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The goal of quantum channel discrimination and estimation is to determine the identity of an unknown channel from a discrete or continuous set, respectively. The query complexity of these tasks is equal to the minimum number of times one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Zixin Huang , Johannes Jakob Meyer , Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

We study quantum channels that are close to another channel with weakly additive Holevo information and derive upper bounds on their classical capacity. Examples of channels with weakly additive Holevo information are entanglement-breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Felix Leditzky , Eneet Kaur , Nilanjana Datta , Mark M. Wilde

We resolve a 30-year-old open problem concerning the power of unlabeled data in online learning by tightly quantifying the gap between transductive and standard online learning. In the standard setting, the optimal mistake bound is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zachary Chase , Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran , Jonathan Shafer

Quantum channel discrimination has been studied from an information-theoretic perspective, wherein one is interested in the optimal decay rate of error probabilities as a function of the number of unknown channel accesses. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

We study the problem of efficiently learning an unknown $n$-qubit unitary channel in diamond distance given query access. We present a general framework showing that if Pauli operators remain low-complexity under conjugation by a unitary,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Sabee Grewal , Daniel Liang

We study the binomial channel and the structure of its capacity-achieving input and output distributions. It is known that the capacity-achieving input distribution is discrete and supported on finitely many points. The best previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mohammadamin Baniasadi , Luca Barletta , Alex Dytso

The classical randomization criterion is an important result of statistical decision theory. Recently, a quantum analogue has been proposed, giving equivalent conditions for two sets of quantum states, ensuring existence of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Anna Jencova

Checking whether two quantum circuits are approximately equivalent is a common task in quantum computing. We consider a closely related identity check problem: given a quantum circuit $U$, one has to estimate the diamond-norm distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Sergey Bravyi , Natalie Parham , Minh Tran

We introduce a new quantum R\'enyi divergence $D^{\#}_{\alpha}$ for $\alpha \in (1,\infty)$ defined in terms of a convex optimization program. This divergence has several desirable computational and operational properties such as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

Fault-tolerant quantum computation requires non-destructive quantum measurements with classical feed-forward. Many experimental groups are actively working towards implementing such capabilities and so they need to be accurately evaluated.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Darian McLaren , Matthew A. Graydon , Joel J. Wallman

Discriminating between noisy quantum processes is a central primitive for quantum communication, metrology, and computing. While discrimination limits for finite-dimensional channels are well understood, the continuous-variable setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Zixin Huang , Ludovico Lami , Vishal Singh , Mark M. Wilde

We prove that adaptive strategies offer no advantage over non-adaptive ones for learning and testing Pauli channels using entangled inputs. This key observation allows us to characterize the query complexity for several fundamental tasks by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Xuan Du Trinh , Nengkun Yu

We study the task of learning mixed unitary channels using Fisher information, under different quantum resource assumptions including ancilla and concatenation. Our result shows that the asymptotic sample complexity scales as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yue Tu , Liang Jiang

The characterization of errors in a quantum system is a fundamental step for two important goals. First, learning about specific sources of error is essential for optimizing experimental design and error correction methods. Second,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Hillary Dawkins , Joel Wallman , Joseph Emerson

Optimal rates for achieving an information processing task are often characterized in terms of regularized information measures. In many cases of quantum tasks, we do not know how to compute such quantities. Here, we exploit the symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Omar Fawzi , Ala Shayeghi , Hoang Ta

We improve the space bound for streaming approximation of Diameter but also of Farthest Neighbor queries, Minimum Enclosing Ball and its Coreset, in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. In particular, our deterministic streaming algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Nicolaos Matsakis , Pavel Veselý

Let $\mathscr{F}_{n,d}$ be the class of all functions $f:\{-1,1\}^n\to[-1,1]$ on the $n$-dimensional discrete hypercube of degree at most $d$. In the first part of this paper, we prove that any (deterministic or randomized) algorithm which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Alexandros Eskenazis , Paata Ivanisvili , Lauritz Streck

Open questions from Sarovar and Milburn (2006 J.Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 8487) are answered. Sarovar and Milburn derived a convenient upper bound for the Fisher information of a one-parameter quantum channel. They showed that for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Caleb J. O'Loan

We consider the problem of digitalizing Euclidean segments. Specifically, we look for a constructive method to connect any two points in $\mathbb{Z}^d$. The construction must be {\em consistent} (that is, satisfy the natural extension of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Man-Kwun Chiu , Matias Korman , Martin Suderland , Takeshi Tokuyama

This work is motivated by the problem of error correction in bit-shift channels with the so-called $ (d,k) $ input constraints (where successive $ 1 $'s are required to be separated by at least $ d $ and at most $ k $ zeros, $ 0 \leq d < k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević