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48 results for amplitude amplification

Quantum tech speeds up financial risk assessment.

problem Improving credit valuation adjustments using quantum mechanics.
method Developed a quantum algorithm using Bayesian quantum amplitude estimation and engineered likelihood functions.
result Significant speedup in quantum computations for CVA over classical methods.

Quantum method speeds up risk estimation for insurance tail risks.

problem Sample-sparsity in classical Monte Carlo methods for tail risk pricing.
method Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) with Grover amplification.
result Quantum method achieves convergence approaching order reciprocal N, enabling high-resolution tail estimation within practical budgets.

Quantum algorithm reduces CVA risk-neutral expectation estimation costs.

problem Reducing Monte Carlo sampling cost for CVA on real quantum hardware.
method Noise-aware quantum workflow combining market calibration, discretisation, and oracle construction.
result CABIQAE achieves lower classical post-processing runtime and more effective error exploitation.

Quantum method improves CVaR evaluation under correlated fields.

problem Accurately evaluating CVaR in high-dimensional, correlated material uncertainty.
method Quantum-enhanced inference framework using stabilized IQAE.
result Quantum method achieves lower oracle complexity than classical methods.

We demonstrate how quantum computation can provide non-trivial improvements in the computational and statistical complexity of the perceptron model. We develop two quantum algorithms for perceptron learning. The first algorithm exploits quantum information processing to determine a separating hyperplane using a number …

2016-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum algorithm estimates multivariate mean with near-optimal efficiency.

problem Estimating the mean of multivariate random variables efficiently in quantum computing.
method Combines amplitude amplification, quantum singular value transformation, and Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm.
result Quantum estimator outperforms classical estimators outside low-precision regime.

Quantum mechanics is inherently probabilistic in light of Born's rule. Using quantum circuits as probabilistic generative models for classical data exploits their superior expressibility and efficient direct sampling ability. However, training of quantum circuits can be more challenging compared to classical neural net…

2018-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Diffusion models accurately recover mixture weights from generated samples despite score function insensitivity.

problem Score-based generative models often fail to learn correct relative mode amplitudes (mixture weights) from generated samples.
method Relate diffusion score matching (DSM) loss to mixture weight estimation error, define diffusion score sensitivity index (DSSI), and prove its governing role in mixture weight recovery.
result Generated samples can accurately recover mixture weights from the DSM loss, even when the target score is insensitive to mixture weights.

Improves privacy amplification by shuffling for differential privacy.

problem Enhancing privacy guarantees in systems with anonymous data contributions.
method Theoretical and numerical analysis of Rényi differential privacy parameters and privacy amplification by shuffling.
result First asymptotically optimal analysis of Rényi differential privacy parameters for shuffled outputs.

We study the phenomenon of bias amplification in classifiers, wherein a machine learning model learns to predict classes with a greater disparity than the underlying ground truth. We demonstrate that bias amplification can arise via an inductive bias in gradient descent methods that results in the overestimation of the…

2018-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient amplification boosts deep learning model performance without increasing training time.

problem Vanishing gradients in deep neural networks.
method Gradient amplification approach to prevent vanishing gradients and training strategy to enable/disable across epochs.
result Improves performance of deep learning models with reduced training time.

Privacy is enhanced by synthetic data release even with unlimited data.

problem Improving privacy guarantees for synthetic data release.
method Analyzing a bounded-parameter assumption to show privacy amplification persists with unlimited synthetic records.
result Privacy amplification is possible even with an unbounded number of synthetic records.

Privacy amplification improved through contraction coefficients and EγE_γ-divergence.

problem Improving privacy guarantees in iterative algorithms.
method Using contraction coefficients derived from EγE_γ-divergence to determine differential privacy parameters.
result Tighter bounds on differential privacy parameters of iterative algorithms.

This paper shows how learning the phase-amplitude coupling improves bio-signal classification.

problem Discarding phase component in bio-signal feature extraction leads to poor generalization.
method Introducing a novel self-supervised learning task called Phase-Swap to detect phase-amplitude coupling.
result Neural networks trained on Phase-Swap task generalize better across subjects and recording sessions.

A fast method for estimating radar amplitude density parameters.

problem Accurate estimation of amplitude density function parameters in radar applications.
method Projecting amplitude data onto horizontal and vertical axes, then using MLE for α\alpha-stale distribution parameters.
result The average of computed MLEs based on two projections is a fast and accurate estimator for amplitude distribution parameters.

Structured subsampling improves privacy in deep time series forecasting.

problem Incompatible privacy guarantees with time series forecasting.
method Structured subsampling of sequential data for privacy amplification.
result Structured subsampling enables training with strong privacy guarantees.

Latent-state environments with long horizons, such as those faced by recommender systems, pose significant challenges for reinforcement learning (RL). In this work, we identify and analyze several key hurdles for RL in such environments, including belief state error and small action advantage. We develop a general prin…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved formulation of spinfoam quantum gravity with cosmological constant, ensuring all amplitudes are finite and providing semiclassical asymptotics.

problem Ensuring the finiteness of spinfoam amplitudes and providing semiclassical asymptotics for quantum gravity.
method Using state-integral model of PSL(2, C\mathbb{C}) Chern-Simons theory and implementing simplicity constraint.
result All spinfoam amplitudes are finite and provide semiclassical asymptotics with oscillatory terms related to the Regge action.

Atiyah classes of DG manifolds of positive amplitude are invariant under weak equivalences.

problem Defining and studying Hochschild cohomology of DG manifolds of positive amplitude.
method Using poly-differential operators and derived intersection, proving invariance under weak equivalences.
result Hochschild cohomology of DG manifolds of positive amplitude is invariant under weak equivalences.

The paper provides exact multivariate amplitude distributions for non-stationary Gaussian or algebraic fluctuations.

problem Capturing the statistical properties of fluctuating correlations in non-stationary systems.
method Developed a random matrix model to average multivariate amplitude distributions from short time scales to large time scales.
result Explicit multivariate distributions for non-stationary correlation systems are provided, capturing the degree of non-stationarity.

We define a topological quantum membrane theory on a seven dimensional manifold of G2G_2 holonomy. We describe in detail the path integral evaluation for membrane geometries given by circle bundles over Riemann surfaces. We show that when the target space is CY3×S1CY_3\times S^1 quantum amplitudes of non-local observables …

2006-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A fundamental result in differential privacy states that the privacy guarantees of a mechanism are preserved by any post-processing of its output. In this paper we investigate under what conditions stochastic post-processing can amplify the privacy of a mechanism. By interpreting post-processing as the application of a…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Many real world learning tasks involve complex or hard-to-specify objectives, and using an easier-to-specify proxy can lead to poor performance or misaligned behavior. One solution is to have humans provide a training signal by demonstrating or judging performance, but this approach fails if the task is too complicated…

2018-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We demonstrate the equivalence of all loop closed topological string amplitudes on toric local Calabi-Yau threefolds with computations of certain knot invariants for Chern-Simons theory. We use this equivalence to compute the topological string amplitudes in certain cases to very high degree and to all genera. In parti…

2002-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for privacy amplification without sampling for matrix factorization.

problem Privacy amplification for differentially private model training with matrix factorization.
method Sampling-free bounds based on Rényi divergence and conditional composition.
result Stronger privacy guarantees for small ε, applicable to various matrices.

Unified framework for subsampling mechanisms with tighter privacy guarantees.

problem Improving privacy in machine learning models through subsampling.
method Conditional optimal transport for deriving mechanism-specific subsampling guarantees.
result Tighter privacy bounds for subsampled mechanisms compared to traditional methods.

PolarBM models complex-valued audio signals in polar coordinates, improving over conventional methods.

problem Discarding structural information in complex-valued problems simplifies models but loses important amplitude-phase relationships.
method Proposes PolarBM, a novel Boltzmann machine for complex-valued variables in polar coordinates, and LogPolarBM for logarithmic amplitude.
result PolarBM and LogPolarBM achieve superior modeling accuracy compared to conventional models, including deep neural networks.

We introduce a fully coherent spin network amplitude whose expansion generates all SU(2) spin networks associated with a given graph. We then give an explicit evaluation of this amplitude for an arbitrary graph. We show how this coherent amplitude can be obtained from the specialization of a generating functional obtai…

2012-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel Bayesian prior for neural networks encodes amplitude and lengthscale.

problem Lack of user-friendly priors for specifying basic properties in Bayesian neural networks.
method Introduced Poisson Process Radial Basis Function Networks (PP-RBFN) as a novel prior.
result PP-RBFN allows decoupled specification of amplitude and lengthscale, and estimated function is consistent.

We study topological open string amplitudes on orientifolds without fixed planes. We determine the contributions of the untwisted and twisted sectors as well as the BPS structure of the amplitudes. We illustrate our general results in various examples involving D-branes in toric orientifolds. We perform the computation…

2004-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves a category of dg manifolds with finite positive amplitude.

problem Understanding the structure of dg manifolds with finite positive amplitude.
method Using path spaces and homotopy transfer theorem for curved L[1]L_\infty[1]-algebras.
result Proves that dg manifolds of finite positive amplitude form a category of fibrant objects.

Algorithm finds frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of sinusoids in noisy data.

problem Finding frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of sinusoids in noisy data.
method Maximum likelihood approach to estimate tone parameters from contaminated observations. Successively estimates frequencies and jointly optimizes amplitudes and phases.
result Near-linear computational complexity (O(N)) for estimating MM number of sinusoidal sources.

New sampling scheme improves privacy in DP-SGD without sacrificing utility.

problem Suboptimal privacy amplification due to participation variance in Poisson subsampling.
method Balanced Iteration Subsampling (BIS) with structured randomness.
result BIS achieves stronger privacy amplification than Poisson subsampling and is optimal at both extremes of noise spectrum.

We decompose the exchange rates returns of 41 currencies (incl. gold) into their sign and amplitude components. Then we group together all exchange rates with a common base currency, construct Minimal Spanning Trees for each group independently, and analyze properties of these trees. We show that both the sign and the …

2009-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We mathematically compare four competing definitions of group-level nondiscrimination: demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity, and calibration. Using the theoretical framework of Friedler et al., we study the properties of each definition under various worldviews, which are assumptions about how, if at a…

2018-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗