Nonlinear Posterior-Mean Feedback Codes for AWGN Channels

Yingyao Zhou; Natasha Devroye; Milos Zefran; Gyorgy Turan

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Nonlinear Posterior-Mean Feedback Codes for AWGN Channels

Yingyao Zhou·Natasha Devroye·Milos Zefran·Gyorgy Turan

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Abstract

Feedback can improve the reliability of communication over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. Classical feedback codes are interpretable but often rely on linear estimation, while deep-learned feedback codes can achieve strong performance but require many learned parameters and are difficult to interpret. In this work, we propose an interpretable posterior-mean feedback coding framework for AWGN channels with feedback. The proposed scheme uses posterior-mean refinement to construct nonlinear feedback codes under both noiseless passive feedback and noisy active feedback, with maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding at the receiver. We further develop a projection-based design to improve robustness under noisy feedback and support larger message sizes. Numerical results show that the proposed schemes achieve strong finite-blocklength performance and outperform several analytical and learned feedback coding baselines, while using only a small number of learned design parameters.

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Yingyao Zhou, Natasha Devroye, Milos Zefran, Gyorgy Turan. 2026-10-04. Nonlinear Posterior-Mean Feedback Codes for AWGN Channels. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05555

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