@InProceedings{duursma_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.17, author = {Duursma, Iwan and Gabrys, Ryan and Guruswami, Venkatesan and Lin, Ting-Chun and Wang, Hsin-Po}, title = {{Accelerating Polarization via Alphabet Extension}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)}, pages = {17:1--17:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-249-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {245}, editor = {Chakrabarti, Amit and Swamy, Chaitanya}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.17}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171393}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.17}, annote = {Keywords: polar code, scaling exponent} }