Pseudo-dimension of quantum circuits

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.

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