Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for demapping a signal to a point in a signal constellation. An example method generally includes identifying a seed point in a signal constellation from a received signal. A candidate set of codes for the signal is generated based on a seed point and an additive perturbation applied to the seed point. A point in the signal constellation corresponding to the value of the received signal is identified based on a probability distribution generated over the candidate set of codes. Generally, the identified point corresponds to a code in the candidate set of codes having a highest probability in the probability distribution. The point in the signal constellation is output as the value of the received signal.