Lower Bounds on List Decoding Capacity using Error Exponents

Zhang, Yihan and Vatedka, Shashank (2022) Lower Bounds on List Decoding Capacity using Error Exponents. In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022, 26 June 2022 through 1 July 2022, Espoo.

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Abstract

We study the problem of characterizing the maximal rates of list decoding in Euclidean spaces for finite list sizes. For any positive integer L ≥ 2 and real N > 0, we say that a subset C ⊂ Rn is an (N,L - 1)-multiple packing or an (N,L- 1)-list decodable code if every Euclidean ball of radius √ nN in ℝn contains no more than L - 1 points of C. We study this problem with and without ℓ2 norm constraints on C, and derive the best-known lower bounds on the maximal rate for (N,L-1) multiple packing. Our bounds are obtained via error exponents for list decoding over Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels. We establish a curious inequality which relates the error exponent, a quantity of average-case nature, to the list-decoding radius, a quantity of worst-case nature. We derive various bounds on the error exponent for list decoding in both bounded and unbounded settings which could be of independent interest beyond multiple packing. © 2022 IEEE.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Vatedka, Shashank	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-9392

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Additional Information:

YZ has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 682203-ERC-[Inf-Speed-Tradeoff]. The work of SV was supported by a seed grant from IIT Hyderabad and SRG/2020/000910 by SERB (DST), India.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Error exponent; Euclidean; Euclidean spaces; List decoding capacities; List-decodable codes; List-decoding; Low bound; Maximal rates; Multiple packings; Positive integers

Subjects:

Electrical Engineering

Divisions:

Department of Electrical Engineering

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

02 Sep 2022 04:56

Last Modified:

02 Sep 2022 04:56

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/10387