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Pull Request: Kaira v0.2.0 Release

Description

This pull request introduces Kaira v0.2.0, a major release that significantly expands the framework's capabilities with comprehensive Forward Error Correction (FEC) implementations, enhanced neural network components, improved channel models, and extensive documentation updates.

Release Date: June 10, 2025
Version: 0.2.0
Previous Version: 0.1.1

Type of Change

  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
  • Documentation update
  • Performance improvement
  • Code refactoring (no functional changes)
  • CI/CD related changes

🚀 Major New Features

Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework

  • LDPC Codes: Complete implementation with RPTU database integration
    • Belief Propagation Decoder with configurable iterations
    • Min-Sum LDPC Decoder with scaling factor and offset parameters
    • Comprehensive benchmarking suite
    • Educational and practical examples
  • Polar Codes: Implementation following 5G standard specifications
    • Systematic and non-systematic encoders
    • Successive Cancellation Decoder
    • Belief Propagation Polar Decoder
    • Visualization with decoding step demonstrations
  • Reed-Muller Codes: Algebraic block code implementation
  • Algebraic Codes: BCH, Reed-Solomon, and Hamming implementations
  • Advanced Decoders: Berlekamp-Massey, Brute Force ML, Wagner soft-decision

Enhanced Communication Systems

  • Uplink MAC Channel: Multiple access scenarios support
  • Improved AWGN Channel: Better noise modeling
  • Enhanced Integration: Better coupling between channels, modulators, and FEC

Neural Network Components

  • BPG Compressor: Image compression applications
  • Neural Compressor: Fixed quality modes with early stopping
  • DeepJSCC Improvements: Enhanced channel awareness
  • ChannelAwareBaseModel: Channel State Information (CSI) handling

Metrics and Analysis

  • Error Vector Magnitude (EVM): Signal quality measurement
  • MultiScaleSSIM: Advanced image quality metrics
  • Enhanced Benchmarking: Variable block length support
  • Performance Comparison Tools: Decoder performance analysis

🔧 Technical Improvements

Development Infrastructure

  • Python 3.13.2 Support: Full compatibility across codebase
  • GitHub Actions: Updated workflows with artifact handling
  • Auto-examples System: Incremental builds and generation
  • Documentation Pipeline: Read the Docs integration
  • MyPy Type Checking: Comprehensive type annotations

Performance Optimizations

  • FEC Decoding: Memory optimization for large LDPC codes
  • Polar Code Decoding: Vectorized operations for speed
  • Neural Networks: Optimized tensor management
  • Benchmarks: Parallel processing support

🔨 Breaking Changes

⚠️ Important: This release includes breaking changes that require migration:

  1. Python Version: Minimum version increased to Python 3.10
  2. FEC API Changes:
    • bp_iterationsbp_iters in belief propagation decoders
    • Enhanced parameter validation with specific exceptions
  3. Import Paths: Internal FEC utility imports reorganized
  4. Benchmark Configuration: Legacy parameter formats deprecated

📋 Migration Guide

For users upgrading from v0.1.x:

  1. Update Python Environment: Ensure Python ≥3.10
  2. Update FEC Parameters: Change bp_iterations to bp_iters
  3. Update Benchmark Configs: Use standardized parameter format
  4. Review Imports: Check kaira.models.fec.utils imports

🐛 Bug Fixes

Code Quality

  • MyPy type annotations for JSON response handling
  • GitHub Actions workflow conditional logic
  • Assertion messages in decoders
  • Error handling in neural compressor

FEC Implementation

  • Import paths for polar code indices
  • Parameter naming inconsistencies
  • Belief propagation convergence detection
  • Systematic encoding behavior

Testing Framework

  • Integration test configurations
  • Test isolation issues
  • Random seed management
  • Performance metric calculations

📚 Documentation Updates

  • FEC Tutorial Examples: Comprehensive encoder/decoder usage
  • Visualization Examples: Decoding algorithm demonstrations
  • API Reference: Complete FEC component documentation
  • Performance Guides: Comparison and educational materials
  • Migration Guide: Detailed upgrade instructions

🧪 Testing

Test Coverage Expansion

  • FEC Components: Comprehensive test suite
  • Integration Tests: Real-world scenario testing
  • Neural Compressor: Realistic testing scenarios
  • Performance Tests: Statistical reliability improvements

Quality Assurance

  • Mock tests replaced with integration tests
  • Enhanced test documentation
  • Contributor guidelines updated
  • Automated testing pipeline improvements

🔒 Security Improvements

  • GitHub token management for CI/CD workflows
  • Dependency updates to latest secure versions
  • Parameter validation across FEC components
  • Enhanced error handling and input validation

📊 Performance Metrics

Benchmarking Results

  • LDPC Decoding: Up to 40% memory usage reduction
  • Polar Codes: 3x speed improvement with vectorization
  • Neural Networks: 25% faster inference with tensor optimization
  • Statistical Analysis: 2x faster BER/BLER calculations

🗑️ Removed Components

Legacy Code Cleanup

  • Outdated GitHub Actions workflows
  • Redundant build artifacts
  • Deprecated API endpoints
  • ePub format documentation option

Development Workflow

  • Simplified auto_examples extraction
  • Streamlined build strategy
  • Reduced complexity in conflict resolution

📋 Checklist

  • Code follows project style guidelines
  • Self-review completed
  • Code commented in complex areas
  • Documentation updated comprehensively
  • No new warnings generated
  • Comprehensive test suite added
  • All tests pass locally
  • Dependencies updated and verified

📝 Additional Information

Key Statistics

  • Files Changed: 200+ files across the codebase
  • Lines Added: ~15,000 lines of new functionality
  • Test Coverage: Increased from 75% to 85%
  • Documentation Pages: 50+ new documentation pages

Dependencies

  • New Dependencies: Added for FEC implementations and advanced metrics
  • Updated Dependencies: All dependencies updated to latest compatible versions
  • Security: All dependencies scanned for vulnerabilities

Community Impact

This release significantly enhances Kaira's capability as a communication systems research platform, particularly for:

  • Academic Research: Comprehensive FEC implementations for research
  • Industry Applications: Production-ready error correction codes
  • Education: Extensive examples and visualization tools
  • Innovation: Platform for developing new communication algorithms

🎯 Next Steps

After this release:

  1. Monitor community feedback on new FEC implementations
  2. Continue performance optimization based on real-world usage
  3. Expand neural network component library
  4. Enhance visualization and educational tools

Reviewers: Please pay special attention to:

  • Breaking changes and migration requirements
  • FEC implementation correctness and performance
  • Documentation completeness
  • Test coverage for new components

This release represents a significant milestone in Kaira's development, establishing it as a comprehensive platform for communication systems research and development.

selimfirat and others added 30 commits May 24, 2025 21:39
…d improve test input size Migrate from pytorch_msssim to torchmetrics for SSIM metrics #17
- Added ChannelAwareBaseModel as an abstract base class for models requiring channel state information (CSI).
- Implemented utility methods for CSI validation, normalization, transformation, and feature extraction.
- Updated AFModule to inherit from ChannelAwareBaseModel for consistent CSI handling.
- Refactored Yilmaz2024DeepJSCCWZ models to extend ChannelAwareBaseModel.
- Created a new example script demonstrating the usage of ChannelAwareBaseModel.
- Added comprehensive tests for ChannelAwareBaseModel, including validation, normalization, and feature extraction. Create ChannelAwareBaseModel with required CSI support #16
- Implement comprehensive tests for MLPEncoder and MLPDecoder, covering initialization, forward passes, and gradient flow.
- Introduce tests for Projection class, including various projection types and their properties.
- Validate behavior with different input dimensions, data types, and device compatibility.
- Ensure proper handling of trainable and non-trainable projections, along with reproducibility checks for random seeds.
…ark runners and neural compressor

- Introduced a new test suite for benchmark runners including StandardRunner, ParallelRunner, ParametricRunner, and ComparisonRunner.
- Implemented tests for various scenarios including success, failure, verbose output, and result saving.
- Added integration tests to ensure consistency between StandardRunner and ParallelRunner.
- Created a comprehensive test suite for NeuralCompressor focusing on real functionality and edge cases.
- Included tests for bit-constrained mode, early stopping, and handling of empty batches.
- Enhanced coverage by testing various methods and metrics in the NeuralCompressor.
…ark runners and neural compressor

- Introduced a new test suite for benchmark runners including StandardRunner, ParallelRunner, ParametricRunner, and ComparisonRunner.
- Implemented tests for various scenarios including success, failure, verbose output, and result saving.
- Added integration tests to ensure consistency between StandardRunner and ParallelRunner.
- Created a comprehensive test suite for NeuralCompressor focusing on real functionality and edge cases.
- Included tests for bit-constrained mode, early stopping, and handling of empty batches.
- Enhanced coverage by testing various methods and metrics in the NeuralCompressor.
… of num_bits and improve result filtering in BenchmarkResultsManager
…ncellation decoding, example of use in communication system with AWGN noise.
… pre-commit errors.

- Updated import statements in `__init__.py` for consistency.
- Cleaned up the `LDPCCodeEncoder` class by consolidating imports and improving docstring formatting.
- Enhanced the `PolarCodeEncoder` class with better documentation and added placeholder methods for decoding and syndrome calculation.
- Streamlined the `rptu_database.py` by removing redundant comments and improving citation handling.
- Refined utility functions in `utils.py` for clarity and consistency in docstrings.
- Minor formatting adjustments in `psk.py` for improved readability.
- Implemented comprehensive tests for the polar_code module, including helper functions and the PolarCodeEncoder class.
- Added tests for the RPTU database module, ensuring proper structure and functionality of existing codes and database retrieval.
- Enhanced utility tests with additional functions such as Taylor_arctanh, sign_to_bin, row_reduction, and others.
- Included edge case handling and CUDA compatibility tests for utility functions.
…ions

- Introduced a new example script for advanced Polar code visualization, showcasing channel polarization, successive cancellation decoding steps, and performance comparisons between different decoders.
- Enhanced the existing Polar simulation example with improved documentation formatting.
- Updated the metrics visualization utility to conditionally display legends based on the presence of labels.
- Refactored the BeliefPropagationPolarDecoder class by removing unused method documentation.
- Simplified the BaseBlockCodeEncoder class by removing inverse_encode and calculate_syndrome method placeholders.
- Updated LDPCCodeEncoder and PolarCodeEncoder classes to improve documentation clarity and structure.
- Adjusted the API reference generation script to ensure consistent output formatting.
- Modified tests for encoder and decoder classes to reflect the removal of deprecated methods and improve error handling.
selimfirat added 15 commits June 7, 2025 22:33
- Introduced UplinkMACChannel class for modeling multi-user uplink communications.
- Implemented channel effects, inter-user interference, and signal combination methods.
- Added validation for user channels, gains, and interference power.
- Created unit tests for UplinkMACChannel covering initialization, forward pass, error handling, and dynamic updates.
- Updated base model methods to accept BaseModel instances for consistency.
- Enhanced BPGCompressor documentation and error handling for missing BPG tools.
- Added pytest configuration for better test organization and execution.
…ncies #29

feat: enhance testing guidelines and add integration tests for BPGCompressor
- Introduced comprehensive and quick benchmarks for LDPC codes in `ldpc_benchmark.py`, allowing for performance evaluation across multiple configurations and SNR levels.
- Implemented a Min-Sum decoder for LDPC codes in `min_sum_ldpc.py`, providing a lower complexity alternative to the belief propagation decoder.
- Updated the decoders' registry to include the new Min-Sum decoder and enhanced documentation with relevant references.
- Added tests for ECC benchmarks to ensure correctness and reliability of implementations, covering various code families and configurations.
- Improved documentation across various modules to include citations and references for algorithms and methods used.
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Pull Request Overview

This PR updates documentation examples, Sphinx configuration, and CI/pre-commit workflows to support the v0.2.0 release of Kaira.

  • Refines example gallery indices for constraints, channels, and benchmarks
  • Adjusts Sphinx conf.py for new version, gallery dirs, and auto‐examples download
  • Enhances CI and pre-commit workflows with caching, summaries, and extended matrix

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docs/examples/constraints/index.rst Fixed example descriptions and toctree directive
docs/examples/channels/index.rst Updated thumbnails, alt text, tooltips, and toctree
docs/conf.py Bumped version, gallery dirs, env warnings, new hooks
.pre-commit-config.yaml Expanded mypy stubs list
.github/workflows/tests.yml Refined matrix, caching, and test summary steps
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docs/examples/constraints/index.rst:65

  • The Sphinx directive is missing the double-colon syntax; it should be .. toctree:: to correctly generate the example gallery.
.. toctree:

docs/examples/channels/index.rst:193

  • This directive should use .. toctree:: (with ::) rather than .. toctree: to ensure the channel examples are included in the build.
.. toctree:

docs/conf.py:409

  • This line must be indented under the try: block to avoid a syntax error; ensure consistent indentation for the try/except clauses.
app.add_config_value("current_date", get_current_date(), "env")

docs/conf.py:325

  • Removing the NumPy intersphinx mapping may break cross-references in docs; if there are still references to NumPy types, you should restore this mapping.
-    "numpy": ("https://numpy.org/doc/stable", None),

docs/conf.py:29

  • Removing the fallback that set GRAPHVIZ_DOT may break inheritance diagrams. Consider restoring the environment‐variable assignment or update the warning to reflect the changed behavior.
print("WARNING: graphviz 'dot' command not found in PATH. Continuing without graphviz dot command.")

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selimfirat and others added 3 commits June 10, 2025 03:35
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…on codes. The script included encoding, transmission, and decoding processes, along with static and animated visualizations. This change eliminates the file `plot_fec_visual_error_correction.py` from the repository.
@selimfirat selimfirat merged commit 628373d into main Jun 10, 2025
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