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Given two families of quantum states $A$ and $B$, called the null and the alternative hypotheses, quantum hypothesis testing is the task of determining whether an unknown quantum state belongs to $A$ or $B$. Mistaking $A$ for $B$ is a type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ludovico Lami

We show that $n = \Omega(rd/\varepsilon^2)$ copies are necessary to learn a rank $r$ mixed state $\rho \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ up to error $\varepsilon$ in trace distance. This matches the upper bound of $n = O(rd/\varepsilon^2)$ from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thilo Scharnhorst , Jack Spilecki , John Wright

In the task of discriminating between nonorthogonal quantum states from multiple copies, the key parameters are the error probability and the resources (number of copies) used. Previous studies have considered the task of minimizing the…

We study a variant of quantum hypothesis testing wherein an additional 'inconclusive' measurement outcome is added, allowing one to abstain from attempting to discriminate the hypotheses. The error probabilities are then conditioned on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Mark M. Wilde

In this paper, we study the hypothesis testing problem of, among $n$ random variables, determining $k$ random variables which have different probability distributions from the rest $(n-k)$ random variables. Instead of using separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Weiyu Xu , Lifeng Lai

The discrimination between non-orthogonal quantum states plays a pivotal role in quantum information processing and quantum technology. Strategies that minimize the error probability are of particular importance, but they are only known for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Bayesian classification labels observations based on given prior information, namely class-a priori and class-conditional probabilities. Bayes' risk is the minimum expected classification cost that is achieved by the Bayes' test, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Frank Nielsen

Quantum hypothesis testing concerns the discrimination between quantum states. This paper introduces a novel lower bound for asymmetric quantum hypothesis testing that is based on the Nussbaum-Szko{\l}a mapping. The lower bound provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jorge Lizarribar-Carrillo , Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar , Tobias Koch

We study quantum hypothesis testing between orthogonal states under restricted local measurements in the many-copy scenario. For testing arbitrary multipartite entangled pure state against its orthogonal complement state via the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Hao-Chung Cheng , Andreas Winter , Nengkun Yu

We provide a bound on the minimum error when discriminating among quantum states, using the no-signaling principle. The bound is general in that it depends on neither dimensions nor specific structures of given quantum states to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Won-Young Hwang , Joonwoo Bae

Given a sequence of random variables $X^n=X_1,\ldots, X_n$, discriminating between two hypotheses on the underlying probability distribution is a key task in statistics and information theory. Of interest here is the Stein exponent, i.e.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ludovico Lami

Minimum error state discrimination between two mixed states \rho and \sigma can be aided by the receipt of "classical side information" specifying which states from some convex decompositions of \rho and \sigma apply in each run. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Matthew F. Pusey , Terry Rudolph

We study the composite sequential quantum hypothesis testing (SQHT) problem, where the objective is to distinguish a null quantum state from a set of alternative quantum states. We propose a mixture-sequential quantum probability ratio test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jacob Paul Simpson , Efstratios Palias , Sharu Theresa Jose

Relating to finding possible upper bounds for the probability of error for discriminating between two quantum states, it is well-known that \begin{align*} \mathrm{tr}(A+B) - \mathrm{tr}|A-B|\leq 2\, \mathrm{tr}\big(f(A)g(B)\big)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Mohsen Kian , Trung Hoa Dinh , Mohammad Sal Moslehian , Hiroyuki Osaka

In the problem of asymptotic binary i.i.d. state discrimination, the optimal asymptotics of the type I and the type II error probabilities is in general an exponential decrease to zero as a function of the number of samples; the set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Gergely Bunth , Gábor Maróti , Milán Mosonyi , Zoltán Zimborás

In a general optimized measurement scheme for discriminating between nonorthogonal quantum states, the error rate is minimized under the constraint of a fixed rate of inconclusive outcomes (FRIO). This so-called optimal FRIO measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 L. F. Melo , M. A. Solís-Prosser , O. Jiménez , A. Delgado , L. Neves

Error probability is a popular and well-studied optimization criterion in discriminating non-orthogonal quantum states. It captures the threat from an adversary who can only query the actual state once. However, when the adversary is able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Weien Chen , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yuan Feng

Quantum channel discrimination is a fundamental problem in quantum information science. In this study, we consider general quantum channel discrimination problems, and derive the lower bounds of the error probability. Our lower bounds are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Ryo Ito , Ryuhei Mori

An instance of a group testing problem is a set of objects $\cO$ and an unknown subset $P$ of $\cO$. The task is to determine $P$ by using queries of the type ``does $P$ intersect $Q$'', where $Q$ is a subset of $\cO$. This problem occurs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Emanuel Knill

We consider the classical sequential binary hypothesis testing problem in which there are two hypotheses governed respectively by distributions $P_0$ and $P_1$ and we would like to decide which hypothesis is true using a sequential test. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Yonglong Li , Vincent Y. F. Tan