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A general method for the study of the entanglement evolution of graph states under the action of Pauli was recently proposed in [Cavalcanti, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030502 (2009)]. This method is based on lower and upper bounds on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-30 L. Aolita , D. Cavalcanti , R. Chaves , C. Dhara , L. Davidovich , A. Acin

Near-term quantum devices with limited qubits motivate the study of space-bounded quantum computation in the data stream model. We show that Shannon entropy estimation exhibits an exponential separation between quantum and classical space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Weijun Feng , Yongzhen Xu , Lvzhou Li , Gongde Guo , Song Lin

We consider the problem of detecting a small subset of defective items from a large set via non-adaptive "random pooling" group tests. We consider both the case when the measurements are noiseless, and the case when the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Chun Lam Chan , Pak Hou Che , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama

This paper develops a gradient-based meta-learning framework for real-time control of waveguided pinching-antenna systems under user-location uncertainty and physical-layer security (PLS) constraints. A probabilistic system model is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Khalid T. Musri , Akram Y. Sarhan , Osamah A. Abdullah , Hayder Al-Hraishawi

We conclude a sequence of work by giving near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves on prior results that obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jelani Nelson , Krzysztof Onak

Adaptive measurements were recently shown to significantly improve the performance of quantum state tomography. Utilizing information about the system for the on-line choice of optimal measurements allows to reach the ultimate bounds of…

Entanglement distillation is a fundamental information processing task whose implementation is key to quantum communication and modular quantum computing. Noise experienced by such communication and computing platforms occurs not only in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Vikesh Siddhu , Dina Abdelhadi , Tomas Jochym-O'Connor , John Smolin

The classic problems of testing uniformity of and learning a discrete distribution, given access to independent samples from it, are examined under general $\ell_p$ metrics. The intuitions and results often contrast with the classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Bo Waggoner

Consider a regression problem where the learner is given a large collection of $d$-dimensional data points, but can only query a small subset of the real-valued labels. How many queries are needed to obtain a $1+\epsilon$ relative error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xue Chen , Michał Dereziński

The maximal amount of information which is reliably transmitted over two uses of general Pauli channels with memory is proven to be achieved by maximally entangled states beyond some memory threshold. In particular, this proves a conjecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 D. Daems

In the first part of this thesis, we discuss the algebraic approach to classical and quantum physics and develop information theoretic concepts within this setup. In the second part, we discuss the uncertainty principle in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 Mario Berta

This paper first focuses on deriving an alternative approach for proving an extremal entropy inequality (EEI), originally presented in [11]. The proposed approach does not rely on the channel enhancement technique, and has the advantage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Sangwoo Park , Erchin Serpedin , Khalid Qaraqe

The task of finding a correctable encoding that protects against some physical quantum process is in general hard. Two main obstacles are that an exponential number of experiments are needed to gain complete information about the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-23 Marcus Silva , Easwar Magesan , David W. Kribs , Joseph Emerson

We present a method to detect lower bounds to the classical capacity of quantum communication channels by means of few local measurements (i.e. without complete process tomography), reconstruction of sets of conditional probabilities, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

We prove that the classical capacity of an arbitrary quantum channel assisted by a free classical feedback channel is bounded from above by the maximum average output entropy of the quantum channel. As a consequence of this bound, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Dawei Ding , Yihui Quek , Peter W. Shor , Mark M. Wilde

The efficiency of parameter estimation of quantum channels is studied in this paper. We introduce the concept of programmable parameters to the theory of estimation. It is found that programmable parameters obey the standard quantum limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Zhengfeng Ji , Guoming Wang , Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

Simulating noiseless quantum dynamics classically faces a fundamental dilemma: tensor-network methods become inefficient as entanglement saturates, while Pauli-truncation approaches typically rely on noise or randomness. To close the gap,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Jue Xu , Chu Zhao , Xiangran Zhang , Shuchen Zhu , Qi Zhao

Adaptive bandwidth selection is a fundamental challenge in nonparametric regression. This paper introduces a new bandwidth selection procedure inspired by the optimality criteria for $\ell_0$-penalized regression. Although similar in spirit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-21 Sabyasachi Chatterjee , Subhajit Goswami , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

Channel simulation is an alternative to quantization and entropy coding for performing lossy source coding. Recently, channel simulation has gained significant traction in both the machine learning and information theory communities, as it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gergely Flamich , Sharang M. Sriramu , Aaron B. Wagner

Shannon Entropy is the preeminent tool for measuring the level of uncertainty (and conversely, information content) in a random variable. In the field of communications, entropy can be used to express the information content of given…

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