Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for reducing overhead during hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operations performed by a user equipment (UE) during wireless communication. The UE receives a message over the wireless network and obtains a parity check matrix (PCM) associated with a received message. Rows of the PCM are assigned to respective groups of a plurality of groups, where the respective groups have corresponding one or more parity checks as determined by the PCM. The UE generates a feedback message including a plurality of bits, wherein an individual bit of the plurality of bits indicates whether a corresponding respective group of the plurality of groups include one or more unsatisfied parity checks. The UE then transmits the feedback message to a base station of the wireless network.