2023/01/28 by Vukan Ninković, Dejan Vukobratović, Ninkovic, Vukan +7
Computer Science · Engineering · #Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design #Error Correcting Code Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2301.12231
openalex publication_date 2023/01/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Most of today's communication systems are designed to target reliable message recovery after receiving the entire encoded message (codeword). However, in many practical scenarios, the transmission process may be interrupted before receiving the complete codeword. This paper proposes a novel rateless autoencoder (AE)-based code design suitable for decoding the transmitted message before the noisy codeword is fully received. Using particular dropout strategies applied during the training process, rateless AE codes allow to trade off between decoding delay and reliability, providing a graceful improvement of the latter with each additionally received codeword symbol. The proposed rateless AEs significantly outperform the conventional AE designs for scenarios where it is desirable to trade off reliability for lower decoding delay.