Avijit Mandal

Affiliation - Duke University

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Hello! I am Avijit. I am a 5th year PhD student at Duke University, USA. I work in the intersection of classical and quantum information and coding theory. At Duke, I am fortunate to work with Dr. Henry Pfister .

Selected News

Sep 06, 2026 Published new result on the guarantee of BPQM achieving vanishing block error rate for Random LDPC codes on pure state channels, full version available at Achieving Vanishing Block Error Rate for Random LDPC Codes using BPQM.
Aug 25, 2026 Presented a talk at IBM Research on recent progress on decoding classical codes on classical quantum channels Slides
Jun 10, 2026 Our work on affine filtering measurements is now online, full version available at Affine Filtering Measurements.
Apr 28, 2026 Our work on optimization using locally quantum decoders is now online, full version available at Optimization using Quantum Decoders.
Mar 29, 2026 A new work on quantum message passing for q-ary pure state channels has been accepted at ISIT 2026 , extended version can be found here q-ary BPQM.
Aug 15, 2025 Spent wonderful summer with Quantum Algorithms team at Google Quantum AI, Los Angeles, CA as a Student Researcher for Summer 25.

Selected publications

  1. Quantum Message Passing Convergence and Vanishing Block-Error Probability for Random LDPC Codes
    Avijit Mandal, Christophe Piveteau, Joseph M. Renes, and 1 more author
    2026
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  2. Affine Filtering Measurements and Their Applications to Quantum Decoding
    Avijit Mandal, Noah Shutty, Henry D. Pfister, and 1 more author
    2026
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  3. Optimization Using Locally-Quantum Decoders
    Noah Shutty, Avijit Mandal, Seyoon Ragavan, and 8 more authors
    2026
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  4. Quantum Message Passing for Factor Graphs over Finite Abelian Groups
    Avijit Mandal, and Henry D Pfister
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.12186, 2026
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  5. Reed-Muller Codes on CQ Channels via a New Correlation Bound for Quantum Observables
    Avijit Mandal, and Henry D. Pfister
    2025
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  6. Polar Codes for CQ Channels: Decoding via Belief-Propagation with Quantum Messages
    Avijit Mandal, Sarah Brandsen, and Henry D Pfister
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07167, 2024
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  7. Belief propagation with quantum messages for symmetric classical-quantum channels
    Sarah Brandsen, Avijit Mandal, and Henry D Pfister
    In 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2022
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