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Decoding methods

In coding theory, decoding is the process of translating received messages into codewords of a given code. There have been many common methods of mapping messages to codewords. These are often used to recover messages sent over a noisy channel, such as a binary symmetric channel.

Maximum likelihood decoding, Minimum distance decoding & Syndrome decoding

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Ideal observer decoding

Maximum likelihood decoding

Minimum distance decoding

Syndrome decoding

Information set decoding

Partial response maximum likelihood

Viterbi decoder

Optimal decision decoding algorithm (ODDA)

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