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The tensor network algorithm, a family of prevalent numerical methods for quantum many-body problems, aptly captures the entanglement properties intrinsic to quantum systems, enabling precise representation of quantum states. However, its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-26 He-Yu Lin , Yibin Guo , Rong-Qiang He , Z. Y. Xie , Zhong-Yi Lu

The tensor network, as a facterization of tensors, aims at performing the operations that are common for normal tensors, such as addition, contraction and stacking. However, due to its non-unique network structure, only the tensor network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Tianning Zhang , Tianqi Chen , Erping Li , Bo Yang , L. K. Ang

We propose an approach to study the ground state of quantum many-body systems in which Tensor Network States (TNS), specifically Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), and Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) are combined. PEPS, by design,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-29 Mingpu Qin

Parallel tensor network contraction algorithms have emerged as the pivotal benchmarks for assessing the classical limits of computation, exemplified by Google's demonstration of quantum supremacy through random circuit sampling. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jin Lee , Sofia Gonzalez-Garcia , Zheng Zhang , Haewon Jeong

We provide a graphical treatment of SAT and #SAT on equal footing. Instances of #SAT can be represented as tensor networks in a standard way. These tensor networks are interpreted by diagrams of the ZH-calculus: a system to reason about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Niel de Beaudrap , Aleks Kissinger , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis

The computational cost of counting the number of solutions satisfying a Boolean formula, which is a problem instance of #SAT, has proven subtle to quantify. Even when finding individual satisfying solutions is computationally easy (e.g.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-19 Jacob D. Biamonte , Jason Morton , Jacob W. Turner

Tensor PCA is a stylized statistical inference problem introduced by Montanari and Richard to study the computational difficulty of estimating an unknown parameter from higher-order moment tensors. Unlike its matrix counterpart, Tensor PCA…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Rishabh Dudeja , Daniel Hsu

Tensor network methods are a conceptually elegant framework for encoding complicated datasets, where high-order tensors are approximated as networks of low-order tensors. In practice, however, the numeric implementation of tensor network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Glen Evenbly

Neural networks excel across a wide range of tasks, yet remain black boxes. In particular, how their internal representations are shaped by the complexity of the input data and the problems they solve remains obscure. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Robert Jankowski , Filippo Radicchi , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá , Santo Fortunato

Tensor regression networks achieve high compression rate of neural networks while having slight impact on performances. They do so by imposing low tensor rank structure on the weight matrices of fully connected layers. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Xingwei Cao , Guillaume Rabusseau

Tensor networks are powerful factorization techniques which reduce resource requirements for numerically simulating principal quantum many-body systems and algorithms. The computational complexity of a tensor network simulation depends on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Eugene F. Dumitrescu , Allison L. Fisher , Timothy D. Goodrich , Travis S. Humble , Blair D. Sullivan , Andrew L. Wright

Randomness is an intrinsic feature of quantum theory. The outcome of any quantum measurement will be random, sampled from a probability distribution that is defined by the measured quantum state. The task of sampling from a prescribed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Dominik Hangleiter

The evaluation of partition functions is a central problem in statistical physics. For lattice systems and other discrete models the partition function may be expressed as the contraction of a tensor network. Unfortunately computing such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Adam S. Jermyn

We study the optimal order (or sequence) of contracting a tensor network with a minimal computational cost. We conclude 2 different versions of this optimal sequence: that minimize the operation number (OMS) and that minimize the time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jianyu Xu , Hanwen Zhang , Ling Liang , Lei Deng , Yuan Xie , Guoqi Li

When studying interacting systems, computing their statistical properties is a fundamental problem in various fields such as physics, applied mathematics, and machine learning. However, this task can be quite challenging due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Yijia Wang , Yuwen Ebony Zhang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

One of the key problems in tensor network based quantum circuit simulation is the construction of a contraction tree which minimizes the cost of the simulation, where the cost can be expressed in the number of operations as a proxy for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Cameron Ibrahim , Danylo Lykov , Zichang He , Yuri Alexeev , Ilya Safro

We introduce a method for extracting meaningful entanglement measures of tensor network states in general dimensions. Current methods require the explicit reconstruction of the density matrix, which is highly demanding, or the contraction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-28 Noa Feldman , Augustine Kshetrimayum , Jens Eisert , Moshe Goldstein

Tensor networks are a compressed format for multi-dimensional data. One-dimensional tensor networks -- often referred to as tensor trains (TT) or matrix product states (MPS) -- are increasingly being used as a numerical ansatz for continuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Joseph Tindall , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Ryan Levy

The rapid growth of entanglement under unitary time evolution is the primary bottleneck for modern tensor-network techniques--such as Matrix Product States (MPS)--when computing time-dependent expectation values. This {entanglement barrier}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Stefano Carignano , Guglielmo Lami , Jacopo De Nardis , Luca Tagliacozzo

Tensor networks represent the state-of-the-art in computational methods across many disciplines, including the classical simulation of quantum many-body systems and quantum circuits. Several applications of current interest give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Johnnie Gray , Stefanos Kourtis