“…The studies of q-ary polar codes are broadly divided into the following two approaches: The first approach is the strong polarization [9], [17], [18], i.e., the DMC is polarized to either noiseless or pure noisy channel. The second approach is the weak polarization [6], [10]- [12], [14], [16], i.e., the DMC is polarized to partially noiseless channels. The weak polarization is also called the multilevel polarization [10], [14], [16].…”