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Real-world large-scale datasets are both noisily labeled and class-imbalanced. The issues seriously hurt the generalization of trained models. It is hence significant to address the simultaneous incorrect labeling and class-imbalance, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manyi Zhang , Xuyang Zhao , Jun Yao , Chun Yuan , Weiran Huang

We propose QPALM, a nonconvex quadratic programming (QP) solver based on the proximal augmented Lagrangian method. This method solves a sequence of inner subproblems which can be enforced to be strongly convex and which therefore admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Ben Hermans , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos

In the scaling development of quantum computers, the calibration process emerges as a critical challenge. Existing calibration methods, utilizing the same pulse waveform for two-qubit gates across the device, overlook hardware differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Yuchen Zhu , Jinglei Cheng , Boxi Li , Yidong Zhou , Yufei Ding , Zhiding Liang

Redundant calibration is a technique in radio astronomy that allows calibration of radio arrays whose antennas lie on a lattice by exploiting the fact that redundant baselines should see the same sky signal. Because the number of measured…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Prakruth Adari , Anže Slosar

We report on a broader evaluation of statistical bootstrap resampling methods as a tool for pixel-level calibration and imaging fidelity assessment in radio interferometry. Pixel-level imaging fidelity assessment is a challenging problem,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Athol Kemball , Adam Martinsek , Modhurita Mitra , Hsin-Fang Chiang

Integer factorization remains a significant challenge for classical computers and is fundamental to the security of RSA encryption. Adiabatic quantum algorithms present a promising solution, yet their practical implementation is limited by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Tianlai Yang , Mo Xiong , Ming Xue , Xinwei Li , Jinbin Li

With the increase in multimedia content, the type of distortions associated with multimedia is also increasing. This problem of image quality assessment is expanded well in the PIPAL dataset, which is still an open problem to solve for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Abhisek Keshari , Komal , Sadbhawna , Badri Subudhi

In the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the laser subsystems exhibit frequency fluctuations that introduce significant levels of noise into the measurements, surpassing the gravitational wave signal by several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-15 Philipp Euringer , Niklas Houba , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Oliver Mandel , Francis Soualle , Walter Fichter

Quantum computers, currently in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, have started to provide scientists with a novel tool to explore quantum physics and chemistry. While several electronic systems have been extensively studied,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Yi-Ting Lee , Vijaya Begum-Hudde , Barbara A. Jones , André Schleife

Calibration is an important step towards building reliable IoT systems. For example, accurate sensor reading requires ADC calibration, and power monitoring chips must be calibrated before being used for measuring the energy consumption of…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Chia-Chi Li , Behnam Dezfouli

In this paper, we aim to design robust estimation techniques based on the compound-Gaussian (CG) process and adapted for calibration of radio interferometers. The motivation beyond this is due to the presence of outliers leading to an…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-31 Virginie Ollier , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , André Ferrari , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

In this paper, we present QPack, a universal benchmark for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers based on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms (QAOA). Unlike other evaluation metrics in the field, this benchmark evaluates…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Koen Mesman , Zaid Al-Ars , Matthias Möller

We present a new calibration scheme based on a non-linear version of Kalman filter that aims at estimating the physical terms appearing in the Radio Interferometry Measurement Equation (RIME). We enrich the filter's structure with a tunable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Cyril Tasse

Bayesian inference is a widely used technique for real-time characterization of quantum systems. It excels in experimental characterization in the low data regime, and when the measurements have degrees of freedom. A decisive factor for its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Alexandra Ramôa , Raffaele Santagati , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum volume (QV) has become the de-facto standard benchmark to quantify the capability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. While QV values are often reported by NISQ providers for their systems, we perform our own series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Elijah Pelofske , Andreas Bärtschi , Stephan Eidenbenz

Fidelity estimation is a critical yet resource-intensive step in testing quantum programs on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, where the required number of measurements is difficult to predefine due to hardware noise, device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Tingting Li , Ziming Zhao , Jianwei Yin

In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm for the quantum amplitude estimation task which works in noisy intermediate-scale quantum(NISQ) devices. The quantum amplitude estimation is an important problem which has various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Kouhei Nakaji

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers significant potential for complex tasks like genome sequence classification, but quantum noise on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices poses practical challenges. This study systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Navneet Singh , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Radio interferometers observe the Fourier space of the sky, at locations determined by the array geometry. Before a real space image is constructed by a Fourier transform, the data is weighted to improve the quality of reconstruction. Two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sarod Yatawatta

Quantum computers promise to enhance machine learning for practical applications. Quantum machine learning for real-world data has to handle extensive amounts of high-dimensional data. However, conventional methods for measuring quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Tobias Haug , Chris N. Self , M. S. Kim