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This paper explores the space of (propositional) probabilistic logical languages, ranging from a purely `qualitative' comparative language to a highly `quantitative' language involving arbitrary polynomials over probability terms. While…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Duligur Ibeling , Thomas Icard , Krzysztof Mierzewski , Milan Mossé

Stochastic models are highly relevant tools in science, engineering, and society. Recent work suggests emerging quantum computing technologies can substantially decrease the memory requirements for simulating stochastic models. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 John Realpe-Gómez , Nathan Killoran

The widespread use of machine learning has raised the question of quantum supremacy for supervised learning as compared to quantum computational advantage. In fact, a recent work shows that computational and learning advantage are, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jordi Pérez-Guijarro , Alba Pagès-Zamora , Javier R. Fonollosa

Postselection is an operation that allows the selection of specific measurement outcomes. It serves as a powerful theoretical tool for enhancing the performance of existing quantum algorithms. Despite recent developments such as time…

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Alex Linden , Betül Gül

We show that a separation between the class of all problems that can efficiently be solved on a quantum computer and those solvable using probabilistic classical algorithms in polynomial time implies the generalized contextuality of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Farid Shahandeh

Quantum computers are widely believed have an advantage over classical computers, and some have even published some empirical evidence that this is the case. However, these publications do not include a rigorous proof of this advantage,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Jonah Librande

A key open question in quantum computation is what advantages quantum neural networks (QNNs) may have over classical neural networks (NNs), and in what situations these advantages may transpire. Here we address this question by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Logan G. Wright , Peter L. McMahon

In the past decade, the field of quantum machine learning has drawn significant attention due to the prospect of bringing genuine computational advantages to now widespread algorithmic methods. However, not all domains of machine learning…

The dramatic increase in the efficiency of a quantum computer over a classical computer, raises a natural question asking, how much of this success could be attributed to its quantum nature and how much to its probabilistic content. To…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anjan Kundu

Quantum computers are believed to bring computational advantages in simulating quantum many body systems. However, recent works have shown that classical machine learning algorithms are able to predict numerous properties of quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Riccardo Molteni , Casper Gyurik , Vedran Dunjko

The challenge of pattern recognition is to invoke a strategy that can accurately extract features of a dataset and classify its samples. In realistic scenarios this dataset may be a physical system from which we want to retrieve…

In this thesis, we introduce a new quantum Turing machine (QTM) model that supports general quantum operators, together with its pushdown, counter, and finite automaton variants, and examine the computational power of classical and quantum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

In recent years, deep learning has had a profound impact on machine learning and artificial intelligence. At the same time, algorithms for quantum computers have been shown to efficiently solve some problems that are intractable on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Nathan Wiebe , Ashish Kapoor , Krysta M. Svore

Interactive proof systems whose verifiers are constant-space machines have interesting features that do not have counterparts in the better studied case where the verifiers operate under reasonably large space bounds. The language…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-17 M. Utkan Gezer , A. C. Cem Say

Since their appearance in the 1950s, computational models capable of performing probabilistic choices have received wide attention and are nowadays pervasive in almost every areas of computer science. Their development was also inextricably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Melissa Antonelli , Ugo Dal Lago , Paolo Pistone

Over the past few years several quantum machine learning algorithms were proposed that promise quantum speed-ups over their classical counterparts. Most of these learning algorithms either assume quantum access to data -- making it unclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Yunchao Liu , Srinivasan Arunachalam , Kristan Temme

Polynomial--time constant--space quantum Turing machines (QTMs) and logarithmic--space probabilistic Turing machines (PTMs) recognize uncountably many languages with bounded error (Say and Yakary\i lmaz 2014, arXiv:1411.7647). In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Maksims Dimitrijevs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

The use of quantum computing for machine learning is among the most exciting prospective applications of quantum technologies. However, machine learning tasks where data is provided can be considerably different than commonly studied…

While statistics and machine learning offers numerous methods for ensuring generalization, these methods often fail in the presence of adaptivity---the common practice in which the choice of analysis depends on previous interactions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Kobbi Nissim , Adam Smith , Thomas Steinke , Uri Stemmer , Jonathan Ullman

The paper tackles the power of randomization in the context of locality by analyzing the ability to`boost' the success probability of deciding a distributed language. The main outcome of this analysis is that the distributed computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Pierre Fraigniaud , Amos Korman , Merav Parter , David Peleg