| BEC | binary erasure channel |
| BSC | binary symmetric channel |
| i.i.d. | independent and identically distributed |
| r.h.s. | right-hand side |
| r.v. | random variable |
| SDPI | strong data-processing inequality |
| w.l.o.g. | without loss of generality |
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