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Quantum error correction of a surface code or repetition code requires the pairwise matching of error events in a space-time graph of qubit measurements, such that the total weight of the matching is minimized. The input weights follow from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 S. T. Spitz , B. Tarasinski , C. W. J. Beenakker , T. E. O'Brien

We propose a general framework for decoding quantum error-correcting codes with generative modeling. The model utilizes autoregressive neural networks, specifically Transformers, to learn the joint probability of logical operators and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Hanyan Cao , Feng Pan , Yijia Wang , Pan Zhang

Group testing is a well known search problem that consists in detecting up to $s$ defective elements of the set $[t]=\{1,\ldots,t\}$ by carrying out tests on properly chosen subsets of $[t]$. In classical group testing the goal is to find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

We propose an adaptive refinement algorithm to solve total variation regularized measure optimization problems. The method iteratively constructs dyadic partitions of the unit cube based on i) the resolution of discretized dual problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Axel Flinth , Frédéric de Gournay , Pierre Weiss

Distribution testing can be described as follows: $q$ samples are being drawn from some unknown distribution $P$ over a known domain $[n]$. After the sampling process, a decision must be made about whether $P$ holds some property, or is far…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Uri Meir

This paper presents a novel algorithm that leverages Stochastic Gradient Descent strategies in conjunction with Random Features to augment the scalability of Conic Particle Gradient Descent (CPGD) specifically tailored for solving sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Yohann De Castro , Sébastien Gadat , Clément Marteau

In the $k$-nearest neighborhood model ($k$-NN), we are given a set of points $P$, and we shall answer queries $q$ by returning the $k$ nearest neighbors of $q$ in $P$ according to some metric. This concept is crucial in many areas of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Dennis Rohde

We study group-testing algorithms for resolving broadcast conflicts on a multiple access channel (MAC) and for identifying the dead sensors in a mobile ad hoc wireless network. In group-testing algorithms, we are asked to identify all the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Michael T. Goodrich , Daniel S. Hirschberg

Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) aims to accurately estimate an individual's ability using only a subset of an Item Response Theory (IRT) instrument. Many applications also require diverse item exposure across testing sessions, preventing…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-01 Tina Su , Edison Choe , Joshua C. Chang

In distributed optimization problems, a technique called gradient coding, which involves replicating data points, has been used to mitigate the effect of straggling machines. Recent work has studied approximate gradient coding, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-09 Margalit Glasgow , Mary Wootters

It is known that any quantum algorithm for Graph Isomorphism that works within the framework of the hidden subgroup problem (HSP) must perform highly entangled measurements across Omega(n log n) coset states. One of the only known models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

Quantum state learning is a fundamental problem in physics and computer science. As near-term quantum devices are error-prone, it is important to design error-resistant algorithms. Apart from device errors, other unexpected factors could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Vladimir Braverman , Nai-Hui Chia , Yuhan Liu

We study the problem of group testing with non-identical, independent priors. So far, the pooling strategies that have been proposed in the literature take the following approach: a hand-crafted test design along with a decoding strategy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Pavlos Nikolopoulos , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

We study computational-statistical gaps for improper learning in sparse linear regression. More specifically, given $n$ samples from a $k$-sparse linear model in dimension $d$, we ask what is the minimum sample complexity to efficiently (in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Rares-Darius Buhai , Jingqiu Ding , Stefan Tiegel

In this paper, assuming the low-degree conjecture, we provide evidence of computational hardness for two problems: (1) the (partial) matching recovery problem in the sparse correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs $\mathcal G(n,q;\rho)$ when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Zhangsong Li

This paper proposes a novel parameter selection strategy for kernel-based gradient descent (KGD) algorithms, integrating bias-variance analysis with the splitting method. We introduce the concept of empirical effective dimension to quantify…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Xiaotong Liu , Yunwen Lei , Xiangyu Chang , Shao-Bo Lin

A combinatorial analysis of the false alarm (FA) and misdetection (MD) probabilities of non-adaptive group testing with sparse pooling graphs is developed. The analysis targets the combinatorial orthogonal matching pursuit and definite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Emna Ben Yacoub , Gianluigi Liva , Enrico Paolini , Marco Chiani

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm can naturally be applied to combinatorial search problems on graphs. The quantum circuit has p applications of a unitary operator that respects the locality of the graph. On a graph with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Edward Farhi , David Gamarnik , Sam Gutmann

In this paper, we consider the mixture of sparse linear regressions model. Let ${\beta}^{(1)},\ldots,{\beta}^{(L)}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ be $ L $ unknown sparse parameter vectors with a total of $ K $ non-zero coefficients. Noisy linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Dong Yin , Ramtin Pedarsani , Yudong Chen , Kannan Ramchandran

This paper presents a methodology for using varying sample sizes in sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods for solving equality constrained stochastic optimization problems. The first part of the paper deals with the delicate issue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Baoyu Zhou