Abstract
Polar codes are widely used state-of-the-art codes for reliable communication that have recently been included in the 5th generation wireless standards (5G). However, there remains room for the design of polar decoders that are both efficient and reliable in the short blocklength regime. Motivated by recent successes of data-driven channel decoders, we introduce a novel CurRIculum based Sequential neural decoder for Polar codes (CRISP)*. We design a principled curriculum, guided by information-theoretic insights, to train CRISP and show that it outperforms the successive-cancellation (SC) decoder and attains near-optimal reliability performance on the Polar(32, 16) and Polar(64, 22) codes. The choice of the proposed curriculum is critical in achieving the accuracy gains of CRISP, as we show by comparing against other curricula. More notably, CRISP can be readily extended to Polarization-Adjusted-Convolutional (PAC) codes, where existing SC decoders are significantly less reliable. To the best of our knowledge, CRISP constructs the first data-driven decoder for PAC codes and attains near-optimal performance on the PAC(32, 16) code.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 12823-12845 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Proceedings of Machine Learning Research |
Volume | 202 |
State | Published - 2023 |
Event | 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2023 - Honolulu, United States Duration: Jul 23 2023 → Jul 29 2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Statistics and Probability