Breaking the Computational Bottleneck: Probabilistic Optimization of High-Memory Spatially-Coupled Codes

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2022-01-01

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Yang, Siyi
Hareedy, Ahmed
Calderbank, Robert
Dolecek, Lara

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IEEESpatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications and data storage systems. SC codes are constructed by partitioning an underlying block code, followed by rearranging and concatenating the partitioned components in a convolutional manner. The number of partitioned components determines the memory of SC codes. In this paper, we investigate the relation between the performance of SC codes and the density distribution of partitioning matrices. While adopting higher memories results in improved SC code performance, obtaining finite-length, high-performance SC codes with high memory is known to be computationally challenging.We break this computational bottleneck by developing a novel probabilistic framework that obtains (locally) optimal density distributions via gradient descent. Starting from random partitioning matrices abiding by the obtained distribution, we perform low-complexity optimization algorithms that minimize the number of detrimental objects to construct high-memory, high-performance quasi-cyclic SC codes. We apply our framework to various objects of interest, from the simplest short cycles, to more sophisticated objects such as concatenated cycles aiming at finer-grained optimization. Simulation results show that codes obtained through our proposed method notably outperform state-of-the-art SC codes with the same constraint length and optimized SC codes with uniform partitioning. The performance gain is shown to be universal over a variety of channels, from canonical channels such as additive white Gaussian noise and binary symmetric channels, to practical channels underlying flash memory and magnetic recording systems.

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absorbing sets, Codes, communications, Convolutional codes, data storage, edge distribution, Flash memories, gradient descent, LDPC codes, magnetic recording, Memory management, near-optimal partitioning, Optimization, Parity check codes, Partitioning algorithms, Probabilistic logic, spatially-coupled codes

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/100163

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IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.2022.3207321

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Article

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S. Yang, A. Hareedy, R. Calderbank, and L. Dolecek, “Breaking the Computational Bottleneck: Probabilistic Optimization of High-Memory Spatially-Coupled Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85139386445&origin=inward.