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quant-ph2026

From Quantum Tunneling to Classical Optimization through Instantons

Jiayu Shen, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +5

We use an instanton-based analysis to show that Path Integral Stochastic Gradient Descent (PISGD), a classical optimization algorithm instantiated from path integral Monte Carlo (P…

quant-ph2026

Quantum-Informed Portfolio Selection: An End-to-End Pipeline Validated on Trapped-Ion Hardware with Real Market Data

Romina Yalovetzky, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Zichang He +11

Portfolio diversification - a cornerstone of modern investment management - can be formulated as a Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on asset correlation graphs. Solving this p…

quant-ph2025

Provably faster randomized and quantum algorithms for -means clustering via uniform sampling

Tyler Chen, Archan Ray, Akshay Seshadri +6

The -means algorithm (Lloyd's algorithm) is a widely used method for clustering unlabeled data. A key bottleneck of the -means algorithm is that each iteration requires time…

quant-ph2025★ 33 cited

Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor

Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula +29

While quantum computers have the potential to perform a wide range of practically important tasks beyond the capabilities of classical computers, realizing this potential remains a…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Applications of Certified Randomness

Omar Amer, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Kaushik Chakraborty +8

Certified randomness can be generated with untrusted remote quantum computers using multiple known protocols, one of which has been recently realized experimentally. Unlike the ran…

quant-ph2024

QC-Forest: a Classical-Quantum Algorithm to Provably Speedup Retraining of Random Forest

Romina Yalovetzky, Niraj Kumar, Changhao Li +1

Random Forest (RF) is a popular tree-ensemble method for supervised learning, prized for its ease of use and flexibility. Online RF models require to account for new training data…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Prospects of Privacy Advantage in Quantum Machine Learning

Jamie Heredge, Niraj Kumar, Dylan Herman +5

Ensuring data privacy in machine learning models is critical, particularly in distributed settings where model gradients are typically shared among multiple parties to allow collab…

quant-ph2024

Quantum option pricing via the Karhunen-Loève expansion

Anupam Prakash, Yue Sun, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +8

We consider the problem of pricing discretely monitored Asian options over monitoring points where the underlying asset is modeled by a geometric Brownian motion. We provide tw…

quant-ph2023★ 22 cited

Privacy-preserving quantum federated learning via gradient hiding

Changhao Li, Niraj Kumar, Zhixin Song +2

Distributed quantum computing, particularly distributed quantum machine learning, has gained substantial prominence for its capacity to harness the collective power of distributed…

quant-ph2023★ 13 cited

Blind quantum machine learning with quantum bipartite correlator

Changhao Li, Boning Li, Omar Amer +11

Distributed quantum computing is a promising computational paradigm for performing computations that are beyond the reach of individual quantum devices. Privacy in distributed quan…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Expressive variational quantum circuits provide inherent privacy in federated learning

Niraj Kumar, Jamie Heredge, Changhao Li +3

Federated learning has emerged as a viable distributed solution to train machine learning models without the actual need to share data with the central aggregator. However, standar…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Des-q: a quantum algorithm to provably speedup retraining of decision trees

Niraj Kumar, Romina Yalovetzky, Changhao Li +2

Decision trees are widely adopted machine learning models due to their simplicity and explainability. However, as training data size grows, standard methods become increasingly slo…

quant-ph2023★ 66 cited

The Adjoint Is All You Need: Characterizing Barren Plateaus in Quantum Ansätze

Enrico Fontana, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +5

Using tools from the representation theory of compact Lie groups, we formulate a theory of Barren Plateaus (BPs) for parameterized quantum circuits whose observables lie in their d…