zicheng
Zhang, Huazi
Wang, Jun
Tong, Wen
Yan, Guiying
Ma, Zhiming
author_facet Li, Yuan
Ye, Zicheng
Zhang, Huazi
Wang, Jun
Tong, Wen
Yan, Guiying
Ma, Zhiming
contents In this paper, we introduce stitched polar codes, a novel generalization of Arıkan's regular polar codes. Our core methodology reconfigures the fundamental polarization process by stitching additional structures to enhance the reliability of less reliable information bits in the original code. This approach preserves the polar transformation structure and maintains the same encoding and decoding complexity. Thanks to the flexible configuration, stitched polar codes consistently outperform regular polar codes, effectively solving the performance degradation issue in rate-matched scenarios. Furthermore, we provide theoretical analysis on the weight spectrum and the polarization speed of stitched polar codes to prove their superiority.
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spellingShingle Stitched Polar Codes
Li, Yuan
Ye, Zicheng
Zhang, Huazi
Wang, Jun
Tong, Wen
Yan, Guiying
Ma, Zhiming
Information Theory
In this paper, we introduce stitched polar codes, a novel generalization of Arıkan's regular polar codes. Our core methodology reconfigures the fundamental polarization process by stitching additional structures to enhance the reliability of less reliable information bits in the original code. This approach preserves the polar transformation structure and maintains the same encoding and decoding complexity. Thanks to the flexible configuration, stitched polar codes consistently outperform regular polar codes, effectively solving the performance degradation issue in rate-matched scenarios. Furthermore, we provide theoretical analysis on the weight spectrum and the polarization speed of stitched polar codes to prove their superiority.
title Stitched Polar Codes
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19249