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Shor's factorisation algorithm is a combination of classical pre- and post-processing and a quantum period finding (QPF) subroutine which allows an exponential speed up over classical factoring algorithms. We consider the stability of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Simon J. Devitt , Austin G. Fowler , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Motivated by applications in automated verification of higher-order functional programs, we develop a notion of constrained Horn clauses in higher-order logic and a decision problem concerning their satisfiability. We show that, although…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Toby Cathcart Burn , C. -H. Luke Ong , Steven J. Ramsay

We present an algorithm for the decomposition of periodic financial return data into orthogonal factors of expected return and "systemic", "productive", and "nonproductive" risk. Generally, when the number of funds does not exceed the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-11-19 Vic Norton

We study the problem of synthesizing polyhedral Lyapunov functions for hybrid linear systems. Such functions are defined as convex piecewise linear functions, with a finite number of pieces. We first prove that deciding whether there exists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Guillaume O. Berger , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

The traditional method of teaching canonical transformations involves the introduction of generating functions of various types. This method obscures the underlying structure of the Hamiltonian least-action principle, and can make a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 Stephen D. webb

Kernel adaptive filters, a class of adaptive nonlinear time-series models, are known by their ability to learn expressive autoregressive patterns from sequential data. However, for trivial monotonic signals, they struggle to perform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-14 Felipe Tobar

This paper presents theory, application, and comparisons of the feedback particle filter (FPF) algorithm for the problem of attitude estimation. The paper builds upon our recent work on the exact FPF solution of the continuous-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Chi Zhang , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta

Distilling from a knowledge base only the part that is relevant to a subset of alphabet, which is recognized as forgetting, has attracted extensive interests in AI community. In standard propositional logic, a general algorithm of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Yisong Wang

It was recently shown that the renormalization of quantum field theory is organized by the Hopf algebra of decorated rooted trees, whose coproduct identifies the divergences requiring subtraction and whose antipode achieves this. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Broadhurst , D. Kreimer

For combinatorial optimization problems that can be formulated as Ising or Potts spin systems, the Mean Field (MF) approximation yields a versatile and simple ANN heuristic, Deterministic Annealing. For assignment problems the situation is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Bo Soderberg , Henrik Jonsson

A method for the nonintrusive and structure-preserving model reduction of canonical and noncanonical Hamiltonian systems is presented. Based on the idea of operator inference, this technique is provably convergent and reduces to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Anthony Gruber , Irina Tezaur

We discuss the fundamental role of entanglement as the essential nonclassical feature providing the computational speed-up in the known quantum algorithms. We review the construction of the Fourier transform on an Abelian group and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Artur Ekert , Richard Jozsa

In this paper we propose Fed-ensemble: a simple approach that bringsmodel ensembling to federated learning (FL). Instead of aggregating localmodels to update a single global model, Fed-ensemble uses random permutations to update a group of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-04 Naichen Shi , Fan Lai , Raed Al Kontar , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Selman and Kautz's work on ``knowledge compilation'' established how approximation (strengthening and/or weakening) of a propositional knowledge-base can be used to speed up query processing, at the expense of completeness. In this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Kevin Henshall , Peter Schachte , Harald Søndergaard , Leigh Whiting

For a large class of polynomials, the standard method of polynomial evaluation, Horner's method, can be very inaccurate. The alternative method given here is on average 100 to 1000 times more accurate than Horner's Method. The number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-22 Brian M. Sutin

We study the complexity classes P and NP through a semigroup fP ("polynomial-time functions"), consisting of all polynomially balanced polynomial-time computable partial functions. Then P is not equal to NP iff fP is a non-regular…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-09 J. C. Birget

Machine learning algorithms use error function minimization to fit a large set of parameters in a preexisting model. However, error minimization eventually leads to a memorization of the training dataset, losing the ability to generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Fernando Martin-Maroto , Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

Fermi-Dirac machines were proposed recently as an approach to solving semidefinite optimization problems on quantum computers. Here, we reinterpret them as canonical quantizations of classical neurons. By viewing a classical neuron as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Alexander He , Nana Liu , Mark M. Wilde

I discuss algorithms for the evaluation of Feynman integrals. These algorithms are based on Hopf algebras and evaluate the Feynman integral to (multiple) polylogarithms.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Weinzierl

We consider constrained Horn clause solving from the more general point of view of solving formula equations. Constrained Horn clauses correspond to the subclass of Horn formula equations. We state and prove a fixed-point theorem for Horn…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Stefan Hetzl , Johannes Kloibhofer