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Abstract: The progressive edge-growth (PEG) algorithm is a general method to construct short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and it is a greedy method to place each edge with large girths. In ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

1 Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States 2 Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern ...