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Gaussian process (GP) surrogates are the default tool for emulating expensive computer experiments, but cubic cost, stationarity assumptions, and Gaussian predictive distributions limit their reach. We propose Generative Bayesian…

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We present several refinements and extensions of the statistical quantum phase estimation (SQPE) framework to address some of its key practical limitations, improving its applicability to realistic cases. Recently, a family of statistical…

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We demonstrate the possibility of a genuine quantum advantage in the efficiency of quantum batteries by analyzing a model that enables a consistent comparison between quantum and classical regimes. Our system consists of $N$ harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 F. Cavaliere , D. Ferraro , M. Carrega , G. Benenti , M. Sassetti

Gaussian boson sampling is a promising model for demonstrating quantum computational supremacy, which eases the experimental challenge of the standard boson-sampling proposal. Here by analyzing the computational costs of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Bujiao Wu , Bin Cheng , Jialin Zhang , Man-Hong Yung , Xiaoming Sun

Boson-Sampling is a classically computationally hard problem that can - in principle - be efficiently solved with quantum linear optical networks. Very recently, a rush of experimental activity has ignited with the aim of developing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 C. Gogolin , M. Kliesch , L. Aolita , J. Eisert

Linear cross-entropy benchmarking (LXEB) with random quantum circuits is a standard method for evaluating quantum computers. However, LXEB requires classically simulating the ideal output distribution of a given quantum circuit with high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Takumi Kaneda , Keisuke Fujii , Hiroshi Ueda

Gaussian belief propagation (GBP) is a recursive computation method that is widely used in inference for computing marginal distributions efficiently. Depending on how the factorization of the underlying joint Gaussian distribution is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Jian Du , Shaodan Ma , Yik-Chung Wu , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

It is predicted that quantum computers will dramatically outperform their conventional counterparts. However, large-scale universal quantum computers are yet to be built. Boson sampling is a rudimentary quantum algorithm tailored to the…

Verification of a quantum advantage in the presence of noise is a key open problem in the study of near-term quantum devices. In this work, we show how to assess the quality of photonic interference in a linear optical quantum device (boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jelmer J. Renema , Hui Wang , Jian Qin , Xiang You , Chaoyang Lu , Jianwei Pan

Generalized linear models (GLM) are link function based statistical models. Many supervised learning algorithms are extensions of GLMs and have link functions built into the algorithm to model different outcome distributions. There are two…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-02 Colleen M. Farrelly , Srikanth Namuduri , Uchenna Chukwu

Gaussian belief propagation (BP) is a computationally efficient method to approximate the marginal distribution and has been widely used for inference with high dimensional data as well as distributed estimation in large-scale networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Jian Du , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Generative modeling using samples drawn from the probability distribution constitutes a powerful approach for unsupervised machine learning. Quantum mechanical systems can produce probability distributions that exhibit quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Xun Gao , Eric R. Anschuetz , Sheng-Tao Wang , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mikhail D. Lukin

Statistical model checking avoids the exponential growth of states associated with probabilistic model checking by estimating properties from multiple executions of a system and by giving results within confidence bounds. Rare properties…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-01-26 Cyrille Jégourel , Axel Legay , Sean Sedwards

Sampling experiments provide a viable route to show quantum advantages of quantum devices over classical computers in well-defined computational tasks. However, quantum devices such as boson samplers are susceptible to various errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Deepesh Singh , Ryan J. Marshman , Nathan Walk , Jens Eisert , Timothy C. Ralph , Austin P. Lund

We study the hardness of classically simulating Gaussian boson sampling at nonzero photon distinguishability. We find that similar to regular boson sampling, distinguishability causes exponential attenuation of the many-photon interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Jelmer J. Renema

Boson sampling is expected to be one of an important milestones that will demonstrate quantum supremacy. The present work establishes the benchmarking of Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) with threshold detection based on the Sunway TaihuLight…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yuxuan Li , Mingcheng Chen , Yaojian Chen , Haitian Lu , Lin Gan , Chaoyang Lu , Jianwei Pan , Haohuan Fu , Guangwen Yang

Quantum simulation is a promising way toward practical quantum advantage, but noise in current quantum hardware poses a significant obstacle. We prove that not only the physical error but also the algorithmic error in a single Trotter step…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Jue Xu , Chu Zhao , Junyu Fan , Qi Zhao

Simulating vibronic spectra is a central task in physical chemistry, offering insight into important properties of molecules. Recently, it has been experimentally demonstrated that photonic platforms based on Gaussian boson sampling (GBS)…

We consider the problem of diagnosing faults in a system represented by a Bayesian network, where diagnosis corresponds to recovering the most likely state of unobserved nodes given the outcomes of tests (observed nodes). Finding an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Alice X. Zheng , Irina Rish , Alina Beygelzimer

If classical algorithms have been successful in reproducing the estimation of expectation values of observables of some quantum circuits using off-the-shelf computing resources, matching the performance of the most advanced quantum devices…