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Accurate simulations of molecules require high-level electronic-structure theory in combination with rigorous methods for approximating the quantum dynamics. Machine-learning approaches can significantly reduce the computational expense of…

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We study near optimal error correction codes for real-time communication. In our setup the encoder must operate on an incoming source stream in a sequential manner, and the decoder must reconstruct each source packet within a fixed playback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

We introduce a new computational model for data streams: asymptotically exact streaming algorithms. These algorithms have an approximation ratio that tends to one as the length of the stream goes to infinity while the memory used by the…

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Many state-of-the-art algorithms for solving hard combinatorial problems in artificial intelligence (AI) include elements of stochasticity that lead to high variations in runtime, even for a fixed problem instance. Knowledge about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Katharina Eggensperger , Marius Lindauer , Frank Hutter

A long series of recent results and breakthroughs have led to faster and better distributed approximation algorithms for single source shortest paths (SSSP) and related problems in the CONGEST model. The runtime of all these algorithms,…

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We study the amount of randomness needed for an input process to approximate a given output distribution of a channel in the $E_{\gamma}$ distance. A general one-shot achievability bound for the precision of such an approximation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Jingbo Liu , Paul Cuff , Sergio Verdú

For reliable transmission across a noisy communication channel, classical results from information theory show that it is asymptotically optimal to separate out the source and channel coding processes. However, this decomposition can fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Kristy Choi , Kedar Tatwawadi , Aditya Grover , Tsachy Weissman , Stefano Ermon

We present a quantum circuit that implements the random dilation superchannel, transforming parallel queries of an unknown quantum channel into the same number of parallel queries of a randomly chosen dilation isometry of the input channel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Satoshi Yoshida , Ryotaro Niwa , Takeru Utsumi , Ryuji Takagi , Mio Murao

A common requirement of quantum simulations and algorithms is the preparation of complex states through sequences of 2-qubit gates. For a generic quantum state, the number of gates grows exponentially with the number of qubits, becoming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Matan Ben Dov , David Shnaiderov , Adi Makmal , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

Coded source compression, also known as source compression with helpers, has been a major variant of distributed source compression, but has hitherto received little attention in the quantum regime. This work treats and solves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Shun Watanabe

We consider a molecular channel, in which messages are encoded to the frequency of objects in a pool, and whose output during reading time is a noisy version of the input frequencies, as obtained by sampling with replacement from the pool.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ran Tamir , Nir Weinberger

The efficient communication of noisy data has applications in several areas of machine learning, such as neural compression or differential privacy, and is also known as reverse channel coding or the channel simulation problem. Here we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Lucas Theis , Noureldin Yosri

We consider channel simulation protocols between two communicating parties, Alice and Bob. First, Alice receives a target distribution $Q$, unknown to Bob. Then, she employs a shared coding distribution $P$ to send the minimum amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Gergely Flamich , Lucas Theis

Finding efficient decoders for quantum error correcting codes adapted to realistic experimental noise in fault-tolerant devices represents a significant challenge. In this paper we introduce several decoding algorithms complemented by deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Christopher Chamberland , Pooya Ronagh

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) schemes are key exchange protocols based on the physical properties of quantum channels. They avoid the computational-hardness assumptions that underlie the security of classical key exchange.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Arpan Akash Ray , Boris Skoric

Approximate matrix multiplication with limited space has received ever-increasing attention due to the emergence of large-scale applications. Recently, based on a popular matrix sketching algorithm -- frequent directions, previous work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

This paper investigates achievable information rates and error exponents of mismatched decoding when the channel belongs to the class of channels that are close to the decoding metric in terms of relative entropy. For both discrete- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Priyanka Patel , Francesc Molina , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In this paper, a stochastic algorithm for the efficient simulation and optimal control of networked wave equations based on the random batch method is proposed and analyzed. The random approximation is constructed by dividing the time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Daniel Veldman , Yue Wang

Channel simulation involves generating a sample $Y$ from the conditional distribution $P_{Y|X}$, where $X$ is a remote realization sampled from $P_X$. This paper introduces a novel approach to approximate Gaussian channel simulation using…

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