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Channel capacities quantify the optimal rates of sending information reliably over noisy channels. Usually, the study of capacities assumes that the circuits which sender and receiver use for encoding and decoding consist of perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Paula Belzig , Matthias Christandl , Alexander Müller-Hermes

Neural image compression has been shown to outperform traditional image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, quantization introduces errors in the compression process, which can degrade the quality of the compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Wei Luo , Bo Chen

Quantum decoherence due to imperfect manipulation of quantum devices is a key issue in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Standard analyses in quantum information and quantum computation use error rates to parameterize quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Yuchen Guo , Shuo Yang

We give a short proof that the coherent information is an achievable rate for the transmission of quantum information through a noisy quantum channel. Our method is to produce random codes by performing a unitarily covariant projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Patrick Hayden , Michal Horodecki , Andreas Winter , Jon Yard

To get the best possible results from current quantum devices error mitigation is essential. In this work we present a simple but effective error mitigation technique based on the assumption that noise in a deep quantum circuit is well…

In this paper, we propose test-time training with the quantum auto-encoder (QTTT). QTTT adapts to (1) data distribution shifts between training and testing data and (2) quantum circuit error by minimizing the self-supervised loss of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Damien Jian , Yu-Chao Huang , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Quantization is an essential step in the analog-to-digital conversion process and it is very important in all modern telecommunication systems. In this paper, a novel chaotic uniform quantizer is proposed and its application for speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-15 Osama A. S. Alkishriwo

Measurements are a vital part of any quantum computation, whether as a final step to retrieve results, as an intermediate step to inform subsequent operations, or as part of the computation itself (as in measurement-based quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Stefanie J. Beale , Joel J. Wallman

It is well known that lossless compression of a discrete memoryless source with near-uniform encoder output is possible at a rate above its entropy if and only if the encoder is randomized. This work focuses on deriving conditions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Badri N Vellambi , Joerg Kliewer , Matthieu Bloch

This paper considers estimation of a quantized constant in noise when using uniform and nonuniform quantizers. Estimators based on simple arithmetic averages, on sample statistical moments and on the maximum-likelihood procedure are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-30 Antonio Moschitta , Johan Schoukens , Paolo Carbone

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance communication efficiency in federated learning through clipped uniform quantization. By leveraging optimal clipping thresholds and client-specific adaptive quantization schemes, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zavareh Bozorgasl , Hao Chen

Quantum noise is conventionally viewed as a fundamental obstacle in near-term quantum computing, motivating extensive error correction and mitigation strategies. We present numerical evidence that challenges this consensus. Through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Linghua Zhu , Yulong Dong , Ziyu Zhang , Xiaosong Li

In this paper we introduce a way to quantify the noise level associated to a given quantum transformation. The key mechanism lying at the heart of the proposal is "noise addition": in other words we compute the amount of extra noise we need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Antonella De Pasquale , Vittorio Giovannetti

The quantum channel decomposition techniques, which contain the so-called probabilistic error cancellation and gate/wire cutting, are powerful approach for simulating a hard-to-implement (or an ideal) unitary operation by concurrently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Ryo Nagai , Shu Kanno , Yuki Sato , Naoki Yamamoto

We investigate an efficient quantum error correction of a fully correlated noise. Suppose the noise is characterized by a quantum channel whose error operators take fully correlated forms given by $\sigma_x^{\otimes n}$, $\sigma_y^{\otimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Chi-Kwong Li , Mikio Nakahara , Yiu-Tung Poon , Nung-Sing Sze , Hiroyuki Tomita

How can we quantize large language models while preserving accuracy? Quantization is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) efficiently. Binary-coding quantization (BCQ) and uniform quantization (UQ) are promising quantization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Seungcheol Park , Jeongin Bae , Beomseok Kwon , Minjun Kim , Byeongwook Kim , Se Jung Kwon , U Kang , Dongsoo Lee

In this paper we address the issue of universal or robust communication over quantum channels. Specifically, we consider memoryless communication scenario with channel uncertainty which is an analog of compound channel in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Bjelakovic , H. Boche , J. Noetzel

Entanglement and entanglement-assisted are useful resources to enhance the mutual information of the Pauli channels, when the noise on consecutive uses of the channel has some partial correlations. In this paper, We study quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fahmi

When it comes to image compression in digital cameras, denoising is traditionally performed prior to compression. However, there are applications where image noise may be necessary to demonstrate the trustworthiness of the image, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

Unitary errors, such as those arising from fault-tolerant compilation of quantum algorithms, systematically bias observable estimates. Correcting this bias typically requires additional resources, such as an increased number of non-Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Dmitrii Khitrin , Kenneth R. Brown , Abhinav Anand