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We investigate distributed online convex optimization with compressed communication, where $n$ learners connected by a network collaboratively minimize a sequence of global loss functions using only local information and compressed data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sifan Yang , Wenhao Yang , Wei Jiang , Lijun Zhang

We prove that several known upper bounds on the classical capacity of thermal and additive noise bosonic channels are actually strong converse rates. Our results strengthen the interpretation of these upper bounds, in the sense that we now…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bhaskar Roy Bardhan , Mark M. Wilde

We study the running time, in terms of first order oracle queries, of differentially private empirical/population risk minimization of Lipschitz convex losses. We first consider the setting where the loss is non-smooth and the optimizer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Michael Menart , Aleksandar Nikolov

We consider the following communication task in the multi-party setting, which involves a joint random variable $XYZMN$ with the property that $M$ is independent of $YZN$ conditioned on $X$ and $N$ is independent of $XZM$ conditioned on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Anurag Anshu , Penghui Yao

In a recent work (Ghazi et al., SODA 2016), the authors with Komargodski and Kothari initiated the study of communication with contextual uncertainty, a setup aiming to understand how efficient communication is possible when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Badih Ghazi , Madhu Sudan

This paper presents two unconventional links between quantum and classical physics. The first link appears in the study of quantum cryptography. In the presence of a spy, the quantum correlations shared by Alice and Bob are imperfect. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valerio Scarani

With the recent development of quantum information theory, some attempts exist to construct information theory beyond quantum theory. Here we consider hypothesis testing relative entropy and one-shot classical capacity, that is, the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Shintaro Minagawa , Hayato Arai

The classical limit of quantum mechanics is discussed for closed quantum systems in terms of observational aspects. Initially, the failure of the limit h->0 is explicitly demonstrated in a model of two quantum mechanically interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 R. M. Angelo

We characterize the communication complexity of the following distributed estimation problem. Alice and Bob observe infinitely many iid copies of $\rho$-correlated unit-variance (Gaussian or $\pm1$ binary) random variables, with unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Uri Hadar , Jingbo Liu , Yury Polyanskiy , Ofer Shayevitz

We present a new example of a partial boolean function whose one-way quantum communication complexity is exponentially lower than its one-way classical communication complexity. The problem is a natural generalisation of the previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Ashley Montanaro

We study the problem of simulating protocols in a quantum communication setting over noisy channels. This problem falls at the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum communication complexity, and it will be of importance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gilles Brassard , Ashwin Nayak , Alain Tapp , Dave Touchette , Falk Unger

Classical communication plays a crucial role to distinguish locally a class of quantum states. Despite considerable advances, we have very little knowledge about the number of measurement and communication rounds needed to implement a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Atanu Bhunia , Indranil Biswas , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Debasis Sarkar

We consider the problem of implementing two-party interactive quantum communication over noisy channels, a necessary endeavor if we wish to fully reap quantum advantages for communication. For an arbitrary protocol with $n$ messages,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Debbie Leung , Ashwin Nayak , Ala Shayeghi , Dave Touchette , Penghui Yao , Nengkun Yu

We describe a general quantum receiver protocol that maps laser-light-modulated classical communications signals into quantum processors for decoding with quantum logic. The quantum logic enables joint quantum measurements over a codeword…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Kelly Werker Smith , Don Boroson , Saikat Guha , Johannes Borregaard

A user, Alice, wants to get server Bob to implement a quantum computation for her. However, she wants to leave him blind to what she's doing. What are the minimal communication resources Alice must use in order to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Ethan Davies , Alastair Kay

Recent work has extended Bell's theorem by quantifying the amount of communication required to simulate entangled quantum systems with classical information. The general scenario is that a bipartite measurement is given from a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Serge Massar , Dave Bacon , Nicolas Cerf , Richard Cleve

Quantum entanglement distillation protocols are LOCC protocols between Alice and Bob that convert imperfect EPR pairs, or, in general, partially entangled bipartite states into perfect or near-perfect EPR pairs. The classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Ke Yang

This work addresses two problems in the context of two-party communication complexity of functions. First, it concludes the line of research, which can be viewed as demonstrating qualitative advantage of quantum communication in the three…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Dmytro Gavinsky

We study an extension of the standard two-party communication model in which Alice and Bob hold probability distributions $p$ and $q$ over domains $X$ and $Y$, respectively. Their goal is to estimate \[ \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p,\, y \sim…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Parikshit Gopalan , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra , Mihir Singhal , Avi Wigderson

Classical shadows constitute a protocol to estimate the expectation values of a collection of M observables acting on O(1) qubits of an unknown n-qubit state with a number of measurements that is independent of n and that grows only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Giacomo De Palma , Tristan Klein , Davide Pastorello