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Performance optimization of deep learning models is conducted either manually or through automatic architecture search, or a combination of both. On the other hand, their performance strongly depends on the target hardware and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Vahid Partovi Nia , Alireza Ghaffari , Mahdi Zolnouri , Yvon Savaria

We derive an efficiency bound for continuous quantum heat engines absorbing heat from squeezed thermal reservoirs. Our approach relies on a full-counting statistics description of nonequilibrium transport and it is not limited to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-05 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

With the advent of edge computing, data generated by end devices can be pre-processed before transmission, possibly saving transmission time and energy. On the other hand, data processing itself incurs latency and energy consumption,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Pietro Talli , Anup Mishra , Federico Chiariotti , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Andrea Zanella , Petar Popovski

Considering a general microscopic model for a quantum measuring apparatus comprising a quantum probe coupled to a thermal bath, we analyze the energetic resources necessary for the realization of a quantum measurement, which includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Camille L Latune , Cyril Elouard

This article presents recent progress in the theory of quantum measurement engines and discusses the implications of them for quantum interpretations and philosophical implications of the theory. Several new measurement engine designs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Andrew N. Jordan , Cyril Elouard , Alexia Auffèves

One of the principal objectives of quantum thermodynamics is to explore quantum effects and their potential beneficial role in thermodynamic tasks like work extraction or refrigeration. So far, even though several papers have already shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 C. L. Latune , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has created unprecedented demands for computational power, yet methods for evaluating the performance, efficiency, and environmental impact of deployed models remain fragmented. Current…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Hongyuan Liu , Xinyang Liu , Guosheng Hu

We analyze the efficiency of thermal engines (either quantum or classical) working with a single heat reservoir like atmosphere. The engine first gets an energy intake, which can be done in arbitrary non-equilibrium way e.g. combustion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Pankaj Mehta , Anatoli Polkovnikov

We describe algorithms, and experimental strategies, for the Pareto optimal control problem of simultaneously driving an arbitrary number of quantum observable expectation values to their respective extrema. Conventional quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raj Chakrabarti , Rebing Wu , Herschel Rabitz

How can we enable machines to make sense of the world, and become better at learning? To approach this goal, I believe viewing intelligence in terms of many integral aspects, and also a universal two-term tradeoff between task performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tailin Wu

Achieving the Carnot efficiency at finite power is a challenging problem in heat engines due to the trade-off relation between efficiency and power that holds for general heat engines. It is pointed out that the Carnot efficiency at finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-03 Kosuke Miura , Yuki Izumida , Koji Okuda

While quantum measurements have been shown to constitute a resource for operating quantum thermal machines, the nature of the energy exchanges involved in the interaction between system and measurement apparatus is still under debate. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Cyril Elouard , Sreenath K. Manikandan , Andrew N. Jordan , Geraldine Haack

The paper is focused on the tradeoff between performance and decoding complexity per iteration for LDPC codes in terms of their gap (in rate) to capacity. The study of this tradeoff is done via information-theoretic bounds which also enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

Quantum thermal machines make use of non-classical thermodynamic resources, one of which is interactions between elements of the quantum working medium. In this paper, we examine the performance of a quasi-static quantum Otto engine based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Venu Mehta , Ramandeep S. Johal

We study the transferring of useful energy (work) along a transmission line that allows for partial preservation of quantum coherence. As a figure of merit we adopt the maximum values that ergotropy, total ergotropy, and non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Salvatore Tirone , Raffaele Salvia , Vittorio Giovannetti

Isothermal information engines operate by extracting net work from a single heat bath through measurement and feedback control. In this work, we analyze a realistic active Szilard engine operating on a single active particle by means of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Luca Cocconi , Paolo Malgaretti , Holger Stark

In this article we use geometric optimal control to completely solve the problem of minimum-time transitions between thermal equilibrium and fixed average energy states of the quantum parametric oscillator, a system which has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Dionisis Stefanatos

We derive the amount of information retrieved by a quantum measurement in estimating an unknown maximally entangled state, along with the pertaining disturbance on the state itself. The optimal tradeoff between information and disturbance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano F. Sacchi

We study the optimal performance of a three-level quantum refrigerator using a trade-off objective function, $\Omega$ function, which represents a compromise between the energy benefits and the energy losses of a thermal device. First, we…

Heat engines extract work by running cyclically between two heat reservoirs. When the two reservoirs are thermal and at different temperatures, the maximum efficiency of the engine is given by the Carnot limit. Here we consider a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Johannes Roßnagel , Obinna Abah , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler , Kilian Singer , Eric Lutz