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Without large quantum computers to empirically evaluate performance, theoretical frameworks such as the quantum statistical query (QSQ) are a primary tool to study quantum algorithms for learning classical functions and search for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Laura Lewis , Dar Gilboa , Jarrod R. McClean

Blumer et al. (1987, 1989) showed that any concept class that is learnable by Occam algorithms is PAC learnable. Board and Pitt (1990) showed a partial converse of this theorem: for concept classes that are closed under exception lists, any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zaman Keinath-Esmail

We initiate the study of computability requirements for adversarially robust learning. Adversarially robust PAC-type learnability is by now an established field of research. However, the effects of computability requirements in PAC-type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Pascale Gourdeau , Tosca Lechner , Ruth Urner

Quantum machine learning is often highlighted as one of the most promising practical applications for which quantum computers could provide a computational advantage. However, a major obstacle to the widespread use of quantum machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Sofiene Jerbi , Casper Gyurik , Simon C. Marshall , Riccardo Molteni , Vedran Dunjko

Quantum computers hold unprecedented potentials for machine learning applications. Here, we prove that physical quantum circuits are PAC (probably approximately correct) learnable on a quantum computer via empirical risk minimization: to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Haoyuan Cai , Qi Ye , Dong-Ling Deng

How quickly can a given class of concepts be learned from examples? It is common to measure the performance of a supervised machine learning algorithm by plotting its "learning curve", that is, the decay of the error rate as a function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Olivier Bousquet , Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran , Ramon van Handel , Amir Yehudayoff

Adversarially robust PAC learning has proved to be challenging, with the currently best known learners [Montasser et al., 2021a] relying on improper methods based on intricate compression schemes, resulting in sample complexity exponential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hassan Ashtiani , Vinayak Pathak , Ruth Urner

Recently, increased computational power and data availability, as well as algorithmic advances, have led machine learning techniques to impressive results in regression, classification, data-generation and reinforcement learning tasks.…

This note serves three purposes: (i) we provide a self-contained exposition of the fact that conjunctive queries are not efficiently learnable in the Probably-Approximately-Correct (PAC) model, paying clear attention to the complicating…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Balder ten Cate , Maurice Funk , Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz

The goal of a learning algorithm is to receive a training data set as input and provide a hypothesis that can generalize to all possible data points from a domain set. The hypothesis is chosen from hypothesis classes with potentially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-29 Soosan Beheshti , Mahdi Shamsi

Over the past few years several quantum machine learning algorithms were proposed that promise quantum speed-ups over their classical counterparts. Most of these learning algorithms either assume quantum access to data -- making it unclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Yunchao Liu , Srinivasan Arunachalam , Kristan Temme

We study the problem of multiclass PAC learning with bandit feedback in the realizable setting. In this framework, there is an unknown data distribution over an instance space $\mathcal{X}$ and a label space $\mathcal{Y}$, as in classical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Steve Hanneke , Qinglin Meng , Shay Moran , Amirreza Shaeiri

We define a new model of quantum learning that we call Predictive Quantum (PQ). This is a quantum analogue of PAC, where during the testing phase the student is only required to answer a polynomial number of testing queries. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Dmytro Gavinsky

Combinatorial optimization - a field of research addressing problems that feature strongly in a wealth of scientific and industrial contexts - has been identified as one of the core potential fields of applicability of quantum computers. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Niklas Pirnay , Vincent Ulitzsch , Frederik Wilde , Jens Eisert , Jean-Pierre Seifert

The apparent difficulty of efficient distribution-free PAC learning has led to a large body of work on distribution-specific learning. Distributional assumptions facilitate the design of efficient algorithms but also limit their reach and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Carmen Strassle , Li-Yang Tan

As learning solutions reach critical applications in social, industrial, and medical domains, the need to curtail their behavior has become paramount. There is now ample evidence that without explicit tailoring, learning can lead to biased,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

We study computable probably approximately correct (CPAC) learning, where learners are required to be computable functions. It had been previously observed that the Fundamental Theorem of Statistical Learning, which characterizes PAC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 David Kattermann , Lothar Sebastian Krapp

Despite significant effort, the quantum machine learning community has only demonstrated quantum learning advantages for artificial cryptography-inspired datasets when dealing with classical data. In this paper we address the challenge of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Casper Gyurik , Vedran Dunjko

We show that a separation between the class of all problems that can efficiently be solved on a quantum computer and those solvable using probabilistic classical algorithms in polynomial time implies the generalized contextuality of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Farid Shahandeh

Quantum computing promises the ability to compute properties of quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Quantum advantage is achieved when a practical problem is solved more efficiently on a quantum computer than on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 William A. Simon , Peter J. Love