Score Based Error Correcting Code Decoder

Error-correcting codes enable reliable communication, yet practical soft decoding remains challenging across code families and block lengths. We propose SB-ECC, a score-based decoder that casts decoding as continuous-time denoising. A neural denoiser defines a probability-flow ordinary differential equation (ODE) that iteratively updates the noisy channel observation toward a valid codeword, guided by parity constraints. The model is trained across noise levels without time/SNR conditioning, enabling inference without SNR estimation and supporting a direct latency--accuracy trade-off controlled by the ODE solver budget. We use the raw signed channel observation as input for learning a continuous denoising field. Across $42$ code/SNR settings, SB-ECC achieves the best BER in $39/42$ entries, with an average SNR gain of $0.17$ dB and a maximum gain of $0.46$ dB over the strongest competing baseline, we showed that swapping the solver from Euler to DPM preserves $-\ln(\mathrm{BER})$ while reducing end-to-end decoding time by $8.86\%$ on average (up to $12.82\%$).