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We present a classical algorithm based on Pauli propagation for estimating expectation values of arbitrary observables on random unstructured quantum circuits across all circuit architectures and depths, including those with all-to-all…

The search for new, application-specific quantum computers designed to outperform any classical computer is driven by the ending of Moore's law and the quantum advantages potentially obtainable. Photonic networks are promising examples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 B. Opanchuk , L. Rosales-Zárate , M. D. Reid , P. D. Drummond

In this article we introduce an algorithm for mitigating the adverse effects of noise on gradient descent in variational quantum algorithms. This is accomplished by computing a {\emph{regularized}} local classical approximation to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Lars Simon , Holger Eble , Hagen-Henrik Kowalski , Manuel Radons

As quantum devices continue to grow in size but remain affected by noise, it is crucial to determine when and how they can outperform classical computers on practical tasks. A central piece in this effort is to develop the most efficient…

The $k$-means++ algorithm by Arthur and Vassilvitskii [SODA 2007] is a classical and time-tested algorithm for the $k$-means problem. While being very practical, the algorithm also has good theoretical guarantees: its solution is $O(\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Christoph Grunau , Ahmet Alper Özüdoğru , Václav Rozhoň

The rapid advancement of quantum computing has led to an extensive demand for effective techniques to extract classical information from quantum systems, particularly in fields like quantum machine learning and quantum chemistry. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Yifei Chen , Zhan Yu , Chenghong Zhu , Xin Wang

Quantum computers promise to dramatically outperform their classical counterparts. However, the non-classical resources enabling such computational advantages are challenging to pinpoint, as it is not a single resource but the subtle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Ulysse Chabaud , Mattia Walschaers

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a promising candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage and can be applied to solving graph-related problems. In this work, we propose Markov chain Monte Carlo-based algorithms to sample from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Yexin Zhang , Shuo Zhou , Xinzhao Wang , Ziruo Wang , Ziyi Yang , Rui Yang , Yecheng Xue , Tongyang Li

We consider continuous-time sparse stochastic processes from which we have only a finite number of noisy/noiseless samples. Our goal is to estimate the noiseless samples (denoising) and the signal in-between (interpolation problem). By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Arash Amini , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Emrah Bostan , Michael Unser

We develop a stochastic approximation version of the classical Kaczmarz algorithm that is incremental in nature and takes as input noisy real time data. Our analysis shows that with probability one it mimics the behavior of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Gugan Thoppe , Vivek S. Borkar , D. Manjunath

We prove that a classical computer can efficiently sample from the photon-number probability distribution of a Gaussian state prepared by using an optical circuit that is shallow and local. Our work generalizes previous known results for…

Cross entropy (XE) measure is a widely used benchmarking to demonstrate quantum computational advantage from sampling problems, such as random circuit sampling using superconducting qubits and boson sampling (BS). We present a heuristic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Bill Fefferman

Simulating sample correlation matrices is important in many areas of statistics. Approaches such as generating Gaussian data and finding their sample correlation matrix or generating random uniform $[-1,1]$ deviates as pairwise correlations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-09 Johanna Hardin , Stephan Ramon Garcia , David Golan

Gaussian building blocks are essential for photonic quantum information processing, and universality can be practically achieved by equipping Gaussian circuits with adaptive measurement and feedforward. The number of adaptive steps then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim

Randomised measurements can efficiently characterise many-body quantum states by learning the expectation values of observables with low Pauli weights. In this paper, we generalise the theoretical tools of classical shadow tomography to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Gregory A. L. White , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg , Charles D. Hill , Kavan Modi

BosonSampling is the leading candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage in photonic systems. While we have recently seen many impressive experimental demonstrations, there is still a formidable distance between the…

Boson sampling is considered as a strong candidate to demonstrate the quantum computational supremacy over classical computers. However, previous proof-of-principle experiments suffered from small photon number and low sampling rates owing…

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS), which can be realized with a photonic quantum computing model, perform some special kind of sampling tasks. In [4], we introduced algorithms that use GBS samples to approximate Gaussian expectation problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen , Shan Shan

Universal quantum computers promise a dramatic speed-up over classical computers but a full-size realization remains challenging. However, intermediate quantum computational models have been proposed that are not universal, but can solve…

In this article, based on some simple and reasonable assumptions, we derive a Gaussian noise model for quantum amplitude estimation. We provide results from quantum amplitude estimation run on various IBM superconducting quantum computers…

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