A Low Complexity Neural Network-Based BP Decoder for Polar Codes

Abstract

In recent years, neural network-based BP decoders for polar codes have draw much attention, due to their faster convergence and better error-correction performance compared with conventional BP decoders. However, the prior neural BP decoders have high storage cost and training complexity due to massive number of training weights, and the performance improvement is slight. In this work, we first propose a 2D-MSMS algorithm with a shared weight scheme, in which the nodes in the same layer share a weight among different iterations. These learnable weights are optimized by deep learning techniques. Then, we propose a CRC-Aided relaxed 2D-MSMS polar de-coder by introducing relaxation method and CRC-Aided early termination scheme. Simulation results show that our proposed decoder can effectively improve BER performance at medium to high SNR and reduce the amount of training weights by more than 95%.