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quant-ph2026

Learning SYK Hamiltonians

Anurag Anshu, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Sitan Chen +1

We study the problem of learning the dense Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) Hamiltonian from copies of its Gibbs state. Existing algorithms for Hamiltonian learning typically rely on geom…

quant-ph2026

Optimal Quantum-Classical Separations for Exact Learning

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Amin Shiraz Gilani, Nikhil S. Mande

We study exact learning with membership queries for concept classes , focusing on the relationships among their deterministic, randomized, and quantum…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Query Complexity Beyond the Worst Case

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Yanlin Chen, Amin Shiraz Gilani

Smoothed analysis is a central framework in classical algorithms for explaining the performance of algorithms beyond the worst case, often explaining why algorithms perform well in…

quant-ph2023★ 211 cited

Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics: State of the Art and Challenges. Summary of the QC4HEP Working Group

Alberto Di Meglio, Karl Jansen, Ivano Tavernelli +43

Quantum computers offer an intriguing path for a paradigmatic change of computing in the natural sciences and beyond, with the potential for achieving a so-called quantum advantage…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

On the Role of Entanglement and Statistics in Learning

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Vojtech Havlicek, Louis Schatzki

In this work we make progress in understanding the relationship between learning models with access to entangled, separable and statistical measurements in the quantum statistical…

quant-ph2023

Trade-offs between Entanglement and Communication

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Uma Girish

We study the advantages of quantum communication models over classical communication models that are equipped with a limited number of qubits of entanglement. In this direction, we…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

A survey on the complexity of learning quantum states

Anurag Anshu, Srinivasan Arunachalam

We survey various recent results that rigorously study the complexity of learning quantum states. These include progress on quantum tomography, learning physical quantum states, al…

quant-ph2022

Optimal algorithms for learning quantum phase states

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Sergey Bravyi, Arkopal Dutt +1

We analyze the complexity of learning -qubit quantum phase states. A degree- phase state is defined as a superposition of all basis vectors with amplitudes proporti…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

The Parameterized Complexity of Quantum Verification

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Sergey Bravyi, Chinmay Nirkhe +1

We initiate the study of parameterized complexity of problems in terms of the number of non-Clifford gates in the problem description. We show that for the problem o…

quant-ph2021★ 7 cited

Private learning implies quantum stability

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Yihui Quek, John Smolin

Learning an unknown -qubit quantum state is a fundamental challenge in quantum computing. Information-theoretically, it is known that tomography requires exponential in …

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Quantum learning algorithms imply circuit lower bounds

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Alex B. Grilo, Tom Gur +2

We establish the first general connection between the design of quantum algorithms and circuit lower bounds. Specifically, let be a class of polynomial-size concepts…

quant-ph2020★ 544 cited

A rigorous and robust quantum speed-up in supervised machine learning

Yunchao Liu, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Kristan Temme

Over the past few years several quantum machine learning algorithms were proposed that promise quantum speed-ups over their classical counterparts. Most of these learning algorithm…

quant-ph2020★ 18 cited

Simpler (classical) and faster (quantum) algorithms for Gibbs partition functions

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Vojtech Havlicek, Giacomo Nannicini +2

We present classical and quantum algorithms for approximating partition functions of classical Hamiltonians at a given temperature. Our work has two main contributions: first, we m…

quant-ph2020★ 131 cited

Sample-efficient learning of quantum many-body systems

Anurag Anshu, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Tomotaka Kuwahara +1

We study the problem of learning the Hamiltonian of a quantum many-body system given samples from its Gibbs (thermal) state. The classical analog of this problem, known as learning…

quant-ph2020★ 9 cited

Quantum Coupon Collector

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Aleksandrs Belovs, Andrew M. Childs +3

We study how efficiently a -element set can be learned from a uniform superposition of its elements. One can think of $|S\rangle=\sum_{i\in S}|i\rang…

quant-ph2020★ 19 cited

Quantum statistical query learning

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Alex B. Grilo, Henry Yuen

We propose a learning model called the quantum statistical learning QSQ model, which extends the SQ learning model introduced by Kearns to the quantum setting. Our model can be als…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Quantum Boosting

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Reevu Maity

Suppose we have a weak learning algorithm for a Boolean-valued problem: produces hypotheses whose bias is small, only slightly better than random gu…

quant-ph2019

Quantum hardness of learning shallow classical circuits

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Alex B. Grilo, Aarthi Sundaram

In this paper we study the quantum learnability of constant-depth classical circuits under the uniform distribution and in the distribution-independent framework of PAC learning. I…

quant-ph2018★ 9 cited

Two new results about quantum exact learning

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Sourav Chakraborty, Troy Lee +2

We present two new results about exact learning by quantum computers. First, we show how to exactly learn a -Fourier-sparse -bit Boolean function from …

quant-ph2017★ 20 cited

Quantum Query Algorithms are Completely Bounded Forms

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Jop Briët, Carlos Palazuelos

We prove a characterization of -query quantum algorithms in terms of the unit ball of a space of degree- polynomials. Based on this, we obtain a refined notion of approximat…

quant-ph2017★ 106 cited

Optimizing quantum optimization algorithms via faster quantum gradient computation

András Gilyén, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Nathan Wiebe

We consider a generic framework of optimization algorithms based on gradient descent. We develop a quantum algorithm that computes the gradient of a multi-variate real-valued funct…

quant-ph2017★ 43 cited

A Survey of Quantum Learning Theory

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Ronald de Wolf

This paper surveys quantum learning theory: the theoretical aspects of machine learning using quantum computers. We describe the main results known for three models of learning: ex…

quant-ph2016★ 21 cited

Optimal Quantum Sample Complexity of Learning Algorithms

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Ronald de Wolf

In learning theory, the VC dimension of a concept class is the most common way to measure its "richness." In the PAC model $$ Θ\Big(\frac{d}{\…

quant-ph2015

Optimizing the Number of Gates in Quantum Search

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Ronald de Wolf

In its usual form, Grover's quantum search algorithm uses queries and other elementary gates to find a solution in an -bit database. Grover…