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Data augmentation is one of the most widely used techniques to improve generalization in modern machine learning, often justified by its ability to promote invariance to label-irrelevant transformations. However, its theoretical role…

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We derive upper bounds on the generalization error of a learning algorithm in terms of the mutual information between its input and output. The bounds provide an information-theoretic understanding of generalization in learning problems,…

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Learning from quantum data presents new challenges to the paradigm of learning from data. This typically entails the use of quantum learning models to learn quantum processes that come with enough subtleties to modify the theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Yixian Qiu , Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

Recent advancements in quantum computing have positioned it as a prospective solution for tackling intricate computational challenges, with supervised learning emerging as a promising domain for its application. Despite this potential, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Antonio Macaluso

The subject of quantum computing brings together ideas from classical information theory, computer science, and quantum physics. This review aims to summarise not just quantum computing, but the whole subject of quantum information theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Andrew Steane

We present a general approach to deriving bounds on the generalization error of randomized learning algorithms. Our approach can be used to obtain bounds on the average generalization error as well as bounds on its tail probabilities, both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Fredrik Hellström , Giuseppe Durisi

This paper presents a general methodology for deriving information-theoretic generalization bounds for learning algorithms. The main technical tool is a probabilistic decorrelation lemma based on a change of measure and a relaxation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yifeng Chu , Maxim Raginsky

Generalization in deep learning has been the topic of much recent theoretical and empirical research. Here we introduce desiderata for techniques that predict generalization errors for deep learning models in supervised learning. Such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-10 Guillermo Valle-Pérez , Ard A. Louis

Classical learning of the expectation values of observables for quantum states is a natural variant of learning quantum states or channels. While learning-theoretic frameworks establish the sample complexity and the number of measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Beng Yee Gan , Po-Wei Huang , Elies Gil-Fuster , Patrick Rebentrost

In this paper, we address the problem how to represent a classical data distribution in a quantum system. The proposed method is to learn quantum Hamiltonian that is such that its ground state approximates the given classical distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Hilbert J Kappen

Quantum learning paradigms address the question of how best to harness conceptual elements of quantum mechanics and information processing to improve operability and functionality of a computing system for specific tasks through experience.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar

This work advances the theoretical understanding of quantum learning by establishing a new family of upper bounds on the expected generalization error of quantum learning algorithms, leveraging the framework introduced by Caro et al. (2024)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi , Ayanava Dasgupta , Masahito Hayashi

In this work, we present a variety of novel information-theoretic generalization bounds for learning algorithms, from the supersample setting of Steinke & Zakynthinou (2020)-the setting of the "conditional mutual information" framework. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-16 Ziqiao Wang , Yongyi Mao

Quantum information theory is built upon the realisation that quantum resources like coherence and entanglement can be exploited for novel or enhanced ways of transmitting and manipulating information, such as quantum cryptography,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Gerardo Adesso , Thomas R. Bromley , Marco Cianciaruso

We review some of our recent results (with collaborators) on information processing in an ordered linear spaces framework for probabilistic theories. These include demonstrations that many "inherently quantum" phenomena are in reality quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 Howard Barnum , Alexander Wilce

We derive a tight generalization bound for quantum machine learning that is applicable to a wide range of supervised tasks, data, and models. Our bound is both efficiently computable and free of big-O notation. Furthermore, we point out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xin Wang , Rebing Wu

Quantum machine learning is an emergent field that continues to draw significant interest for its potential to offer improvements over classical algorithms in certain areas. However, training quantum models remains a challenging task,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Erik Recio-Armengol , Franz J. Schreiber , Jens Eisert , Carlos Bravo-Prieto

Learning from quantum data using classical machine learning models has emerged as a promising paradigm toward realizing quantum advantages. Despite extensive analyses on their performance, clean and fully labeled quantum data from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Kosuke Ito , Akira Tanji , Hiroshi Yano , Yudai Suzuki , Naoki Yamamoto

Data-driven algorithms can adapt their internal structure or parameters to inputs from unknown application-specific distributions, by learning from a training sample of inputs. Several recent works have applied this approach to problems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Peter Bartlett , Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

Some of the tightest information-theoretic generalization bounds depend on the average information between the learned hypothesis and a single training example. However, these sample-wise bounds were derived only for expected generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan