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In a landmark result, Linial, Mansour and Nisan (J. ACM 1993) gave a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for learning constant-depth circuits given labeled i.i.d. samples under the uniform distribution. Their work has had a deep and lasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Jason Gaitonde , Ankur Moitra , Arsen Vasilyan

In this work, we propose a new way to (non-interactively, verifiably) demonstrate quantum advantage by solving the average-case $\mathsf{NP}$ search problem of finding a solution to a system of (underdetermined) constant degree multivariate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Pierre Briaud , Itai Dinur , Riddhi Ghosal , Aayush Jain , Paul Lou , Amit Sahai

Several well-studied models of access to data samples, including statistical queries, local differential privacy and low-communication algorithms rely on queries that provide information about a function of a single sample. (For example, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Vitaly Feldman , Badih Ghazi

We propose a learning model called the quantum statistical learning QSQ model, which extends the SQ learning model introduced by Kearns to the quantum setting. Our model can be also seen as a restriction of the quantum PAC learning model:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Alex B. Grilo , Henry Yuen

One of the key challenges in quantum machine learning is finding relevant machine learning tasks with a provable quantum advantage. A natural candidate for this is learning unknown Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we tackle the supervised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Alice Barthe , Mahtab Yaghubi Rad , Michele Grossi , Vedran Dunjko

Learning intersections of halfspaces is a central problem in Computational Learning Theory. Even for just two halfspaces, it remains a major open question whether learning is possible in polynomial time with respect to the margin $\gamma$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Mingchen Ma , Lisheng Ren , Christos Tzamos

Model counting of Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) formulas is a critical problem in applications such as probabilistic inference and network reliability. For example, it is often used for query evaluation in probabilistic databases. Due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Paul Burkhardt , David G. Harris , Kevin T Schmitt

In this article, we study the problem of enumerating the models of DNF formulas. The aim is to provide enumeration algorithms with a delay that depends polynomially on the size of each model and not on the size of the formula, which can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Florent Capelli , Yann Strozecki

We establish the first general connection between the design of quantum algorithms and circuit lower bounds. Specifically, let $\mathfrak{C}$ be a class of polynomial-size concepts, and suppose that $\mathfrak{C}$ can be PAC-learned with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Alex B. Grilo , Tom Gur , Igor C. Oliveira , Aarthi Sundaram

We study the efficient learnability of low-degree polynomial threshold functions (PTFs) in the presence of a constant fraction of adversarial corruptions. Our main algorithmic result is a polynomial-time PAC learning algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Sihan Liu , Nikos Zarifis

We consider the problem of distribution-free learning for Boolean function classes in the PAC and agnostic models. Generalizing a beautiful work of Malach and Shalev-Shwartz (2022) that gave tight correlational SQ (CSQ) lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Aravind Gollakota , Sushrut Karmalkar , Adam Klivans

Recent work due to Goel et al. gave the first efficient algorithms for learning with distribution shift in the challenging PQ framework. In this setting, a learner receives labeled training examples, unlabeled test examples, and must make…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Georgios Gkrinias , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We use differentiable programming and gradient descent to find unitary matrices that can be used in the period finding algorithm to extract period information from the state of a quantum computer post application of the oracle. The standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 John George Francis , Anil Shaji

We study several questions in the reliable agnostic learning framework of Kalai et al. (2009), which captures learning tasks in which one type of error is costlier than others. A positive reliable classifier is one that makes no false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Varun Kanade , Justin Thaler

Quantum machine learning has the potential for broad industrial applications, and the development of quantum algorithms for improving the performance of neural networks is of particular interest given the central role they play in machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jonathan Allcock , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Iordanis Kerenidis , Shengyu Zhang

We give an efficient algorithm for learning a binary function in a given class C of bounded VC dimension, with training data distributed according to P and test data according to Q, where P and Q may be arbitrary distributions over X. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Adam Kalai , Varun Kanade

In this paper we study the quantum learnability of constant-depth classical circuits under the uniform distribution and in the distribution-independent framework of PAC learning. In order to attain our results, we establish connections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Alex B. Grilo , Aarthi Sundaram

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) and their applications in the field of quantum machine learning through parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) are thought to be one major way of leveraging noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Dirk Heimann , Hans Hohenfeld , Gunnar Schönhoff , Elie Mounzer , Frank Kirchner

This paper revisits the problem of learning a k-CNF Boolean function from examples in the context of online learning under the logarithmic loss. In doing so, we give a Bayesian interpretation to one of Valiant's celebrated PAC learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Joel Veness , Marcus Hutter

We consider PAC learning of probability distributions (a.k.a. density estimation), where we are given an i.i.d. sample generated from an unknown target distribution, and want to output a distribution that is close to the target in total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Hassan Ashtiani , Shai Ben-David , Abbas Mehrabian