Publications by Rüdiger Urbanke

Federated One-Shot Learning with Data Privacy and Objective-Hiding

Privacy in federated learning is crucial, encompassing two key aspects: safeguarding the privacy of clients' data and maintaining the privacy of the federator's objective from the clients. While the first aspect has been extensively studied, the second has ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

On the Efficiency of Polar-Like Decoding for Symmetric Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

The recently introduced polar codes constitute a breakthrough in coding theory due to their capacity-achieving property. This goes hand in hand with a quasilinear construction, encoding, and successive cancellation list decoding procedures based on the Plo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Polar Codes Do Not Have Many Affine Automorphisms

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

Polar coding solutions demonstrate excellent performance under the list decoding that is challenging to implement in hardware due to the path sorting operations. As a potential solution to this problem, permutation decoding recently became a hot research t ...

IEEE2022

Experimental quantum key distribution certified by Bell's theorem

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

Cryptographic key exchange protocols traditionally rely on computational conjectures such as the hardness of prime factorization(1) to provide security against eavesdropping attacks. Remarkably, quantum key distribution protocols such as the Bennett-Brassa ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Query Complexity of Adversarial Attacks

Rüdiger Urbanke, Grzegorz Adam Gluch

There are two main attack models considered in the adversarial robustness literature: black-box and white-box. We consider these threat models as two ends of a fine-grained spectrum, indexed by the number of queries the adversary can ask. Using this point ...

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH2021

The Stability of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes and Some of its Consequences

Rüdiger Urbanke, Wei Liu

We study the stability of low-density parity-check codes under blockwise or bitwise maximum a posteriori decoding, where transmission takes place over a binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channel. Our study stems from the consideration of constructin ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

On the Universality of Low-Density Parity-Check Block Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Wei Liu

An important class of modern channel codes is the capacity-achieving sequences of low-density parity-check block codes. Such sequences are usually designed for the binary erasure channel and are decoded by iterative message-passing algorithms. In this pape ...

IEEE2020

On the dependency between the code symmetries and the decoding efficiency

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

A framework of monomial codes is considered, which includes linear codes generated by the evaluation of certain monomials. Polar and Reed-Muller codes are the two best-known representatives of such codes and can be considered as two extreme cases. Reed-Mul ...

IEEE2020

Constructing a provably adversarially-robust classifier from a high accuracy one

Rüdiger Urbanke, Grzegorz Adam Gluch

Modern machine learning models with very high accuracy have been shown to be vulnerable to small, adversarially chosen perturbations of the input. Given black-box access to a high-accuracy classifier f, we show how to construct a new classifier g that has ...

ADDISON-WESLEY PUBL CO2020

Construction of Polar Codes With Sublinear Complexity

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

Consider the problem of constructing a polar code of block length N for a given transmission channel W. Previous approaches require one to compute the reliability of the N synthetic channels and then use only those that are sufficiently reliable. However, ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Displacement Convexity in Spatially Coupled Scalar Recursions

Nicolas Macris, Rüdiger Urbanke, Rafah El-Khatib

We introduce a technique for the analysis of general spatially coupled systems that are governed by scalar recursions. Such systems can be expressed in variational form in terms of a potential function. We show, under mild conditions, that the potential fu ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Improved decoding of second-order Reed-Muller codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

In this paper, we consider low-complexity decoding of second-order Reed-Muller codes. A class of polynomial-time algorithms, based on the projections onto first-order codes, is studied. An old representative of this class, originally developed for binary s ...

IEEE2019

Permutation-based Decoding of Reed-Muller Codes in Binary Erasure Channel

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

In this paper, we consider the problem of decoding Reed-Muller (RM) codes in binary erasure channel. We propose a novel algorithm, which exploits several techniques, such as list recursive (successive cancellation) decoding based on Plotkin decomposition, ...

IEEE2019

Near-Optimal Finite-Length Scaling for Polar Codes Over Large Alphabets

Rüdiger Urbanke, Henry Pfister

For any prime power q, Mori and Tanaka introduced a family of q-ary polar codes based on the q x q Reed-Solomon polarization kernels. For transmission over a q-ary erasure channel, they also derived a closed-form recursion for the erasure probability of ea ...

2019

A New Coding Paradigm for the Primitive Relay Channel

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

We consider the primitive relay channel, where the source sends a message to the relay and to the destination, and the relay helps the communication by transmitting an additional message to the destination via a separate channel. Two well-known coding tech ...

2019

Decoder Partitioning: Towards Practical List Decoding of Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

Polar codes represent one of the major recent breakthroughs in coding theory and, because of their attractive features, they have been selected for the incoming SG standard. As such, a lot of attention has been devoted to the development of decoding algori ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

A New Coding Paradigm for the Primitive Relay Channel

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

We present a coding paradigm that provides a new achievable rate for the primitive relay channel by combining compress-and-forward and decode-and-forward with a chaining construction. In the primitive relay channel model, the source broadcasts a message to ...

IEEE2018

The Stability Condition of LDPC Codes Under MAP Decoding

Rüdiger Urbanke, Wei Liu

We determine the stability condition of low-density parity-check codes under both bitwise and blockwise maximum a posteriori decoding. As a consequence, we prove that the stability condition determines an upper bound on both the bitwise and the blockwise m ...

IEEE2018

How to Achieve the Capacity of Asymmetric Channels

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

2018

Almost Optimal Scaling of Reed-Muller Codes on BEC and BSC Channels

Rüdiger Urbanke, Shrinivas Kudekar, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Yury Polyanskiy

Consider a binary linear code of length N, minimum distance d(min), transmission over the binary erasure channel with parameter 0 < epsilon < 1 or the binary symmetric channel with parameter 0 < epsilon < 1/2, and block-MAP decoding. It was shown by Tillic ...

IEEE2018