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Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is an important component of molecular property prediction, particularly for drug discovery applications where model predictions direct experimental design and where unanticipated imprecision wastes valuable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Lior Hirschfeld , Kyle Swanson , Kevin Yang , Regina Barzilay , Connor W. Coley

Rate-Distortion Optimized Quantization (RDOQ) has played an important role in the coding performance of recent video compression standards such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9 and AV1. This scheme yields significant reductions in bit-rate at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Dana Kianfar , Auke Wiggers , Amir Said , Reza Pourreza , Taco Cohen

The vector quantization is a widely used method to map continuous representation to discrete space and has important application in tokenization for generative mode, bottlenecking information and many other tasks in machine learning. Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingyuan Yan , Jiawei Wu , Rushi Shah , Dianbo Liu

We propose and study a multi-scale approach to vector quantization. We develop an algorithm, dubbed reconstruction trees, inspired by decision trees. Here the objective is parsimonious reconstruction of unsupervised data, rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Enrico Cecini , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco

Recently, Information Retrieval community has witnessed fast-paced advances in Dense Retrieval (DR), which performs first-stage retrieval with embedding-based search. Despite the impressive ranking performance, previous studies usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingtao Zhan , Jiaxin Mao , Yiqun Liu , Jiafeng Guo , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

The development of quantum computers has been the stimulus that enables the realization of Quantum Machine Learning (QML), an area that integrates the calculational framework of quantum mechanics with the adaptive properties of classical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Bhavna Bose , Saurav Verma

Quantum computing is expected to provide exponential speedup in machine learning. However, optimizing the data loading process, commonly referred to as quantum data embedding, to maximize classification performance remains a critical…

Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sicheng Yang , Xing Hu , Qiang Wu , Dawei Yang

Network quantification (NQ) is the problem of estimating the proportions of nodes belonging to each class in subsets of unlabelled graph nodes. When prior probability shift is at play, this task cannot be effectively addressed by first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Alessio Micheli , Alejandro Moreo , Marco Podda , Fabrizio Sebastiani , William Simoni , Domenico Tortorella

Quantum data encoding (QDE) enables faster com-putations than classical algorithms through superposition and en-tanglement. Circuit cutting and knitting are effective techniques for ameliorating current noisy quantum processing unit (QPUs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ziqing Guo , Jan Balewski , Kewen Xiao , Ziwen Pan

Reservoir computing (RC) is an effective method for predicting chaotic systems by using a high-dimensional dynamic reservoir with fixed internal weights, while keeping the learning phase linear, which simplifies training and reduces…

The development of quantum computational techniques has advanced greatly in recent years, parallel to the advancements in techniques for deep reinforcement learning. This work explores the potential for quantum computing to facilitate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Owen Lockwood , Mei Si

This paper introduces a post-training quantization~(PTQ) method achieving highly efficient Convolutional Neural Network~ (CNN) quantization with high performance. Previous PTQ methods usually reduce compression error via performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chen Lin , Zheyang Li , Bo Peng , Haoji Hu , Wenming Tan , Ye Ren , Shiliang Pu

Vector Quantization (VQ) is a widely used technique in machine learning and data compression, valued for its simplicity and interpretability. Among hard VQ methods, $k$-medoids clustering and Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Thore Gerlach , Sascha Mücke , Christian Bauckhage

This work proposes QNet, a novel sequence encoder model that entirely inferences on the quantum computer using a minimum number of qubits. Let $n$ and $d$ represent the length of the sequence and the embedding size, respectively. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wei Day , Hao-Sheng Chen , Min-Te Sun

Quantized Indexing is a fast and space-efficient form of enumerative (combinatorial) coding, the strongest among asymptotically optimal universal entropy coding algorithms. The present advance in enumerative coding is similar to that made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ratko V. Tomic

Quantum Computing aims to streamline machine learning, making it more effective with fewer trainable parameters. This reduction of parameters can speed up the learning process and reduce the use of computational resources. However, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Michael Kölle , Timo Witter , Tobias Rohe , Gerhard Stenzel , Philipp Altmann , Thomas Gabor

Deep learning as a means to inferencing has proliferated thanks to its versatility and ability to approach or exceed human-level accuracy. These computational models have seemingly insatiable appetites for computational resources not only…

Vector quantile regression (VQR) is an optimal transport (OT)-based framework that extends linear quantile regression to vector-valued response variables and can be formulated as an OT problem with a mean-independence constraint. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Kengo Kato , Boyu Wang

Concatenating quantum error correction codes scales error correction capability by driving logical error rates down double-exponentially across levels. However, the noise structure shifts under concatenation, making it hard to choose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Nico Meyer , Christopher Mutschler , Dominik Seuß , Andreas Maier , Daniel D. Scherer