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We study the computation of the $\alpha$-R\'enyi capacity of a classical-quantum (c-q) channel for $\alpha\in(0,1)$. We propose an exponentiated-gradient (mirror descent) iteration that generalizes the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm. Our analysis…

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