English
Related papers

Related papers: The complexity of approximating complex-valued Isi…

200 papers

Probabilistic graphical models are a key tool in machine learning applications. Computing the partition function, i.e., normalizing constant, is a fundamental task of statistical inference but it is generally computationally intractable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-29 Sungsoo Ahn , Michael Chertkov , Adrian Weller , Jinwoo Shin

Deutsch proposed two sorts of models of quantum computers, quantum Turing machines (QTMs) and quantum circuit families (QCFs). In this paper we explore the computational powers of these models and re-examine the claim of the computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harumichi Nishimura , Masanao Ozawa

We establish a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for partition functions of quantum spin models at high temperature. Our algorithm is based on the quantum cluster expansion of Neto\v{c}n\'y and Redig and the cluster expansion approach…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ryan L. Mann , Tyler Helmuth

Weighted counting problems are a natural generalization of counting problems where a weight is associated with every computational path of polynomial-time non-deterministic Turing machines and the goal is to compute the sum of the weights…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Cassio P. de Campos , Georgios Stamoulis , Dennis Weyland

The purpose of the paper is to provide a characterization of the error of the best polynomial approximation of composite functions in weighted spaces. Such a characterization is essential for the convergence analysis of numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Luisa Fermo , Concetta Laurita , Maria Grazia Russo

In the number partitioning problem (NPP) one aims to partition a given set of $N$ real numbers into two subsets with approximately equal sum. The NPP is a well-studied optimization problem and is famous for possessing a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Rushil Mallarapu , Mark Sellke

Parameterized complexity enables the practical solution of generally intractable NP-hard problems when certain parameters are small, making it particularly useful in real-world applications. The study of string problems in this framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Josh Cudby , Sergii Strelchuk

The growing demand for solving large-scale, data-intensive linear and conic optimization problems, particularly in applications such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, has highlighted the limitations of classical interior…

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Samson Alva , Eduardo Dueñez , Jose Iovino , Claire Walton

Quantum theory (QT) has been confirmed by numerous experiments, yet we still cannot fully grasp the meaning of the theory. As a consequence, the quantum world appears to us paradoxical. Here we shed new light on QT by having it follow from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Alessio Benavoli , Alessandro Facchini , Marco Zaffalon

Investigating the classical simulability of quantum circuits provides a promising avenue towards understanding the computational power of quantum systems. Whether a class of quantum circuits can be efficiently simulated with a probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Hakop Pashayan , Stephen D. Bartlett , David Gross

We present elementary mappings between classical lattice models and quantum circuits. These mappings provide a general framework to obtain efficiently simulable quantum gate sets from exactly solvable classical models. For example, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 M. Van den Nest , W. Dür , R. Raussendorf , H. J. Briegel

We study the problem of learning to partition users into groups, where one must learn the compatibilities between the users to achieve optimal groupings. We define four natural objectives that optimize for average and worst case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Arun Rajkumar , Koyel Mukherjee , Theja Tulabandhula

We study the problem of approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model in graphs and hypergraphs. Our first result is a deterministic approximation scheme (an FPTAS) for the partition function in bounded degree graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Jingcheng Liu , Alistair Sinclair , Piyush Srivastava

Quantum image processing (QIP) means the quantum based methods to speed up image processing algorithms. Many quantum image processing schemes claim that their efficiency are theoretically higher than their corresponding classical schemes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Nan Jiang , Yijie Dang , Jian Wang

We learn optimal instance-specific heuristics for the global minimization of nonconvex quadratically-constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs). Specifically, we consider partitioning-based convex mixed-integer programming relaxations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Rohit Kannan , Harsha Nagarajan , Deepjyoti Deka

A fundamental problem in numerical analysis and approximation theory is approximating smooth functions by polynomials. A much harder version under recent consideration is to enforce bounds constraints on the approximating polynomial. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Larry Allen , Robert C. Kirby

We begin by establishing structural results for several fundamental quantum complexity classes: p/mBQP, p/mQ(C)MA, $\text{p/mQSZK}_{\text{hv}}$, p/mQIP, p/mBQP/qpoly, p/mBQP/poly, and p/mPSPACE. This includes identifying complete problems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Nai-Hui Chia , Kai-Min Chung , Tzu-Hsiang Huang , Jhih-Wei Shih

We establish a classical heuristic algorithm for exactly computing quantum probability amplitudes. Our algorithm is based on mapping output probability amplitudes of quantum circuits to evaluations of the Tutte polynomial of graphic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Ryan L. Mann

A celebrated important result due to Freedman, Larsen and Wang states that providing additive approximations of the Jones polynomial at the k'th root of unity, for constant k=5 and k>6, is BQP-hard. Together with the algorithmic results of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad