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6 papers

quant-ph2026

Proper and improper mixed states serve as different prior beliefs for quantum state retrodiction

Mingxuan Liu, Valerio Scarani, Ge Bai

A mixed quantum state can be taken as capturing an unspecified form of ignorance; or as describing the lack of knowledge about the true pure state of the system ("proper mixture");…

quant-ph2026

Unifying Quantum Smoothing Theories with Extended Retrodiction

Mingxuan Liu, Ge Bai, Valerio Scarani

Estimating the state of an open quantum system monitored over time requires incorporating information from past measurements (filtering) and, for improved accuracy, also from futur…

quant-ph2026

A quantum entropy production operator

Ge Bai, Francesco Buscemi, Valerio Scarani

We introduce a fully quantum notion of entropy production based on the non-commutative extension of the classical log-ratio between forward and reverse processes. Given a pair of q…

cs.LG2026

Guiding Distribution Matching Distillation with Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning

Linwei Dong, Ruoyu Guo, Ge Bai +3

Diffusion distillation, exemplified by Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), has shown great promise in few-step generation but often sacrifices quality for sampling speed. Whi…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Bayes' rule and Petz transpose map from the minimum change principle

Ge Bai, Francesco Buscemi, Valerio Scarani

Bayes' rule, which is routinely used to update beliefs based on new evidence, can be derived from a principle of minimum change. This principle states that updated beliefs must be…

quant-ph2025

Bayesian retrodiction of quantum supermaps

Ge Bai

The Petz map has been established as a quantum version of the Bayes' rule. It unifies the conceptual belief update rule of a quantum state observed after a forward quantum process,…