collaborators

11 papers

quant-ph2026

Affine Filtering Measurements and Their Applications to Quantum Decoding

Avijit Mandal, Noah Shutty, Henry D. Pfister +1

Unambiguous state discrimination (USD) measurements are attractive because outcomes are either marked as conclusive (i.e., error free) or inconclusive (i.e., erased). We study affi…

cs.LG2026

Conservation Laws for Diffusion Models

Ziv Aharoni, Henry D. Pfister

While autoregressive models optimize the exact data likelihood via the chain rule, diffusion models are typically trained with denoising objectives. We develop conservation laws ba…

quant-ph2026

Towards Scalable Quaternary Message-Passing Decoding for Quantum Error Correction

Boqing Zhang, Henry D. Pfister, Hanwen Yao +1

The scalability and interpretability of message-passing (MP) decoding, such as (quaternary) Belief Propagation, remain open challenges in quantum error correction. Even for surface…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Message Passing for Factor Graphs over Finite Abelian Groups

Avijit Mandal, Henry D. Pfister

We develop a quantum message-passing framework for factor graphs over finite abelian groups. Our starting point is the task of discriminating between a collection of quantum states…

cs.IT2026

Belief Propagation with Quantum Messages for Symmetric Q-ary Pure-State Channels

Avijit Mandal, Henry D. Pfister

Belief propagation with quantum messages (BPQM) provides a low-complexity alternative to collective measurements for communication over classical--quantum channels. Prior BPQM cons…

eess.SP2025

A Study of Neural Polar Decoders for Communication

Rom Hirsch, Ziv Aharoni, Henry D. Pfister +1

In this paper, we adapt and analyze Neural Polar Decoders (NPDs) for end-to-end communication systems. While prior work demonstrated the effectiveness of NPDs on synthetic channels…