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Iterative refinement -- start with a random guess, then iteratively improve the guess -- is a useful paradigm for representation learning because it offers a way to break symmetries among equally plausible explanations for the data. This…

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Quantum computing is a hotspot technology for its potential to accelerate specific applications by exploiting quantum parallelism. However, current physical quantum computers are limited to a relatively small scale, simulators based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Jingcheng Shen , Linbo Long , Masao Okita , Fumihiko Ino

Classical machine learning has succeeded in the prediction of both classical and quantum phases of matter. Notably, kernel methods stand out for their ability to provide interpretable results, relating the learning process with the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Teresa Sancho-Lorente , Juan Román-Roche , David Zueco

Quantum computing exhibits the unique capability to natively and efficiently encode various natural phenomena, promising theoretical speedups of several orders of magnitude. However, not all computational tasks can be efficiently executed…

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We present a scalable, robust approach to creating quantum programs of arbitrary size and complexity. The approach is based on the true abstraction of the problem. The quantum program is expressed in terms of a high-level model together…

In this paper, we study quantitative properties of quantum programs. Properties of interest include (positive) almost-sure termination, expected runtime or expected cost, that is, for example, the expected number of applications of a given…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser , Romain Péchoux , Simon Perdrix

Quantum error correction (QEC) is an essential element of physical quantum information processing systems. Most QEC efforts focus on extending classical error correction schemes to the quantum regime. The input to a noisy system is embedded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew S. Fletcher , Peter W. Shor , Moe Z. Win

This dissertation introduces executable refinement types, which refine structural types by semi-decidable predicates, and establishes their metatheory and accompanying implementation techniques. These results are useful for undecidable type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Kenneth Knowles

Session types capture precise protocol structure in concurrent programming, but do not specify properties of the exchanged values beyond their basic type. Refinement types are a form of dependent types that can address this limitation,…

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Quantum tomography is an essential method of the photonic technology toolbox and is routinely used for evaluation of experimentally prepared states of light and characterization of devices transforming such states. The tomography procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Radim Hošák , Robert Stárek , Miroslav Ježek

A wide-spectrum language integrates specification constructs into a programming language in a manner that treats a specification command just like any other command. This paper investigates a semantic model for a wide-spectrum language that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Robert J. Colvin , Ian J. Hayes , Larissa A. Meinicke

In this paper we consider the problem of unambiguous discrimination between a set of linearly independent pure quantum states. We show that the design of the optimal measurement that minimizes the probability of an inconclusive result can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…

We describe an approach for compiling preferences into logic programs under the answer set semantics. An ordered logic program is an extended logic program in which rules are named by unique terms, and in which preferences among rules are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James P. Delgrande , Torsten Schaub , Hans Tompits

Program synthesis is the process of automatically translating a specification into computer code. Traditional synthesis settings require a formal, precise specification. Motivated by computer education applications where a student learns to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Evan Hernandez , Ara Vartanian , Xiaojin Zhu

A desired but challenging property of compiler verification is compositionality, in the sense that the compilation correctness of a program can be deduced incrementally from that of its substructures ranging from statements, functions, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhang Cheng , Jiyang Wu , Di Wang , Qinxiang Cao

Quantum algorithms can be analyzed in a query model to compute Boolean functions where input is given in a black box, but the aim is to compute function value for arbitrary input using as few queries as possible. In this paper we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-24 Alina Dubrovska Vasilieva , Taisia Mischenko-Slatenkova

Requirement engineering (RE) is the first and the most important step in software production and development. The RE is aimed to specify software requirements. One of the tasks in RE is the categorization of software requirements as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Fatemeh Khayashi , Behnaz Jamasb , Reza Akbari , Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki

Input binarization has shown to be an effective way for network acceleration. However, previous binarization scheme could be regarded as simple pixel-wise thresholding operations (i.e., order-one approximation) and suffers a big accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zefan Li , Bingbing Ni , Wenjun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Wen Gao

We introduce a numerical framework to verify the finite step convergence of first-order methods for parametric convex quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mathematical optimization problem where we maximize a…

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