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A new algorithm for estimating the fraction of numbers that is present in a superpositional state which satisfies a given condition,is introduced.This algorithm is conceptually simple and does not require quantum Fourier transform.Also the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P John

Several Artificial Intelligence schemes for reasoning under uncertainty explore either explicitly or implicitly asymmetries among probabilities of various states of their uncertain domain models. Even though the correct working of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Marek J. Druzdzel

We show that human consciousness can be modeled as a classical (not quantum) probabilistic computer. A quantum computer representation does not appear to be indicated because no known feature of consciousness depends on Planck's constant h,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Blaha

We present an approach for systematically anticipating the actions and policies employed by \emph{oblivious} environments in concurrent stochastic games, while maximizing a reward function. Our main contribution lies in the synthesis of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Shadi Tasdighi Kalat , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Ashutosh Trivedi

The quantum computer is supposed to process information by applying unitary transformations to the complex amplitudes defining the state of N qubits. A useful machine needing N=1000 or more, the number of continuous parameters describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 M. I. Dyakonov

A stochastic process's statistical complexity stands out as a fundamental property: the minimum information required to synchronize one process generator to another. How much information is required, though, when synchronizing over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 J. R. Mahoney , C. Aghamohammadi , J. P. Crutchfield

The empirical rule that systems of identical particles always obey either Bose or Fermi statistics is customarily imposed on the theory by adding it to the axioms of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, with the result that other statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 J. C. Garrison

We introduce a novel framework for incorporating human expertise into algorithmic predictions. Our approach leverages human judgment to distinguish inputs which are algorithmically indistinguishable, or "look the same" to predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Rohan Alur , Manish Raghavan , Devavrat Shah

The outcome of all time series cannot be forecast, e.g. the flipping of a fair coin. Others, like the repeated {01} sequence {010101...} can be forecast exactly. Algorithmic information theory can provide a measure of forecastability that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Glauco Amigo , Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón , Robert J. Marks , Charles Baylis

In terms of the concepts of state and state transition, a new heuristic random search algorithm named state transition algorithm is proposed. For continuous function optimization problems, four special transformation operators called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Xiaojun Zhou , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

We study the informational underpinnings of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, using an abstract framework, general probabilistic theories, capable of describing arbitrary physical theories. This allows one to abstract the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 Carlo Maria Scandolo

We present a quantum algorithm to estimate parameters at the quantum metrology limit using deterministic quantum computation with one bit. When the interactions occurring in a quantum system are described by a Hamiltonian $H= \theta H_0$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Rolando D. Somma , Sergio Boixo

We propose a test based on the theory of algorithmic complexity and an experimental evaluation of Levin's universal distribution to identify evidence in support of or in contravention of the claim that the world is algorithmic in nature. To…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Hector Zenil , Jean-Paul Delahaye

Stochastic optimization of the Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve (AUPRC) is a crucial problem for machine learning. Although various algorithms have been extensively studied for AUPRC optimization, the generalization is only guaranteed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Qingming Huang

Previous work has shown that perturbation analysis in software space can produce candidate computable generative models and uncover possible causal properties from the finite description of an object or system quantifying the algorithmic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Felipe S. Abrahão , Hector Zenil

We study the problem of PAC learning $\gamma$-margin halfspaces with Random Classification Noise. We establish an information-computation tradeoff suggesting an inherent gap between the sample complexity of the problem and the sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

This paper presents a new method for conditional probability density simulation. The method is design to work with unstructured data set when data are not characterized by the same covariates yet share common information. Specific examples…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Esteban G. Tabak , Giulio Trigila , Wenjun Zhao

This work introduces Algorithmic Idealism a framework that reinterprets quantum mechanics as a computational process governed by algorithmic probability informational simplicity and utility optimization Reality is modeled as an…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Krzysztof Sienicki

We introduce the coordination principle, which states that perfect coordination, in the form of agreement on a uniformly random output, among N parties is possible only if they share a common cause. This principle is purely causal and can…

We provide an efficient method for computing the maximum likelihood mixed quantum state (with density matrix $\rho$) given a set of measurement outcome in a complete orthonormal operator basis subject to Gaussian noise. Our method works by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 John A. Smolin , Jay M. Gambetta , Graeme Smith