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Recently, a variety of new equivariant neural network model architectures have been proposed that generalize better over rotational and reflectional symmetries than standard models. These models are relevant to robotics because many…

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Variational quantum machine learning is an extensively studied application of near-term quantum computers. The success of variational quantum learning models crucially depends on finding a suitable parametrization of the model that encodes…

We provide the optimal strategy for unambiguous quantum reading of optical memories, namely when perfect retrieving of information is achieved probabilistically, for the case where noise and loss are negligible. We describe the experimental…

After the appearance of the no-cloning theorem, approximate quantum cloning machines (QCMs) have become one of the most well-studied subject in quantum information theory. Among several measures to quantify the performance of a QCM,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Chloe Kim , Eric Chitambar

We develop a continuous-time reinforcement learning framework for a class of singular stochastic control problems without entropy regularization. The optimal singular control is characterized as the optimal singular control law, which is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Zongxia Liang , Xiaodong Luo , Xiang Yu

Quantum unitary synthesis addresses the problem of translating abstract quantum algorithms into sequences of hardware-executable quantum gates. Solving this task exactly is infeasible in general due to the exponential growth of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Lukas Theißinger , Thore Gerlach , David Berghaus , Christian Bauckhage

Quantum states can be used to encode the information contained in a direction, i.e., in a unit vector. We present the best encoding procedure when the quantum state is made up of $N$ spins (qubits). We find that the quality of this optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Bagan , M. Baig , A. Brey , R. Munoz-Tapia , R. Tarrach

Diverse inverse problems in imaging can be cast as variational problems composed of a task-specific data fidelity term and a regularization term. In this paper, we propose a novel learnable general-purpose regularizer exploiting recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

We present an end-to-end framework for generating solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with unknown components using transformer-based sequence-to-sequence neural networks. Our framework learns directly from past solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Macarena Navarro , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Karan Singh

Estimating properties of unknown unitary operations is a fundamental task in quantum information science. While full unitary tomography requires a number of samples to the unknown unitary scaling linearly with the dimension (implying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Daiki Suruga

The optimal control of unitary transformations is a fundamental problem in quantum control theory and quantum information processing. The feasibility of performing such optimizations is determined by the computational and control resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Katharine W. Moore , Raj Chakrabarti , Gregory Riviello , Herschel Rabitz

An optimal universal cloning transformation is derived that produces M copies of an unknown qubit from a pair of orthogonal qubits. For M>6, the corresponding cloning fidelity is higher than that of the optimal copying of a pair of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Fiurasek , S. Iblisdir , S. Massar , N. J. Cerf

We address the question of a quantum memory storage of quantum dynamics. In particular, we design an optimal protocol for $N\to 1$ probabilistic storage-and-retrieval of unitary channels on $d$-dimensional quantum systems. If we may access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Michal Sedlák , Alessandro Bisio , Mário Ziman

Recent years have seen significant activity on the problem of using data for the purpose of learning properties of quantum systems or of processing classical or quantum data via quantum computing. As in classical learning, quantum learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Leonardo Banchi , Jason Luke Pereira , Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Implementing fast and high-fidelity quantum operations using open-loop quantum optimal control relies on having an accurate model of the quantum dynamics. Any deviations between this model and the complete dynamics of the device, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Elie Genois , Noah J. Stevenson , Noah Goss , Irfan Siddiqi , Alexandre Blais

Decision analysis deals with modeling and enhancing decision processes. A principal challenge in improving behavior is in obtaining a transparent description of existing behavior in the first place. In this paper, we develop an expressive,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Daniel Jarrett , Alihan Hüyük , Mihaela van der Schaar

We develop a semidefinite programming method for the optimization of quantum networks, including both causal networks and networks with indefinite causal structure. Our method applies to a broad class of performance measures, defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Giulio Chiribella , Daniel Ebler

We investigate how to determine whether the states of a set of quantum systems are identical or not. This paper treats both error-free comparison, and comparison where errors in the result are allowed. Error-free comparison means that we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Igor Jex , Erika Andersson , Anthony Chefles

Robust control design for quantum unitary transformations has been recognized as a fundamental and challenging task in the development of quantum information processing due to unavoidable decoherence or operational errors in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Chengzhi Wu , Bo Qi , Chunlin Chen , Daoyi Dong