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The main reason for query model's prominence in complexity theory and quantum computing is the presence of concrete lower bounding techniques: polynomial and adversary method. There have been considerable efforts to give lower bounds using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Rajat Mittal , Sanjay S Nair , Sunayana Patro

We obtain a query lower bound for quantum algorithms solving the phase estimation problem. Our analysis generalizes existing lower bound approaches to the case where the oracle Q is given by controlled powers Q^p of Q, as it is for example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arvid J. Bessen

This paper studies quantum supervised learning for classical inference from quantum states. In this model, a learner has access to a set of labeled quantum samples as the training set. The objective is to find a quantum measurement that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Mohsen Heidari , Wojciech Szpankowski

We study the problems of quantum tomography and shadow tomography using measurements performed on individual, identical copies of an unknown $d$-dimensional state. We first revisit a known lower bound due to Haah et al. (2017) on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Angus Lowe , Ashwin Nayak

There has been a surge of progress in recent years in developing algorithms for testing and learning quantum states that achieve optimal copy complexity. Unfortunately, they require the use of entangled measurements across many copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Sebastien Bubeck , Sitan Chen , Jerry Li

One of the most important quantum algorithms ever discovered is Grover's algorithm for searching an unordered set. We give a new lower bound in the query model which proves that Grover's algorithm is exactly optimal. Similar to existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Catalin Dohotaru , Peter Hoyer

We systematically investigate quantum algorithms and lower bounds for mean estimation given query access to non-identically distributed samples. On the one hand, we give quantum mean estimators with quadratic quantum speed-up given samples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Jiachen Hu , Tongyang Li , Xinzhao Wang , Yecheng Xue , Chenyi Zhang , Han Zhong

We describe a method to upper bound the quantum query complexity of Boolean formula evaluation problems, using fundamental theorems about the general adversary bound. This nonconstructive method can give an upper bound on query complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 Shelby Kimmel

Local Search problem, which finds a local minimum of a black-box function on a given graph, is of both practical and theoretical importance to combinatorial optimization, complexity theory and many other areas in theoretical computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengyu Zhang

We revisit the so-called compressed oracle technique, introduced by Zhandry for analyzing quantum algorithms in the quantum random oracle model (QROM). To start off with, we offer a concise exposition of the technique, which easily extends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Kai-Min Chung , Serge Fehr , Yu-Hsuan Huang , Tai-Ning Liao

We propose upper and lower bounds on the maximum success probability for discriminating given quantum states. The proposed upper bound is obtained from a suboptimal solution to the dual problem of the corresponding optimal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-12 Kenji Nakahira , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda , Kentaro Kato

We study the sample complexity of differentially private optimization of quasi-concave functions. For a fixed input domain $\mathcal{X}$, Cohen et al. (STOC 2023) proved that any generic private optimizer for low sensitive quasi-concave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kobbi Nissim , Eliad Tsfadia , Chao Yan

Aaronson, Bouland, Fitzsimons and Lee introduced the complexity class PDQP (which was original labeled naCQP), an alteration of BQP enhanced with the ability to obtain non-collapsing measurements, samples of quantum states without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 David Miloschewsky , Supartha Podder

Finding the minimal relative entropy of two quantum states under semidefinite constraints is a pivotal problem located at the mathematical core of various applications in quantum information theory. An efficient method for providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

In this work, we study the phase estimation problem. We show an alternative, simpler and self-contained proof of query lower bounds. Technically, compared to the previous proofs [NW99, Bes05], our proof is considerably elementary.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-06 Yao-Ting Lin

We prove a query complexity lower bound for $\mathsf{QMA}$ protocols that solve approximate counting: estimating the size of a set given a membership oracle. This gives rise to an oracle $A$ such that $\mathsf{SBP}^A \not\subset…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-08 William Kretschmer

We investigate query-to-communication lifting theorems for models related to the quantum adversary bounds. Our results are as follows: 1. We show that the classical adversary bound lifts to a lower bound on randomized communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Anurag Anshu , Shalev Ben-David , Srijita Kundu

We present a new variant of the quantum adversary method. All adversary methods give lower bounds on the quantum query complexity of a function by bounding the change of a progress function caused by one query. All previous variants…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Spalek

We describe a general technique that yields the first {\em Statistical Query lower bounds} for a range of fundamental high-dimensional learning problems involving Gaussian distributions. Our main results are for the problems of (1) learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

We study unitary property testing, where a quantum algorithm is given query access to a black-box unitary and has to decide whether it satisfies some property. In addition to containing the standard quantum query complexity model (where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Adrian She , Henry Yuen