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Almost all decision trees do not allow significant quantum speed-up

Quantum Physics 2014-07-16 v1

Abstract

We show that, for any d, all but a doubly exponentially small fraction of decision trees of depth at most d require Omega(d) quantum queries to be computed with bounded error. In other words, most efficient classical algorithms in the query complexity model do not admit a significant quantum speed-up. The proof is based on showing that, with high probability, the average sensitivity of a random decision tree is high.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1209.4781,
  title  = {Almost all decision trees do not allow significant quantum speed-up},
  author = {Ashley Montanaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4781},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages

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