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In this paper, we propose a novel architecture and a self-supervised policy gradient algorithm, which employs unsupervised auxiliary tasks to enable a mobile robot to learn how to navigate to a given goal. The dependency on the global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Arbaaz Khan , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

Quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising utilization of near-term quantum computation devices. However, algorithmic classes such as variational quantum algorithms have been shown to suffer from barren plateaus due to vanishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

Motivated by estimation of quantum noise models, we study the problem of learning a Pauli channel, or more generally the Pauli error rates of an arbitrary channel. By employing a novel reduction to the "Population Recovery" problem, we give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Steven T. Flammia , Ryan O'Donnell

We study unlabeled multi-robot motion planning for unit-disk robots in a polygonal environment. Although the problem is hard in general, polynomial-time solutions exist under appropriate separation assumptions on start and target positions.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tsuri Farhana , Omrit Filtser , Shalev Goldshtein

Estimating extensive combinations of local parameters in distributed quantum systems is a central problem in quantum sensing, with applications ranging from magnetometry to timekeeping. While optimal strategies are known for sensing…

Discrepancy theory provides powerful tools for producing higher-quality objects which "beat the union bound" in fundamental settings throughout combinatorics and computer science. However, this quality has often come at the price of more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Arun Jambulapati , Victor Reis , Kevin Tian

Projective measurements of a single two-level quantum mechanical system (a qubit) evolving under a time-independent Hamiltonian produce a probability distribution that is periodic in the evolution time. The period of this distribution is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Christopher Ferrie , Christopher E. Granade , D. G. Cory

Sparse signal representations based on linear combinations of learned atoms have been used to obtain state-of-the-art results in several practical signal processing applications. Approximation methods are needed to process high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Fredrik Sandin , Sergio Martin-del-Campo

Analog quantum simulations---simulations of one Hamiltonian by another---is one of the major goals in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum computation (NISQ) era, and has many applications in quantum complexity. We initiate the rigorous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Dorit Aharonov , Leo Zhou

An approximate sparse recovery system in ell_1 norm formally consists of parameters N, k, epsilon an m-by-N measurement matrix, Phi, and a decoding algorithm, D. Given a vector, x, where x_k denotes the optimal k-term approximation to x,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-15 Ely Porat , Martin J. Strauss

We study the fundamental problem of high-dimensional mean estimation in a robust model where a constant fraction of the samples are adversarially corrupted. Recent work gave the first polynomial time algorithms for this problem with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rong Ge

Discrete and continuous variables oftentimes require different treatments in many learning tasks. Identifying the Hamiltonian governing the evolution of a quantum system is a fundamental task in quantum learning theory. While previous works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Tim Möbus , Andreas Bluhm , Tuvia Gefen , Yu Tong , Albert H. Werner , Cambyse Rouzé

We propose a quantum algorithm to obtain the lowest eigenstate of any Hamiltonian simulated by a quantum computer. The proposed algorithm begins with an arbitrary initial state of the simulated system. A finite series of transforms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jeongho Bang , Seung-Woo Lee , Chang-Woo Lee , Hyunseok Jeong

The efficient simulation of quantum dynamics and ground states is a central challenge in physics and a key frontier for quantum advantage. While short-time evolution in one-dimensional systems can often be simulated classically, extending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Yusen Wu , Yukun Zhang , Chuan Wang , Xiao Yuan

Proximal distance algorithms combine the classical penalty method of constrained minimization with distance majorization. If $f(\boldsymbol{x})$ is the loss function, and $C$ is the constraint set in a constrained minimization problem, then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Kevin L. Keys , Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

Commuting Hamiltonians lie at the boundary between classical constraint satisfaction and quantum many-body physics, exhibiting rich quantum structure while remaining more tractable than general noncommuting models. In contrast, physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Islam Faisal , Anand Natarajan , Alexander Poremba

For many machine learning algorithms such as $k$-Nearest Neighbor ($k$-NN) classifiers and $ k $-means clustering, often their success heavily depends on the metric used to calculate distances between different data points. An effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-03 Chunhua Shen , Junae Kim , Lei Wang

Modern statistical learning algorithms are capable of amazing flexibility, but struggle with interpretability. One possible solution is sparsity: making inference such that many of the parameters are estimated as being identically 0, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-15 Nathan Wycoff , Ali Arab , Katharine M. Donato , Lisa O. Singh

We give an algorithm for properly learning Poisson binomial distributions. A Poisson binomial distribution (PBD) of order $n$ is the discrete probability distribution of the sum of $n$ mutually independent Bernoulli random variables. Given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

This paper proposes an adaptive hyper-reduction method to reduce the computational cost associated with the simulation of parametric particle-based kinetic plasma models, specifically focusing on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. Conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara