Meanings
nounpseudocodeword (plural pseudocodewords)
plural pseudocodewords
- mathematicsThe result obtained when a decoder fails to converge on a codeword, but instead converges on some other code structure.
We examine the structure of pseudocodewords in Tanner graphs and derive lower bounds of pseudocodeword weights.
2004, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, page 671 more example
Other notions of pseudocodeword-like structures such as stopping sets are also known to coincide with these polytope vertices.
2008, Ming-Yang Kao, Encyclopedia of Algorithms, page 481
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