Publications de Seyed Hamed Hassani

Adversarial Training Should Be Cast As a Non-Zero-Sum Game

Seyed Hamed Hassani, Volkan Cevher, Fabian Ricardo Latorre Gomez

One prominent approach toward resolving the adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks is the two-player zero-sum paradigm of adversarial training, in which predictors are trained against adversarially-chosen perturbations of data. Despite the promi ...

2023

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

Systems and methods for rate-compatible polar codes for general channels

Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

According to certain embodiments, a transmit node in a wireless communications system includes a first universal rate-compatible polar encoder and a transmitter. The first universal rate-compatible polar encoder is configured for a family of two or more ty ...

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

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

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

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

PROPER: global protein interaction network alignment through percolation matching

Matthias Grossglauser, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Ehsan Kazemi, Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres

Background The alignment of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks enables us to uncover the relationships between different species, which leads to a deeper understanding of biological systems. Network alignment can be used to transfer biological know ...

2016

Growing a Graph Matching from a Handful of Seeds

Matthias Grossglauser, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Ehsan Kazemi

In many graph–mining problems, two networks from different domains have to be matched. In the absence of reliable node attributes, graph matching has to rely on only the link structures of the two networks, which amounts to a generalization of the classic ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Achieving Marton's Region for Broadcast Channels Using Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

This paper presents polar coding schemes for the two-user discrete memoryless broadcast channel (DM-BC) which achieve Marton's region with both common and private messages. This is the best achievable rate region known to date, and it is tight for all clas ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Scaling Exponent of List Decoders With Applications to Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

Motivated by the significant performance gains which polar codes experience under successive cancellation list decoding, their scaling exponent is studied as a function of the list size. In particular, the error probability is fixed, and the tradeoff betwe ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

From Polar to Reed-Muller Codes: A Technique to Improve the Finite-Length Performance

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

We explore the relationship between polar and RM codes and we describe a coding scheme which improves upon the performance of the standard polar code at practical block lengths. Our starting point is the experimental observation that RM codes have a smalle ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Achieving Marton's Region for Broadcast Channels Using Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

We present polar coding schemes for the 2-user discrete memoryless broadcast channel (DM-BC) which achieve Marton's region with both common and private messages. This is the best achievable rate region up to date, and it is tight for all classes of 2-user ...

Ieee2014

From Polar to Reed-Muller Codes: a Technique to Improve the Finite-Length Performance

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

We explore the relationship between polar and RM codes and we describe a coding scheme which improves upon the performance of the standard polar code at practical block lengths. Our starting point is the experimental observation that RM codes have a smalle ...

2014

Finite-Length Scaling for Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani

Consider a binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channel W. Such a channel has a capacity, call it I (W), and for any R < I (W) and strictly positive constant P-e we know that we can construct a coding scheme that allows transmission at rate R with an e ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Universal Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani

Polar codes, invented by Arikan in 2009, are known to achieve the capacity of any binary-input memoryless outputsymmetric channel. Further, both the encoding and the decoding can be accomplished in O(N log(N)) real operations, where N is the blocklength. O ...

Ieee2014

Extended Polar Codes Perform Better in Terms of Compound Rate and Scaling Behavior

Seyed Hamed Hassani

Polar codes provably achieve the capacity of a wide array of channels under successive decoding. However, in terms of some practical aspects, these codes do not perform optimally and need further improvement. In this paper, we consider two such aspects: un ...

Ieee2013

Scaling Exponent of List Decoders with Applications to Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Marco Mondelli

Motivated by the significant performance gains which polar codes experience when they are decoded with successive cancellation list decoders, we study how the scaling exponent changes as a function of the list size L. In particular, we fix the block error ...

Ieee2013

The Least Degraded and the Least Upgraded Channel with respect to a Channel Family

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Wei Liu

Given a family of binary-input memoryless output-symmetric (BMS) channels having a fixed capacity, we derive the BMS channel having the highest (resp.lowest) capacity among all channels that are degraded (resp. upgraded) with respect to the whole family. W ...

Ieee2013