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Classification is at the core of data-driven prediction and decision-making, representing a fundamental task in supervised machine learning. Recently, several quantum machine learning algorithms that use quantum kernels as a measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

We consider a multi-process remote estimation system observing $K$ independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. In this system, a shared sensor samples the $K$ processes in such a way that the long-term average sum mean square error (MSE) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Karim Banawan , Ahmed Arafa , Karim G. Seddik

We study the practical performance of quantum-inspired algorithms for recommendation systems and linear systems of equations. These algorithms were shown to have an exponential asymptotic speedup compared to previously known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Alain Delgado , Bhaskar Roy Bardhan , Seth Lloyd

The method of stable random projections is a tool for efficiently computing the $l_\alpha$ distances using low memory, where $0<\alpha \leq 2$ is a tuning parameter. The method boils down to a statistical estimation task and various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Ping Li

We study the computational phase transition in a multi-frequency group synchronization problem, where pairwise relative measurements of group elements are observed across multiple frequency channels and corrupted by Gaussian noise. Using…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Zhangsong Li

In this paper, we propose two new algorithms for maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) of high dimensional sparse covariance matrices. Unlike most of the state of-the-art methods, which either use regularization techniques or penalize the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-12 Ghania Fatima , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Assisting end users to identify desired results from a large dataset is an important problem for multi-criteria decision making. To address this problem, top-k and skyline queries have been widely adopted, but they both have inherent…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jiping Zheng , Qi Dong , Xiaoyang Wang , Ying Zhang , Wei Ma , Yuan Ma

We study the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases as a discretised model for the imaging of a phase object. We identify quantum probe states that provide an enhancement compared to the best quantum scheme for the estimation of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Peter C. Humphreys , Marco Barbieri , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

In the fixed budget thresholding bandit problem, an algorithm sequentially allocates a budgeted number of samples to different distributions. It then predicts whether the mean of each distribution is larger or lower than a given threshold.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Reda Ouhamma , Rémy Degenne , Pierre Gaillard , Vianney Perchet

Compressed sensing aims to undersample certain high-dimensional signals, yet accurately reconstruct them by exploiting signal characteristics. Accurate reconstruction is possible when the object to be recovered is sufficiently sparse in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 David L. Donoho , Arian Maleki , Andrea Montanari

This paper addresses computational challenges in estimating Quantile Regression with Selection (QRS). The estimation of the parameters that model self-selection requires the estimation of the entire quantile process several times. Moreover,…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-02-27 Santiago Pereda-Fernández

Inferring evaluation scores based on human judgments is invaluable compared to using current evaluation metrics which are not suitable for real-time applications e.g. post-editing. However, these judgments are much more expensive to collect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Ibrahim Sabek , Noha A. Yousri , Nagwa Elmakky , Mona Habib

Learned index structures aim to accelerate queries by training machine learning models to approximate the rank function associated with a database attribute. While effective in practice, their theoretical limitations are not fully…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Roman Sokolovskii , Thomas Heinis

Classical estimation outputs a single point estimate of an unknown $d$-dimensional vector from an observation. In this paper, we study \emph{$k$-list estimation}, in which a single observation is used to produce a list of $k$ candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nikola Zlatanov , Amin Gohari , Farzad Shahrivari , Mikhail Rudakov

This paper is about variable selection, clustering and estimation in an unsupervised high-dimensional setting. Our approach is based on fitting constrained Gaussian mixture models, where we learn the number of clusters $K$ and the set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-03 Stephane Gaiffas , Bertrand Michel

A fundamental task in quantum information science is to measure nonlinear functionals of quantum states, such as $\mathrm{Tr}(\rho^k O)$. Intuitively, one expects that computing a $k$-th order quantity generally requires $O(k)$ copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan

Class ambiguity is typical in image classification problems with a large number of classes. When classes are difficult to discriminate, it makes sense to allow k guesses and evaluate classifiers based on the top-k error instead of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-23 Maksim Lapin , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Machine learning models are often evaluated using point estimates of performance metrics such as accuracy, F1 score, or mean squared error. Such summaries fail to capture the inherent variability induced by stochastic elements of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Christoph Lehmann , Yahor Paromau

We propose a supervised learning algorithm for machine learning applications. Contrary to the model developing in the classical methods, which treat training, validation, and test as separate steps, in the presented approach, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Soheil Mehrabkhani

Efficient benchmarking techniques aim to lower the computational cost of evaluating LLMs by predicting full benchmark scores using only a subset of a benchmark's questions. By reframing this problem as an instance of multiple regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Sam Bowyer , Acyr Locatelli , Kris Cao