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In this paper, we investigate the convergence speed of the Arimoto-Blahut algorithm. For many channel matrices the convergence is exponential, but for some channel matrices it is slower than exponential. By analyzing the Taylor expansion of…

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Recent generative and tool-using AI systems can surface a large volume of candidates at low marginal cost, yet only a small fraction can be checked carefully. This creates a decoder-side bottleneck: downstream decision-makers must form…

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An important step in building a quantum computer is calibrating experimentally implemented quantum gates to produce operations that are close to ideal unitaries. The calibration step involves estimating the systematic errors in gates and…

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Quantum hypothesis testing (QHT) concerns the statistical inference of unknown quantum states. In the general setting of composite hypotheses, the goal of QHT is to determine whether an unknown quantum state belongs to one or another of two…

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Direct collocation for Bolza optimal control yields discrete Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) points, while practical solvers expose only discrete quantities such as primal-dual iterates, reduced Hessians, and Jacobians. This creates a gap between…

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Quantum annealing (QA) is a method for solving combinatorial optimization problems. We can estimate the computational time for QA using the adiabatic condition. The adiabatic condition consists of two parts: an energy gap and a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Hiroshi Hayasaka , Takashi Imoto , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Shiro Kawabata

The convergence of the generalized alternating projection (GAP) algorithm is studied in this paper to solve the compressive sensing problem $\yv = \Amat \xv + \epsilonv$. By assuming that $\Amat\Amat\ts$ is invertible, we prove that GAP…

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The multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem is a classical problem that models sequential decision-making under uncertainty in reinforcement learning. In this study, we propose a new generalized upper confidence bound (UCB) algorithm (GWA-UCB1) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nobuhito Manome , Shuji Shinohara , Ung-il Chung

Quantum measurements with feed-forward are crucial components of fault-tolerant quantum computers. We show how the error rate of such a measurement can be directly estimated by fitting the probability that successive randomly compiled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Darian McLaren , Matthew A. Graydon , Ali Assem Mahmoud , Joel J. Wallman

Amortized Bayesian Inference (ABI) enables efficient posterior estimation using generative neural networks trained on simulated data, but often suffers from performance degradation under model misspecification. While self-consistency (SC)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-27 Aayush Mishra , Šimon Kucharský , Paul-Christian Bürkner

Quantum metric learning enhances machine learning by mapping classical data to a quantum Hilbert space with maximal separation between classes. However, on current NISQ hardware, this mapping process itself is prone to errors and could be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ahmed Shokry , Movahhed Sadeghi , Mahmut Kandemir

In order to exploit quantum advantages, quantum algorithms are indispensable for operating machine learning with quantum computers. We here propose an intriguing hybrid approach of quantum information processing for quantum linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Dan-Bo Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

Randomized benchmarking (RB) refers to a collection of protocols that in the past decade have become central methods for characterizing quantum gates. These protocols aim at efficiently estimating the quality of a set of quantum gates in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Jonas Helsen , Ingo Roth , Emilio Onorati , Albert H. Werner , Jens Eisert

After decades of research in approximate query processing (AQP), its adoption in the industry remains limited. Existing methods struggle to simultaneously provide user-specified error guarantees, eliminate maintenance overheads, and avoid…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuxuan Zhu , Tengjun Jin , Stefanos Baziotis , Chengsong Zhang , Charith Mendis , Daniel Kang

Properly designed control has been shown to be particularly advantageous for improving AQC accuracy and time complexity scaling. Here, an \emph{in situ} quantum control optimization protocol is developed to indirectly optimize state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gregory Quiroz

Certifying the IID generalisation ability of deep networks is the first of many requirements for trusting AI in high-stakes applications from medicine to security. However, when instantiating generalisation bounds for deep networks it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Taehoon Kim , Henry Gouk , Minyoung Kim , Timothy Hospedales

Quantum computers are becoming increasingly accessible, and may soon outperform classical computers for useful tasks. However, qubit readout errors remain a significant hurdle to running quantum algorithms on current devices. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Alistair W. R. Smith , Kiran E. Khosla , Chris N. Self , M. S. Kim

Generalized measurements, also called positive operator-valued measures (POVMs), can offer advantages over projective measurements in various quantum information tasks. Here, we realize a generalized measurement of one and two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Petr Ivashkov , Gideon Uchehara , Liang Jiang , Derek S. Wang , Alireza Seif

We give a careful proof that a parallelized version of adiabatic quantum computation can efficiently simulate universal gate model quantum computation. The proof specifies an explicit parameter-dependent Hamiltonian $H({\lambda})$ that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ari Mizel

The QRAT (quantified resolution asymmetric tautology) proof system simulates virtually all inference rules applied in state of the art quantified Boolean formula (QBF) reasoning tools. It consists of rules to rewrite a QBF by adding and…

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