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Pseudo-dimension of quantum circuits

Quantum Physics 2020-11-10 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

We characterize the expressive power of quantum circuits with the pseudo-dimension, a measure of complexity for probabilistic concept classes. We prove pseudo-dimension bounds on the output probability distributions of quantum circuits; the upper bounds are polynomial in circuit depth and number of gates. Using these bounds, we exhibit a class of circuit output states out of which at least one has exponential state complexity, and moreover demonstrate that quantum circuits of known polynomial size and depth are PAC-learnable.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01490,
  title  = {Pseudo-dimension of quantum circuits},
  author = {Matthias C. Caro and Ishaun Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01490},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

22 pages, 1 figure; corrected Lemma 3.8, this does not change our results

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