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Classical global convergence results for first-order methods rely on uniform smoothness and the \L{}ojasiewicz inequality. Motivated by properties of objective functions that arise in machine learning, we propose a non-uniform refinement of…

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Gaussian processes are a powerful framework for quantifying uncertainty and for sequential decision-making but are limited by the requirement of solving linear systems. In general, this has a cubic cost in dataset size and is sensitive to…

We introduce a genetic algorithm that designs quantum optics experiments for engineering quantum states with specific properties. Our algorithm is powerful and flexible, and can easily be modified to find methods of engineering states for a…

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To accurately reproduce measurements from the real world, simulators need to have an adequate model of the physical system and require the parameters of the model be identified. We address the latter problem of estimating parameters through…

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In quantum mechanics, measuring the expectation value of a general observable has an inherent statistical uncertainty that is quantified by variance or mean squared error of measurement outcome. While the uncertainty can be reduced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Kaito Wada , Naoki Yamamoto , Nobuyuki Yoshioka

We explore the use of the Gauss-Newton method for optimization in shape learning, including implicit neural surfaces and geometry-informed neural networks. The method addresses key challenges in shape learning, such as the ill-conditioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 James King , Arturs Berzins , Siddhartha Mishra , Marius Zeinhofer

One of the most important parts of Artificial Neural Networks is minimizing the loss functions which tells us how good or bad our model is. To minimize these losses we need to tune the weights and biases. Also to calculate the minimum value…

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This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

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This paper proposes a novel parameter selection strategy for kernel-based gradient descent (KGD) algorithms, integrating bias-variance analysis with the splitting method. We introduce the concept of empirical effective dimension to quantify…

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The gradient-based optimization method for deep machine learning models suffers from gradient vanishing and exploding problems, particularly when the computational graph becomes deep. In this work, we propose the tangent-space gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zheng-zhi Sun , Shi-ju Ran , Gang Su

In this work, we provide a non-asymptotic convergence analysis of projected gradient descent for physics-informed neural networks for the Poisson equation. Under suitable assumptions, we show that the optimization error can be bounded by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Jonas Nießen , Johannes Müller

Gradient descent is a fundamental algorithm in both theory and practice for continuous optimization. Identifying its quantum counterpart would be appealing to both theoretical and practical quantum applications. A conventional approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Ethan Hickman , Joseph Li , Xiaodi Wu

Variational quantum-classical hybrid algorithms are seen as a promising strategy for solving practical problems on quantum computers in the near term. While this approach reduces the number of qubits and operations required from the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Ali Rad , Alireza Seif , Norbert M. Linke

Given a parameterized quantum circuit such that a certain setting of these real-valued parameters corresponds to Grover's celebrated search algorithm, can a variational algorithm recover these settings and hence learn Grover's algorithm? We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Mauro E. S. Morales , Timur Tlyachev , Jacob Biamonte

The data-aware method of distributions (DA-MD) is a low-dimension data assimilation procedure to forecast the behavior of dynamical systems described by differential equations. It combines sequential Bayesian update with the MD, such that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Francesca Boso , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Policy gradient methods are among the most effective methods in challenging reinforcement learning problems with large state and/or action spaces. However, little is known about even their most basic theoretical convergence properties,…

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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…

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This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

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Many near-term quantum computing algorithms are conceived as variational quantum algorithms, in which parameterized quantum circuits are optimized in a hybrid quantum-classical setup. Examples are variational quantum eigensolvers, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Thomas Hubregtsen , Frederik Wilde , Shozab Qasim , Jens Eisert

The optimization of physical parameters serves various purposes, such as system identification and efficiency in developing devices. Spin-torque oscillators have been applied to neuromorphic computing experimentally and theoretically, but…

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