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Quantum-phase-estimation algorithms are critical subroutines in many applications for quantum computers and in quantum-metrology protocols. These algorithms estimate the unknown strength of a unitary evolution. By using coherence or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Joseph G. Smith , Crispin H. W. Barnes , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur

The problem of minimizing the maximum of $N$ convex, Lipschitz functions plays significant roles in optimization and machine learning. It has a series of results, with the most recent one requiring $O(N\epsilon^{-2/3} + \epsilon^{-8/3})$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Hao Wang , Chenyi Zhang , Tongyang Li

Coverings of convex bodies have emerged as a central component in the design of efficient solutions to approximation problems involving convex bodies. Intuitively, given a convex body $K$ and $\epsilon> 0$, a covering is a collection of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

Union volume estimation is a classical algorithmic problem. Given a family of objects $O_1,\ldots,O_n \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, we want to approximate the volume of their union. In the special case where all objects are boxes (also known as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Karl Bringmann , Kasper Green Larsen , André Nusser , Eva Rotenberg , Yanheng Wang

Accurate body weight estimation is critical in emergency medicine for proper dosing of weight-based medications, yet direct measurement is often impractical in urgent situations. This paper presents a non-invasive method for estimating body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Vivek Ganesh Sonar , Muhammad Tanveer Jan , Mike Wells , Abhijit Pandya , Gabriela Engstrom , Richard Shih , Borko Furht

In 1948, Fritz John proposed a theorem stating that every convex body has a unique maximal volume inscribed ellipsoid, known as the John ellipsoid. The John ellipsoid has become fundamental in mathematics, with extensive applications in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiaoyu Li , Zhao Song , Junwei Yu

With nowadays steadily growing quantum processors, it is required to develop new quantum tomography tools that are tailored for high-dimensional systems. In this work, we describe such a computational tool, based on recent ideas from…

Quantum amplitude estimation is a key sub-routine of a number of quantum algorithms with various applications. We propose an adaptive algorithm for interval estimation of amplitudes. The quantum part of the algorithm is based only on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Yunpeng Zhao , Haiyan Wang , Kuai Xu , Yue Wang , Ji Zhu , Feng Wang

High-dimensional datasets typically cluster around lower-dimensional manifolds but are also often marred by severe noise, obscuring the intrinsic geometry essential for downstream learning tasks. We present a quantum algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tuan K. Do , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Trung V. Phan

The problem of efficient multiplication of large numbers has been a long-standing challenge in classical computation and has been extensively studied for centuries. It appears that the existing classical algorithms are close to their…

We propose an iterative method for approximating the capacity of classical-quantum channels with a discrete input alphabet and a finite dimensional output, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 David Sutter , Tobias Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Renato Renner

Functions are a fundamental object in mathematics, with countless applications to different fields, and are usually classified based on certain properties, given their domains and images. An important property of a real-valued function is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We present quantum algorithms for the estimation of n-time correlation functions, the local and non-local density of states, and dynamical linear response functions. These algorithms are all based on block-encodings - a versatile technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Patrick Rall

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

Approximating convex bodies is a fundamental question in geometry, which has a wide variety of applications. Given a convex body $K$ in $\textbf{R}^d$ for fixed $d$, the objective is to minimize the number of facets of an approximating…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Sunil Arya , David M. Mount

We present an efficient quantum algorithm aiming to find the negative curvature direction for escaping the saddle point, which is the critical subroutine for many second-order non-convex optimization algorithms. We prove that our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Kaining Zhang , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Liu Liu , Dacheng Tao

A new intrinsic volume metric is introduced for the class of convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$. As an application, an inequality is proved for the asymptotic best approximation of the Euclidean unit ball by arbitrarily positioned polytopes…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Florian Besau , Steven Hoehner

We propose quantum algorithms, purely quantum in nature, for calculating the determinant and inverse of an $(N-1)\times (N-1)$ matrix (depth is $O(N^2\log N)$) which is a simple modification of the algorithm for calculating the determinant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alexander I. Zenchuk , Georgii A. Bochkin , Wentao Qi , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

We provide several quantum algorithms for continuous optimization that do not require gradient estimation. Instead, we encode the optimization problem into the dynamics of a physical system and coherently simulate the time evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ahmet Burak Catli , Sophia Simon , Nathan Wiebe

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We present an efficient $O (n + 1/\varepsilon^{4.5})$-time algorithm for computing a $(1+\varepsilon$)-approximation of the minimum-volume bounding box of $n$ points in $\Re^3$. We also present a simpler…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Gill Barequet , Sariel Har-Peled