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Quantum computing offers fundamentally more expressive mechanisms for generative modeling, yet current approaches remain constrained by classical neural components that bottleneck quantum capability and hardware efficiency. We propose the…

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We study the computational relationship between replicability (Impagliazzo et al. [STOC `22], Ghazi et al. [NeurIPS `21]) and other stability notions. Specifically, we focus on replicable PAC learning and its connections to differential…

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The goal of a learning algorithm is to receive a training data set as input and provide a hypothesis that can generalize to all possible data points from a domain set. The hypothesis is chosen from hypothesis classes with potentially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-29 Soosan Beheshti , Mahdi Shamsi

Generative modeling has seen a rising interest in both classical and quantum machine learning, and it represents a promising candidate to obtain a practical quantum advantage in the near term. In this study, we build over a proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Marta Mauri , Juan Carrasquilla , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

In most real-world applications of artificial intelligence, the distributions of the data and the goals of the learners tend to change over time. The Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework, which underpins most machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuxin Bai , Cecelia Shuai , Ashwin De Silva , Siyu Yu , Pratik Chaudhari , Joshua T. Vogelstein

This paper is about the recent notion of computably probably approximately correct learning, which lies between the statistical learning theory where there is no computational requirement on the learner and efficient PAC where the learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Matthew Harrison-Trainor , Syed Akbari

Carmosino et al. (2016) demonstrated that natural proofs of circuit lower bounds for $\Lambda$ imply efficient algorithms for learning $\Lambda$-circuits, but only over \textit{the uniform distribution}, with \textit{membership queries},…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ari Karchmer

Quantum computers are believed to bring computational advantages in simulating quantum many body systems. However, recent works have shown that classical machine learning algorithms are able to predict numerous properties of quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Riccardo Molteni , Casper Gyurik , Vedran Dunjko

We present a formal proof in Lean of probably approximately correct (PAC) learnability of the concept class of decision stumps. This classic result in machine learning theory derives a bound on error probabilities for a simple type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Joseph Tassarotti , Koundinya Vajjha , Anindya Banerjee , Jean-Baptiste Tristan

This note serves three purposes: (i) we provide a self-contained exposition of the fact that conjunctive queries are not efficiently learnable in the Probably-Approximately-Correct (PAC) model, paying clear attention to the complicating…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Balder ten Cate , Maurice Funk , Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz

We propose an approach to generative quantum machine learning that overcomes the fundamental scaling issues of variational quantum circuits. The core idea is to use a class of generative models based on instantaneous quantum polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Erik Recio-Armengol , Shahnawaz Ahmed , Joseph Bowles

Probably Approximately Correct (i.e., PAC) learning is a core concept of sample complexity theory, and efficient PAC learnability is often seen as a natural counterpart to the class P in classical computational complexity. But while the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Cornelius Brand , Robert Ganian , Kirill Simonov

We examine the relationship between learnability and robust (or agnostic) learnability for the problem of distribution learning. We show that, contrary to other learning settings (e.g., PAC learning of function classes), realizable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Shai Ben-David , Alex Bie , Gautam Kamath , Tosca Lechner

The most general examples of quantum learning advantages involve data labeled by cryptographic or intrinsically quantum functions, where classical learners are limited by the infeasibility of evaluating the labeling functions using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Riccardo Molteni , Simon C. Marshall , Vedran Dunjko

We study contrastive learning under the PAC learning framework. While a series of recent works have shown statistical results for learning under contrastive loss, based either on the VC-dimension or Rademacher complexity, their algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jie Shen

The task of learning a probability distribution from samples is ubiquitous across the natural sciences. The output distributions of local quantum circuits form a particularly interesting class of distributions, of key importance both to…

In recent years, deep learning has had a profound impact on machine learning and artificial intelligence. At the same time, algorithms for quantum computers have been shown to efficiently solve some problems that are intractable on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Nathan Wiebe , Ashish Kapoor , Krysta M. Svore

Machine learning models are used for pattern recognition analysis of big data, without direct human intervention. The task of unsupervised learning is to find the probability distribution that would best describe the available data, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Apoorva D. Patel

The power of quantum computers is still somewhat speculative. While they are certainly faster than classical ones at some tasks, the class of problems they can efficiently solve has not been mapped definitively onto known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 N. H. Nguyen , E. C. Behrman , M. A. Moustafa , J. E. Steck

We investigate the transition from quantum to classical mechanics using a one-dimensional free particle model. In the classical analysis, we consider the initial positions and velocities of the particle drawn from Gaussian distributions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 E. Aldo Arroyo