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Achieving a provable exponential quantum speedup for an important machine learning task has been a central research goal since the seminal HHL quantum algorithm for solving linear systems and the subsequent quantum recommender systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen

Quantum theory is consistent with a computational model permitting black-box operations to be applied in an indefinite causal order, going beyond the standard circuit model of computation. The quantum switch -- the simplest such example --…

Quantum advantage is well-established in centralized computing, where quantum algorithms can solve certain problems exponentially faster than classical ones. In the distributed setting, significant progress has been made in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Francesco d'Amore

The exotic nature of quantum mechanics makes machine learning (ML) be different in the quantum realm compared to classical applications. ML can be used for knowledge discovery using information continuously extracted from a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Yongcheng Ding , Xi Chen , Rafael Magdalena-Benedicto , José D. Martín-Guerrero

The power of quantum computers is still somewhat speculative. While they are certainly faster than classical ones at some tasks, the class of problems they can efficiently solve has not been mapped definitively onto known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 N. H. Nguyen , E. C. Behrman , M. A. Moustafa , J. E. Steck

The Shannon entropy is a widely used summary statistic, for example, network traffic measurement, anomaly detection, neural computations, spike trains, etc. This study focuses on estimating Shannon entropy of data streams. It is known that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Ping Li

We discuss the simulation of a complex dynamical system, the so-called quantum sawtooth map model, on a quantum computer. We show that a quantum computer can be used to efficiently extract relevant physical information for this model. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Simone Montangero

Quantum metrology shows that by exploiting nonclassical resources it is possible to overcome the fundamental limit of precision found for classical parameter-estimation protocols. The scaling of the quantum Fisher information -- which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Louis Garbe , Obinna Abah , Simone Felicetti , Ricardo Puebla

A longstanding goal in quantum information science is to demonstrate quantum computations that cannot be feasibly reproduced on a classical computer. Such demonstrations mark major milestones: they showcase fine control over quantum systems…

Energy consumption in solving computational problems has been gaining growing attention as one of the key performance measures for computers. Quantum computation is known to offer advantages over classical computation in terms of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Florian Meier , Hayata Yamasaki

The Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem has been a milestone in quantum information theory. It states that asymptotically reliable simulation of a quantum channel, assisted by unlimited shared entanglement, requires a rate of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Ke Li , Yongsheng Yao

Covert and secret quantum key distribution aims at generating information-theoretically secret bits between distant legitimate parties in a manner that remains provably undetectable by an adversary. We propose a framework in which to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch

Quantum computers may achieve speedups over their classical counterparts for solving linear algebra problems. However, in some cases -- such as for low-rank matrices -- dequantized algorithms demonstrate that there cannot be an exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao

Quantitative information flow analyses (QIF) are a class of techniques for measuring the amount of confidential information leaked by a program to its public outputs. Shannon entropy is an important method to quantify the amount of leakage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yong Lai , Haolong Tong , Zhenghang Xu , Minghao Yin

Online algorithm is a well-known computational model. We introduce quantum online algorithms and investigate them with respect to a competitive ratio in two points of view: space complexity and advice complexity. We start with exploring a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Kamil Khadiev , Aliya Khadieva , Ilnaz Mannapov

Quantum random sampling is the leading proposal for demonstrating a computational advantage of quantum computers over classical computers. Recently, first large-scale implementations of quantum random sampling have arguably surpassed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Dominik Hangleiter , Jens Eisert

Stochastic simulation has been widely used to analyze the performance of complex stochastic systems and facilitate decision making in those systems. Stochastic simulation is driven by the input model, which is a collection of probability…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-02-14 Tianyi Liu , Enlu Zhou

We devise a classical algorithm which efficiently computes the quantum expectation values arising in a class of continuous variable quantum circuits wherein the final quantum observable | after the Heisenberg evolution associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Agung Budiyono , Hermawan K. Dipojono

In quantum Shannon theory, various kinds of quantum entropies are used to characterize the capacities of noisy physical systems. Among them, min-entropy and its smooth version attract wide interest especially in the field of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Rong Wang , H. F. Chau

Algorithmic entropy and Shannon entropy are two conceptually different information measures, as the former is based on size of programs and the later in probability distributions. However, it is known that, for any recursive probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Andreia Teixeira , Andre Souto , Armando Matos , Luis Antunes