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We address the problem of solving a system of linear equations via the Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT). One drawback of the QSVT algorithm is that it requires huge quantum resources if we want to achieve an acceptable accuracy.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Océane Koska , Marc Baboulin , Arnaud Gazda

With nowadays steadily growing quantum processors, it is required to develop new quantum tomography tools that are tailored for high-dimensional systems. In this work, we describe such a computational tool, based on recent ideas from…

Solving linear systems of equations is a fundamental problem with a wide variety of applications across many fields of science, and there is increasing effort to develop quantum linear solver algorithms. [Suba\c{s}i et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 David Jennings , Matteo Lostaglio , Sam Pallister , Andrew T Sornborger , Yiğit Subaşı

Linear regression is a basic and widely-used methodology in data analysis. It is known that some quantum algorithms efficiently perform least squares linear regression of an exponentially large data set. However, if we obtain values of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Kazuya Kaneko , Koichi Miyamoto , Naoyuki Takeda , Kazuyoshi Yoshino

This paper provides a theoretical and numerical comparison of classical first-order splitting methods for solving smooth convex optimization problems and cocoercive equations. From a theoretical point of view, we compare convergence rates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Luis Briceño-Arias , Nelly Pustelnik

A wide range of optimization problems arising in machine learning can be solved by gradient descent algorithms, and a central question in this area is how to efficiently compress a large-scale dataset so as to reduce the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiawei Huang , Ruomin Huang , Wenjie Liu , Nikolaos M. Freris , Hu Ding

This work studies a class of non-smooth decentralized multi-agent optimization problems where the agents aim at minimizing a sum of local strongly-convex smooth components plus a common non-smooth term. We propose a general primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Ernest K. Ryu , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Given a linear system of equations $A\boldsymbol{x}=\boldsymbol{b}$, quantum linear system solvers (QLSSs) approximately prepare a quantum state $|\boldsymbol{x}\rangle$ for which the amplitudes are proportional to the solution vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alexander M. Dalzell

Gradient descent methods have long been the de facto standard for training deep neural networks. Millions of training samples are fed into models with billions of parameters, which are slowly updated over hundreds of epochs. Recently, it's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tim Whitaker

Second-order optimizers hold intriguing potential for deep learning, but suffer from increased cost and sensitivity to the non-convexity of the loss surface as compared to gradient-based approaches. We introduce a coordinate descent method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ravi G. Patel , Nathaniel A. Trask , Mamikon A. Gulian , Eric C. Cyr

In recent years, variational quantum algorithms have garnered significant attention as a candidate approach for near-term quantum advantage using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. In this article we introduce kernel descent,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Lars Simon , Holger Eble , Manuel Radons

We address the problem of the best uniform approximation by linear combinations of a finite system of functions. If the system is Chebyshev and the problem is unconstrained, then the classical Remez algorithm provides a fast and precise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vladimir Yu. Protasov , Rinat Kamalov

Quantum computing enables the efficient resolution of complex problems, often outperforming classical methods across various applications. In 2009, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed an algorithm for solving linear systems of equations,…

In geometry processing, numerical optimization methods often involve solving sparse linear systems of equations. These linear systems have a structure that strongly resembles to adjacency graphs of the underlying mesh. We observe how…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Nicolas Ray , Sokolov Dmitry

We prove that stochastic gradient descent efficiently converges to the global optimizer of the maximum likelihood objective of an unknown linear time-invariant dynamical system from a sequence of noisy observations generated by the system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Moritz Hardt , Tengyu Ma , Benjamin Recht

Learning-based methods have gained attention as general-purpose solvers due to their ability to automatically learn problem-specific heuristics, reducing the need for manually crafted heuristics. However, these methods often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yuma Ichikawa , Yamato Arai

With rapid advancements in machine learning, first-order algorithms have emerged as the backbone of modern optimization techniques, owing to their computational efficiency and low memory requirements. Recently, the connection between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Jiaqi Leng , Bin Shi

We present a comprehensive computational study of a class of linear system solvers, called {\it Triangle Algorithm} (TA) and {\it Centering Triangle Algorithm} (CTA), developed by Kalantari \cite{kalantari23}. The algorithms compute an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Chun Lau , Bahman Kalantari

In this paper, online convex optimization is applied to the problem of controlling linear dynamical systems. An algorithm similar to online gradient descent, which can handle time-varying and unknown cost functions, is proposed. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Marko Nonhoff , Matthias A. Müller

We present a systematic pathway for solving differential equations within the quantum linear systems framework by combining block encoding with Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT). The approach is demonstrated on a complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Abhishek Setty