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Machine Learning algorithms are extensively used in an increasing number of systems, applications, technologies, and products, both in industry and in society as a whole. They enable computing devices to learn from previous experience and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Lucas Lamata

Recommender systems are crucial tools to overcome the information overload brought about by the Internet. Rigorous tests are needed to establish to what extent sophisticated methods can improve the quality of the predictions. Here we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-09-19 Marcel Blattner , Alexander Hunziker , Paolo Laureti

Computing systems interacting with real-world processes must safely and reliably process uncertain data. The Monte Carlo method is a popular approach for computing with such uncertain values. This article introduces a framework for…

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud

Fuelled by increasing computer power and algorithmic advances, machine learning techniques have become powerful tools for finding patterns in data. Since quantum systems produce counter-intuitive patterns believed not to be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Jacob Biamonte , Peter Wittek , Nicola Pancotti , Patrick Rebentrost , Nathan Wiebe , Seth Lloyd

In modelling complex processes, the potential past data that influence future expectations are immense. Models that track all this data are not only computationally wasteful but also shed little light on what past data most influence the…

Classical optimization algorithms in machine learning often take a long time to compute when applied to a multi-dimensional problem and require a huge amount of CPU and GPU resource. Quantum parallelism has a potential to speed up machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Venkat R. Dasari , Mee Seong Im , Lubjana Beshaj

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new analytical framework dedicated to measuring performance of recommender systems. The standard approach is to assess the quality of a system by means of accuracy related statistics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Szymon Chojnacki , Mieczysław Kłopotek

A quantum Monte Carlo method with non-local update scheme is presented. The method is based on a path-integral decomposition and a worm operator which is local in imaginary time. It generates states with a fixed number of particles and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kris Van Houcke , Stefan Rombouts , Lode Pollet

The knowledge engineering bottleneck is still a major challenge in configurator projects. In this paper we show how recommender systems can support knowledge base development and maintenance processes. We discuss a couple of scenarios for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Alexander Felfernig , Stefan Reiterer , Martin Stettinger , Florian Reinfrank , Michael Jeran , Gerald Ninaus

We develop Monte Carlo methods for sampling random states and corresponding bit strings in qubit systems. To this end, we derive exact probability density functions that yield the Porter-Thomas distribution in the limit of large systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Andreas Raab

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Internet greatly increases the necessity of effective recommender systems for filtering the abundant information. Extensive research for recommender systems is conducted by a broad range of communities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-04 Linyuan Lü , Matus Medo , Chi Ho Yeung , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Zi-Ke Zhang , Tao Zhou

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

In this article, we will research the Recommender System's implementation about how it works and the algorithms used. We will explain the Recommender System's algorithms based on mathematical principles, and find feasible methods for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Fu Chen , Junkang Zou , Lingfeng Zhou , Zekai Xu , Zhenyu Wu

Quantum computing for the biological sciences is an area of rapidly growing interest, but specific industrial applications remain elusive. Quantum Markov chain Monte Carlo has been proposed as a method for accelerating a broad class of…

The promise of quantum computing to open new unexplored possibilities in several scientific fields has been long discussed, but until recently the lack of a functional quantum computer has confined this discussion mostly to theoretical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Riccardo Nembrini , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

This thesis consists of four parts: - An analysis of the core functions and the prerequisites for recommender systems in an industrial context: we identify four core functions for recommendation systems: Help do Decide, Help to Compare,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Frank Meyer

This paper presents a Multi-Agent approach to the problem of recommending training courses to engineering professionals. The recommendation system is built as a proof of concept and limited to the electrical and mechanical engineering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vukosi N. Marivate , George Ssali , Tshilidzi Marwala

We present a new quantum Monte Carlo algorithm suitable for generically complex problems, such as systems coupled to external magnetic fields or anyons in two spatial dimensions. We find that the choice of gauge plays a nontrivial role, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lizeng Zhang , Geoff Canright , Ted Barnes

Computational methods both open the frontiers of economic analysis and serve as a bottleneck in what can be achieved. We are the first to study whether Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm can improve the runtime of economic applications and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Vladimir Skavysh , Sofia Priazhkina , Diego Guala , Thomas R. Bromley