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How to Design a Quantum Streaming Algorithm Without Knowing Anything About Quantum Computing

Quantum Physics 2024-10-25 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

A series of work [GKK+08, Kal22, KPV24] has shown that asymptotic advantages in space complexity are possible for quantum algorithms over their classical counterparts in the streaming model. We give a simple quantum sketch that encompasses all these results, allowing them to be derived from entirely classical algorithms using our quantum sketch as a black box. The quantum sketch and its proof of correctness are designed to be accessible to a reader with no background in quantum computation, relying on only a small number of self-contained quantum postulates.

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@article{arxiv.2410.18922,
  title  = {How to Design a Quantum Streaming Algorithm Without Knowing Anything About Quantum Computing},
  author = {John Kallaugher and Ojas Parekh and Nadezhda Voronova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18922},
  year   = {2024}
}

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