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Noise in quantum information processing is often viewed as a disruptive and difficult-to-avoid feature, especially in near-term quantum technologies. However, noise has often played beneficial roles, from enhancing weak signals in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao , Nana Liu

Information-theoretic definitions for the noise associated with a quantum measurement and the corresponding disturbance to the state of the system have recently been introduced [F. Buscemi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 050401 (2014)]. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Alastair A. Abbott , Cyril Branciard

In this work, we introduce a novel framework which combines physics and machine learning methods to analyse acoustic signals. Three methods are developed for this task: a Bayesian inference approach for inferring the spectral acoustics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yongchao Huang , Yuhang He , Hong Ge

Noise is a part of data whether the data is from measurement, experiment or ... A few techniques are suggested for noise reduction to improve the data quality in recent years some of which are based on wavelet, orthogonalization and neural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Negin Bagherpour , Abbas Mohammadiyan

Stochasticity (or noise) at cellular and molecular levels has been observed extensively as a universal feature for living systems. However, how living systems deal with noise while performing desirable biological functions remains a major…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-22 Qing Nie , Lingxia Qiao , Yuchi Qiu , Lei Zhang , Wei Zhao

Amplitude amplification provides a quadratic speed-up for an array of quantum algorithms when run on a quantum machine perfectly isolated from its environment. However, the advantage is substantially diminished as the NISQ-era quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Debashis Ganguly , Wonsun Ahn

As our ability to sense increases, we are experiencing a transition from data-poor problems, in which the central issue is a lack of relevant data, to data-rich problems, in which the central issue is to identify a few relevant features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Robert E. Colgan , Jingkai Yan , Zsuzsa Márka , Imre Bartos , Szabolcs Márka , John N. Wright

The metrological ability of carefully designed probes can be spoilt by the presence of noisy processes occurring during their evolution. The noise is responsible for altering the evolution of the probes in such a way that bear little or no…

Wearable health devices are ushering in a new age of continuous and noninvasive remote monitoring. One application of this technology is in anxiety detection. Many advancements in anxiety detection have happened in controlled lab settings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Samuel Schapiro , Abdul Alkurdi , Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler

Research in unsupervised text generation has been gaining attention over the years. One recent approach is local search towards a heuristically defined objective, which specifies language fluency, semantic meanings, and other task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Weikai Steven Lu

This paper proposes a method for estimating a surface that contains a given set of points from noisy measurements. More precisely, by assuming that the surface is described by the zero set of a function in the span of a given set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Omar M. Sleem , Sahand Kiani , Constantino M. Lagoa

This article aims to investigate the impact of noise on parameter fitting for an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, focusing on the effects of multiplicative and thermal noise on the accuracy of signal separation. To address these issues, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-11 Simon Carter , Lilianne Mujica-Parodi , Helmut H. Strey

Varied sensory systems use noise in order to enhance detection of weak signals. It has been conjectured in the literature that this effect, known as stochastic resonance, may take place in central cognitive processes such as the memory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Julien Mayor , Wulfram Gerstner

The goal of ordinal embedding is to represent items as points in a low-dimensional Euclidean space given a set of constraints in the form of distance comparisons like "item $i$ is closer to item $j$ than item $k$". Ordinal constraints like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson , Robert Nowak

Odor detection underpins food safety, environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and many more fields. The current artificial sensors developed for odor detection struggle with complex mixtures while non-invasive recordings lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Matin Hassanloo , Ali Zareh , Mehmet Kemal Özdemir

Predicting the relationship between a molecule's structure and its odor remains a difficult, decades-old task. This problem, termed quantitative structure-odor relationship (QSOR) modeling, is an important challenge in chemistry, impacting…

We investigate the impact of entropy change in deep learning systems by noise injection at different levels, including the embedding space and the image. The series of models that employ our methodology are collectively known as Noisy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaowei Yu , Zhe Huang , Minheng Chen , Lu Zhang , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu

In this paper, we consider the problem of sensor selection for parameter estimation with correlated measurement noise. We seek optimal sensor activations by formulating an optimization problem, in which the estimation error, given by the…

This work considers an estimation task in compressive sensing, where the goal is to estimate an unknown signal from compressive measurements that are corrupted by additive pre-measurement noise (interference, or clutter) as well as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-25 Swayambhoo Jain , Akshay Soni , Jarvis Haupt

Sparse sensor placement is a central challenge in the efficient characterization of complex systems when the cost of acquiring and processing data is high. Leading sparse sensing methods typically exploit either spatial or temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Thomas L. Mohren , Thomas L. Daniel , Steven L. Brunton , Bingni W. Brunton