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When subjected to automated decision-making, decision subjects may strategically modify their observable features in ways they believe will maximize their chances of receiving a favorable decision. In many practical situations, the…

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Using a new Bayesian method for solving inverse quantum problems, potentials of quantum systems are reconstructed from coordinate measurements in non-stationary states. The approach is based on two basic inputs: 1. a likelihood model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Lemm

In this paper, we discuss the quantum data processing inequality and its refinements that are physically meaningful in the context of approximate recoverability. An important conjecture regarding this due to Seshadreesan et. al. in J. Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Saptak Bhattacharya

In quantum error correction, the Petz map serves as a perfect recovery map when the Knill-Laflamme conditions are satisfied. Notably, while perfect recovery is generally infeasible for most quantum channels of finite dimension, the Petz map…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Bikun Li , Zhaoyou Wang , Guo Zheng , Yat Wong , Liang Jiang

The richness of quantum theory's reversible dynamics is one of its unique operational characteristics, with recent results suggesting deep links between the theory's reversible dynamics, its local state space and the degree of non-locality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sabri W. Al-Safi , Jonathan Richens

The quantum relative entropy between two states satisfies a monotonicity property meaning that applying the same quantum channel to both states can never increase their relative entropy. It is known that this inequality is only tight when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 David Sutter , Marco Tomamichel , Aram W. Harrow

We describe an optimized, self-correcting procedure for the Bayesian inference of pure quantum states. By analyzing the history of measurement outcomes at each step, the procedure returns the most likely pure state, as well as the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

We develop the resource theory of private randomness extraction in the distributed and device-dependent scenario. We begin by introducing the notion of independent random bits, which are bipartite states containing ideal private randomness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Dong Yang , Karol Horodecki , Andreas Winter

Reconstruction of a high-dimensional network may benefit substantially from the inclusion of prior knowledge on the network topology. In the case of gene interaction networks such knowledge may come for instance from pathway repositories…

Phase retrieval problem has been studied in various applications. It is an inverse problem without the standard uniqueness guarantee. To make complete theoretical analyses and devise efficient algorithms to recover the signal is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Ziyang Yuan , Hongxia Wang

The image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as the quantum state reconstruction. The efficient method based on maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed to acquire information from registered intensity measurements…

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Two kinds of maps that describe evolution of states of a subsystem coming from dynamics described by a unitary operator for a larger system, maps defined for fixed mean values and maps defined for fixed correlations, are found to be quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-08 Thomas F. Jordan

The exploration of complex physical or technological processes usually requires exploiting available information from different sources: (i) physical laws often represented as a family of parameter dependent partial differential equations…

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Online learning via Bayes' theorem allows new data to be continuously integrated into an agent's current beliefs. However, a naive application of Bayesian methods in non stationary environments leads to slow adaptation and results in state…

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Predictions for measurement outcomes in physical theories are usually computed by combining two distinct notions: a state, describing the physical system, and an observable, describing the measurement which is performed. In quantum theory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Markus P. Mueller , Cozmin Ududec

We introduce the notion of time reversal in open quantum systems as represented by linear quantum operations, and a related generalization of classical entropy production in the environment. This functional is the ratio of the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Erik Aurell , Jakub Zakrzewski , Karol Życzkowski

A popular perspective in Reinforcement learning (RL) casts the problem as probabilistic inference on a graphical model of the Markov decision process (MDP). The core object of study is the probability of each state-action pair being visited…

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A nonparametric Bayesian approach is developed to determine quantum potentials from empirical data for quantum systems at finite temperature. The approach combines the likelihood model of quantum mechanics with a priori information over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Lemm , J. Uhlig , A. Weiguny

Inverse reinforcement learning is the problem of inferring a reward function from an optimal policy or demonstrations by an expert. In this work, it is assumed that the reward is expressed as a reward machine whose transitions depend on…

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A recovery map effectively cancels the action of a quantum operation to a partial or full extent. We study the Petz recovery map in the case where the quantum channel and input states are fermionic and Gaussian. Gaussian states are…

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