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Quantum neural networks (QNNs) provide expressive probabilistic models by leveraging quantum superposition and entanglement, yet their practical training remains challenging due to highly oscillatory loss landscapes and noise inherent to…

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We consider the problem of determining the weights of a quantum ensemble. That is to say, given a quantum system that is in a set of possible known states according to an unknown probability law, we give strategies to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 J. I. de Vicente , J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

Inverse problems aim to determine model parameters of a mathematical problem from given observational data. Neural networks can provide an efficient tool to solve these problems. In the context of Bayesian inverse problems, Uncertainty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Andrea Tonini , Tan Bui-Thanh , Francesco Regazzoni , Luca Dede' , Alfio Quarteroni

In his breakthrough paper, Raz showed that any parity learning algorithm requires either quadratic memory or an exponential number of samples [FOCS'16, JACM'19]. A line of work that followed extended this result to a large class of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xin Lyu , Avishay Tal , Hongxun Wu , Junzhao Yang

Quantum generalizations of the Fisher information are important in quantum information science, with applications in high energy and condensed matter physics and in quantum estimation theory, machine learning, and optimization. One can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Mark M. Wilde

Learning from quantum data presents new challenges to the paradigm of learning from data. This typically entails the use of quantum learning models to learn quantum processes that come with enough subtleties to modify the theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Yixian Qiu , Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

Machine learning is widely believed to be one of the most promising practical applications of quantum computing. Existing quantum machine learning schemes typically employ a quantum-classical hybrid approach that relies crucially on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Qi Ye , Shuangyue Geng , Zizhao Han , Weikang Li , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

We provide quantitative bounds measuring the $L^2$ difference in function space between the trajectory of a finite-width network trained on finitely many samples from the idealized kernel dynamics of infinite width and infinite data. An…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Benjamin Bowman , Guido Montufar

Tackling output sampling noise due to finite shots of quantum measurement is an unavoidable challenge when extracting information in machine learning with physical systems. A technique called Eigentask Learning was developed recently as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Fangjun Hu , Xun Gao

Learning unknown processes affecting a quantum system reveals underlying physical mechanisms and enables suppression, mitigation, and correction of unwanted effects. Describing a general quantum process requires an exponentially large…

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

In many quantum tasks, there is an unknown quantum object that one wishes to learn. An online strategy for this task involves adaptively refining a hypothesis to reproduce such an object or its measurement statistics. A common evaluation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Akshay Bansal , Ian George , Soumik Ghosh , Jamie Sikora , Alice Zheng

We provide high probability finite sample complexity guarantees for hidden non-parametric structure learning of tree-shaped graphical models, whose hidden and observable nodes are discrete random variables with either finite or countable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-01 Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Anand D. Sarwate

The Fisher information $F$ gives a limit to the ultimate precision achievable in a phase estimation protocol. It has been shown recently that the Fisher information for a linear two-mode interferometer cannot exceed the number of particles…

Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

It is well known that estimating the expectation of any given bounded random variable with values in $[-B, B]$ has a sample complexity of $\mathrm{O}(B^2/\epsilon^2)$ that is independent of the underlying probability measure. We show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yan Li

We investigate whether collider experiments can reach the quantum limit of precision, defined by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), using only classical observables such as particle momenta. As a case study, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Tengyu Ai , Qi Bi , Yuxin He , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang

We describe a general technique that yields the first {\em Statistical Query lower bounds} for a range of fundamental high-dimensional learning problems involving Gaussian distributions. Our main results are for the problems of (1) learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

Quantum computers hold unprecedented potentials for machine learning applications. Here, we prove that physical quantum circuits are PAC (probably approximately correct) learnable on a quantum computer via empirical risk minimization: to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Haoyuan Cai , Qi Ye , Dong-Ling Deng

The generalization error of a learning algorithm refers to the discrepancy between the loss of a learning algorithm on training data and that on unseen testing data. Various information-theoretic bounds on the generalization error have been…

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