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We study quantum-classical separations between classical and quantum supervised learning models based on constant depth (i.e., shallow) circuits, in scenarios with and without noises. We construct a classification problem defined by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Zhihan Zhang , Weiyuan Gong , Weikang Li , Dong-Ling Deng

The problem of learning Boolean linear functions from quantum examples w.r.t. the uniform distribution can be solved on a quantum computer using the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm. A similar strategy can be applied in the case of noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Matthias C. Caro

We compare quantum and classical machines designed for learning an N-bit Boolean function in order to address how a quantum system improves the machine learning behavior. The machines of the two types consist of the same number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Seokwon Yoo , Jeongho Bang , Changhyoup Lee , Jinhyoung Lee

The Forrelation problem is a central problem that demonstrates an exponential separation between quantum and classical capabilities. In this problem, given query access to $n$-bit Boolean functions $f$ and $g$, the goal is to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Uma Girish , Rocco Servedio

The standard model of quantum circuits assumes operations are applied in a fixed sequential "causal" order. In recent years, the possibility of relaxing this constraint to obtain causally indefinite computations has received significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Alastair A. Abbott , Mehdi Mhalla , Pierre Pocreau

We present several families of total boolean functions which have exact quantum query complexity which is a constant multiple (between 1/2 and 2/3) of their classical query complexity, and show that optimal quantum algorithms for these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ashley Montanaro , Richard Jozsa , Graeme Mitchison

In this work we revisit the Boolean Hidden Matching communication problem, which was the first communication problem in the one-way model to demonstrate an exponential classical-quantum communication separation. In this problem, Alice's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 João F. Doriguello , Ashley Montanaro

Symmetries have been exploited successfully within the realms of SAT and QBF to improve solver performance in practical applications and to devise more powerful proof systems. As a first step towards extending these advancements to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Clemens Hofstadler , Manuel Kauers , Martina Seidl

Early in 1992, Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm computed a symmetric partial Boolean function with a single quantum query, and thus achieved the best separation between classical deterministic and exact quantum query complexity. Until recent years,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Xu Guoliang , Qiu Daowen

Quantum theory is consistent with a computational model permitting black-box operations to be applied in an indefinite causal order, going beyond the standard circuit model of computation. The quantum switch -- the simplest such example --…

A recent line of work has shown the unconditional advantage of constant-depth quantum computation, or $\mathsf{QNC^0}$, over $\mathsf{NC^0}$, $\mathsf{AC^0}$, and related models of classical computation. Problems exhibiting this advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Joseph Slote

We study the $\textit{average-case deterministic query complexity}$ of boolean functions under a $\textit{uniform input distribution}$, denoted by $\mathrm{D}_\mathrm{ave}(f)$, the minimum average depth of zero-error decision trees that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuan Li , Haowei Wu , Yi Yang

The goal in the area of functions property testing is to determine whether a given black-box Boolean function has a particular given property or is $\varepsilon$-far from having that property. We investigate here several types of properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Zhengwei Xie , Daowen Qiu , Guangya Cai , Jozef Gruska , Paulo Mateus

This article investigates the probabilistic relationship between quantum classification of Boolean functions and their Hamming distance. By integrating concepts from quantum computing, information theory, and combinatorics, we explore how…

We will show that if there exists a quantum query algorithm that exactly computes some total Boolean function f by making T queries, then there is a classical deterministic algorithm A that exactly computes f making O(T^3) queries. The best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gatis Midrijanis

The paper presents the first nontrivial upper and lower bounds for (non-oblivious) quantum read-once branching programs. It is shown that the computational power of quantum and classical read-once branching programs is incomparable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Sauerhoff

We study a natural complexity measure of Boolean functions known as the rational degree. Denoted $\textrm{rdeg}(f)$, it is the minimal degree of a rational function that is equal to $f$ on the Boolean hypercube. For total functions $f$, it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Vishnu Iyer , Siddhartha Jain , Robin Kothari , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Vinayak M. Kumar , Luke Schaeffer , Daochen Wang , Michael Whitmeyer

Quantum entanglement describes superposition states in multi-dimensional systems, at least two partite, which cannot be factorized and are thus non-separable. Non-separable states exist also in classical theories involving vector spaces. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Natalia Korolkova , Luis Sánchez-Soto , Gerd Leuchs

The divide-and-conquer framework, used extensively in classical algorithm design, recursively breaks a problem of size $n$ into smaller subproblems (say, $a$ copies of size $n/b$ each), along with some auxiliary work of cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Aarthi Sundaram , Daochen Wang

For any $n$-bit boolean function $f$, we show that the randomized communication complexity of the composed function $f\circ g^n$, where $g$ is an index gadget, is characterized by the randomized decision tree complexity of $f$. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Mika Göös , Toniann Pitassi , Thomas Watson