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We propose an estimation method for quantum measurement tomography (QMT) based on semidefinite programming (SDP), and discuss how it may be employed to detect experimental imperfections, such as shot noise and/or faulty preparation of the…

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental convex optimization problem with wide-ranging applications. However, solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging due to the high cost of solving linear systems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Hantao Nie , Dong An , Zaiwen Wen

Bi-level optimization model is able to capture a wide range of complex learning tasks with practical interest. Due to the witnessed efficiency in solving bi-level programs, gradient-based methods have gained popularity in the machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Risheng Liu , Xuan Liu , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

We propose an efficient quantum protocol performing quantum bit commitment, which is a simple cryptographic primitive involved with two parties, called a committer and a verifier. Our protocol is non-interactive, uses no supplemental shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Tomoyuki Yamakami

In this paper, we present new optimization models for Support Vector Machine (SVM), with the aim of separating data points in two or more classes. The classification task is handled by means of nonlinear classifiers induced by kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Francesca Maggioni , Andrea Spinelli

Image segmentation is a very popular and important task in computer vision. In this paper, inverse quantum Fourier transform (IQFT) for image segmentation has been explored and a novel IQFT-inspired algorithm is proposed and implemented by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Taoreed Akinola , Xiangfang Li , Richard Wilkins , Pamela Obiomon , Lijun Qian

In the contexts of automated reasoning (AR) and formal verification (FV), important decision problems are effectively encoded into Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). In the last decade efficient SMT solvers have been developed for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Roberto Sebastiani , Silvia Tomasi

We introduce two methods for quantum process and detector tomography. In the quantum process tomography method, we develop an analytical procedure for projecting the linear inversion estimation of a quantum channel onto the set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Júlia Barberà-Rodríguez , Leonardo Zambrano , Antonio Acín , Donato Farina

In this paper, we describe a novel unsupervised learning scheme for accelerating the solution of a family of mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. Distinct substantially from existing learning-to-optimize methods, our proposal seeks to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Shiyuan Qu , Fenglian Dong , Zhiwei Wei , Chao Shang

This paper is to analyze the approximation solution of a split variational inclusion problem in the framework of infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. For this purpose, several inertial hybrid and shrinking projection algorithms are proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Zheng Zhou , Bing Tan , Songxiao Li

We consider a class of nonsmooth fractional programming problems with fixed-point constraints, where the numerator is convex and the denominator is concave. To solve this problem, we propose splitting algorithms that compute subgradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Mootta Prangprakhon , Nimit Nimana

The Bayes-Adaptive Markov Decision Process (BAMDP) formalism pursues the Bayes-optimal solution to the exploration-exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning. As the computation of exact solutions to Bayesian reinforcement-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Dilip Arumugam , Satinder Singh

This paper introduces the 2019 version of \us{}, a novel Constraint Programming framework for floating point verification problems expressed with the SMT language of SMTLIB. SMT solvers decompose their task by delegating to specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Heytem Zitoun , Claude Michel , Laurent Michel , Michel Rueher

Vision transformers have gained significant attention and achieved state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, including image classification, instance segmentation, and object detection. However, challenges remain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Badri N. Patro , Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran

The transformer architectures with attention mechanisms have obtained success in Nature Language Processing (NLP), and Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently extended the application domains to various vision tasks. While achieving high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mengshu Sun , Haoyu Ma , Guoliang Kang , Yifan Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Zhangyang Wang , Yanzhi Wang

For the binary classification problem, a novel nonlinear kernel-free quadratic hyper-surface support vector machine with 0-1 loss function (QSSVM$_{0/1}$) is proposed. Specifically, the task of QSSVM$_{0/1}$ is to seek a quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Mingyang Wu , Zhixia Yang , Junyou Ye

In the contexts of automated reasoning and formal verification, important decision problems are effectively encoded into Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). In the last decade efficient SMT solvers have been developed for several theories…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-08 Roberto Sebastiani , Silvia Tomasi

In 1998, Brassard, Hoyer, Mosca, and Tapp (BHMT) gave a quantum algorithm for approximate counting. Given a list of $N$ items, $K$ of them marked, their algorithm estimates $K$ to within relative error $\varepsilon$ by making only $O\left(…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Scott Aaronson , Patrick Rall

This work focuses on effectively generating diverse solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) formulas, targeting the theories of bit-vectors, arrays, and uninterpreted functions, which is a critical task in software and hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuangyu Lyu , Chuan Luo , Ruizhi Shi , Wei Wu , Chanjuan Liu , Chunming Hu

We propose an explicit algorithm based on the Linear Combination of Hamiltonian Simulations technique to simulate both the advection-diffusion equation and a nonunitary discretized version of the Koopman-von Neumann formulation of nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Ivan Novikau , Ilon Joseph