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Quantum computing allows for the potential of significant advancements in both the speed and the capacity of widely used machine learning techniques. Here we employ quantum algorithms for the Hopfield network, which can be used for pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Patrick Rebentrost , Thomas R. Bromley , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

Quantum computing is a promising technology that harnesses the peculiarities of quantum mechanics to deliver computational speedups for some problems that are intractable to solve on a classical computer. Current generation noisy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Daan Camps , Efekan Kökcü , Lindsay Bassman , Wibe A. de Jong , Alexander F. Kemper , Roel Van Beeumen

This paper describes a new set of block source codes well suited for data compression. These codes are defined by sets of productions rules of the form a.l->b, where a in A represents a value from the source alphabet A and l, b are -small-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Herve Jegou , Christine Guillemot

The basic idea of quantum computing is surprisingly similar to that of kernel methods in machine learning, namely to efficiently perform computations in an intractably large Hilbert space. In this paper we explore some theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Maria Schuld , Nathan Killoran

Huffman encoding is often improved by using block codes, for example a 3-block would be an alphabet consisting of each possible combination of three characters. We take the approach of starting with a base alphabet and expanding it to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Richard M Fredlund

Recently, arithmetic coding has attracted the attention of many scholars because of its high compression capability. Accordingly, in this paper a method which adds secrecy to this well-known source code is proposed. Finite state arithmetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Hashem Moradmand Ziyabar , Mahnaz Sinaie , Ali Payandeh , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

Designing quantum error correcting codes that promise a high error threshold, low resource overhead and efficient decoding algorithms is crucial to achieve large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. The concatenated quantum Hamming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Menglong Fang , Daiqin Su

When creating a quantum system whose natural dynamics provide useful computational operations, designers have two key tools at their disposal: the (constrained) choice of both the Hamiltonian and the the initial state of the system (an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Alastair Kay

Four decades after Richard Feynman's famous remark, we have reached a stage at which nature can be simulated quantum mechanically. Quantum simulation is among the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, like many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Mahmood Hasani , Hadis Salasi , Negar Ashari Astani

Learning, prediction, and compression are intimately connected: a model that accurately predicts the next symbol in a sequence can be coupled with a source coder to compress that sequence near its information-theoretic limit. When tokenized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Vishnu Teja Kunde , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jamison Ebert

Huffman Codes are optimal Instantaneous Fixed-to-Variable (FV) codes in which every source symbol can only be encoded by one codeword. Relaxing these constraints permits constructing better FV codes. More specifically, recent work has shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Mordecai Golin , Elfarouk Harb

Compression aims to reduce the size of an input, while maintaining its relevant properties. For multi-parameter persistent homology, compression is a necessary step in any computational pipeline, since standard constructions lead to large…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Alexander Rolle

Huffman coding finds an optimal prefix code for a given probability mass function. Consider situations in which one wishes to find an optimal code with the restriction that all codewords have lengths that lie in a user-specified set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-03 Michael B. Baer

We address the question of efficient implementation of quantum protocols, with small communication and entanglement, and short depth circuit for encoding or decoding. We introduce two new methods to achieve this, the first method involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain

A quantum code is a subspace of a Hilbert space of a physical system chosen to be correctable against a given class of errors, where information can be encoded. Ideally, the quantum code lies within the ground space of the physical system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Yingkai Ouyang

Compression is a technique to reduce the quantity of data without excessively reducing the quality of the multimedia data. The transition and storing of compressed multimedia data is much faster and more efficient than original uncompressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Asadollah Shahbahrami , Ramin Bahrampour , Mobin Sabbaghi Rostami , Mostafa Ayoubi Mobarhan

We study the new problem of Huffman-like codes subject to individual restrictions on the code-word lengths of a subset of the source words. These are prefix codes with minimal expected code-word length for a random source where additionally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Zvi Lotker

Image processing is popular in our daily life because of the need to extract essential information from our 3D world, including a variety of applications in widely separated fields like bio-medicine, economics, entertainment, and industry.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Alok Anand , Meizhong Lyu , Prabh Simran Baweja , Vinay Patil

We introduce a new type of cryptographic primitive that we call hiding fingerprinting. A (quantum) fingerprinting scheme translates a binary string of length $n$ to $d$ (qu)bits, typically $d\ll n$, such that given any string $y$ and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Dmytro Gavinsky , Tsuyoshi Ito

Algorithms for deriving Huffman codes and the recently developed algorithm for compiling PIFO trees to trees of fixed shape (Mohan et al. 2022) are similar, but work with different underlying algebraic operations. In this paper, we exploit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Keri D'Angelo , Dexter Kozen