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Quantum d-separation and quantum belief propagation

Quantum Physics 2020-12-18 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to generalize classical d-separation and classical Belief Propagation (BP) to the quantum realm. Classical d-separation is an essential ingredient of most of Judea Pearl's work. It is crucial to all 3 rungs of what Pearl calls the 3 rungs of Causation. So having a quantum version of d-separation and BP probably implies that most of Pearl's Bayesian networks work, including his theory of causality, can be translated in a straightforward manner to the quantum realm.

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@article{arxiv.2012.09635,
  title  = {Quantum d-separation and quantum belief propagation},
  author = {Robert R. Tucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09635},
  year   = {2020}
}
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