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48 results for computational advantage

Quantum machine learning offers advantages for broader learning tasks.

problem Demonstrate QML advantage over classical methods for general learning tasks.
method Construct a new family of supervised learning tasks and prove their hardness.
result Prove provable advantage of QML based on general quantum computational advantages.

Convolutional networks outperform fully-connected ones in certain tasks.

problem Understanding the computational advantage of convolutional networks over fully-connected networks.
method Demonstrated a computational advantage through a specific problem class.
result Convolutional networks can solve certain problems that fully-connected networks cannot, even with gradient descent.

VQAs use classical optimization to train quantum circuits, promising quantum advantage.

problem High computational cost of quantum simulations and solving large-scale problems.
method Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) use classical optimizers to train parametrized quantum circuits.
result VQAs are a promising strategy for obtaining quantum advantage.

In the past decade, the field of quantum machine learning has drawn significant attention due to the prospect of bringing genuine computational advantages to now widespread algorithmic methods. However, not all domains of machine learning have benefited equally from quantum enhancements. Notably, deep learning and rein…

2019-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

This study improves quantum classifiers by optimizing data preprocessing.

problem Quantum Machine Learning advantages are not yet clearly demonstrated.
method Used Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for data preprocessing.
result Variational Quantum Algorithm (VQA) outperforms classical classifiers.

Two new criteria help understand the advantage of deep neural networks.

problem Understanding the advantage of deepening neural networks.
method Proposed two new criteria to evaluate the expressivity of functions computable by deep neural networks.
result Increasing layers is more effective than increasing units in improving the expressivity of deep neural networks.

New method explains computational barriers in high-dimensional statistical models.

problem Understanding detection-recovery gaps in high-dimensional inference.
method Combining algorithmic contiguity and cross-validation reduction to obtain conditional computational lower bounds.
result Mild control of low-degree advantage is sufficient to explain computational barriers for recovery.

Quantum algorithms for financial derivatives and credit risk.

problem Estimating credit risk and option pricing in realistic financial models.
method Developed a regime switching volatility model for financial markets, using a Markov chain to determine volatility parameters.
result Quantum algorithms can be applied to realistic financial models, bringing quantum computing closer to practical applications.

RQMC improves kernel-based learning by reducing deterministic error and offering computational advantages.

problem Improving kernel-based learning methods to reduce deterministic error and computational complexity.
method Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) methods applied to random feature approximations.
result RQMC methods improve deterministic approximation error bound from OP(1/M)O_P(1/\sqrt{M}) to O(1/M)O(1/M), matching QMC methods.

Sparse activations in neural networks are hard to exploit but lead to advantages in learning.

problem Sparse activations in neural networks are hard to exploit but lead to advantages in learning.
method Formal study of PAC learnability of MLP layers with activation sparsity.
result Classes of functions with activation sparsity lead to provable computational and statistical advantages over their non-sparse counterparts.

Hybrid quantum-classical RL model solves standard benchmark tasks and proves quantum advantage.

problem Challenges in reinforcement learning, especially in solving standard benchmarking tasks.
method Parametrized quantum circuits in a hybrid quantum-classical RL model.
result Demonstrates quantum advantage in solving standard benchmarking tasks and intractable classical problems.

Paper studies binary random projections with controllable sparsity patterns for computational and accuracy advantages.

problem Improving computational efficiency and accuracy in random projections.
method Proposes two sparse binary projection models with controllable sparsity patterns.
result Significant computational advantages and improved accuracies in empirical evaluations.

We introduce the C++ library Wedge, based on GiNaC, for symbolic computations in differential geometry. We show how Wedge makes it possible to use the language C++ to perform such computations, and illustrate some advantages of this approach with explicit examples. In particular, we describe a short program to determin…

2008-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum kernels offer potential speed-ups but require encoding problem-specific knowledge.

problem Generalization difficulty in high-dimensional feature spaces.
method Analysis of spectral properties of quantum kernels and their RKHS.
result Quantum advantage is expected if RKHS is low-dimensional and contains hard-to-compute functions.

Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling servers in distributed computing, with the following limitations: First, they increase decoding complexity. Second, they ignore computations carried out by straggling servers; and they are typically designed to recover the full gradient, and thus, canno…

2018-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The scalability of statistical estimators is of increasing importance in modern applications. One approach to implementing scalable algorithms is to compress data into a low dimensional latent space using dimension reduction methods. In this paper we develop an approach for dimension reduction that exploits the assumpt…

2015-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Money is a technology for promoting economic prosperity. Over history money has become increasingly abstract, it used to be hardware, gold coins and the like, now it is mostly software, data structures located in banks. Here I propose the logical conclusion of the abstraction of money: to use as money the most general …

2016-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Gaussian processes (GPs) are nonparametric priors over functions. Fitting a GP implies computing a posterior distribution of functions consistent with the observed data. Similarly, deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) should allow us to compute a posterior distribution of compositions of multiple functions giving rise to the…

2019-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a mean field game model to study the question of how centralization of reward and computational power occur in Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies. Miners compete against each other for mining rewards by increasing their computational power. This leads to a novel mean field game of jump intensity control, which we…

2019-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular network connections that not only demand extra representation efforts but also …

2015-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Woodbury transformations improve deep generative models with efficient invertibility and determinant calculation.

problem Efficiently invertible and determinant-calculable functions for deep generative models.
method Introducing Woodbury transformations that leverage matrix identities for efficient invertibility and determinant calculation.
result Woodbury transformations enable high-dimensional interactions, efficient sampling, and likelihood evaluation, outperforming other flow architectures.

This paper strengthens the computational separation between multimodal and unimodal learning, showing unimodal learning is hard on typical instances.

problem Theoretical justification for empirical success of multimodal machine learning.
method Introduced a stronger average-case computational separation between unimodal and multimodal learning.
result For typical instances, unimodal learning is computationally hard, while multimodal learning is easy.

Quantum ML promises faster data analysis but faces trainability challenges.

problem Challenges in training quantum machine learning models.
method Review of current methods and applications of quantum neural networks and quantum deep learning.
result Opportunities for quantum advantage in quantum machine learning.

Distributed securities exchanges may become de facto fragmented if they span geographical regions with asymmetric computer infrastructure. First, we build an economic model of a decentralized exchange with two miner clusters, standing in for compact areas of economic activity (e.g., cities). "Local" miners in the area …

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Fuelled by increasing computer power and algorithmic advances, machine learning techniques have become powerful tools for finding patterns in data. Since quantum systems produce counter-intuitive patterns believed not to be efficiently produced by classical systems, it is reasonable to postulate that quantum computers …

2016-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Probabilistic models are conceptually powerful tools for finding structure in data, but their practical effectiveness is often limited by our ability to perform inference in them. Exact inference is frequently intractable, so approximate inference is often performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). To achieve the…

2012-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new simulator for complex arrival processes.

problem Modeling and simulating complex arrival processes with non-stationary and multi-dimensional rates.
method Integrates Monte Carlo and GANs to model a broad class of arrival processes.
result Consistent and efficient estimation of the simulator using Wasserstein distance.

Paper proves computational hardness for graph matching and detection problems.

problem Computational hardness for graph matching and detection problems in correlated random graphs.
method Algorithmic contiguity and low-degree advantage bounds.
result No efficient algorithms exist for certain graph matching and detection problems.

Integrates differentiable decision trees into neural networks for faster training and inference.

problem Combining differentiability and conditional computation in tree ensembles for neural networks.
method Sparse activation function and specialized forward/backward propagation algorithms for efficient training and inference.
result 10x speed-ups and 20x reduction in parameters compared to existing methods, while maintaining performance.

Quantum Signal Processing reduces derivative pricing quantum resource requirements.

problem Efficiently pricing financial derivatives on quantum computers.
method Quantum Signal Processing (QSP) to encode payoffs directly into quantum amplitudes.
result Significantly reduces quantum resources (T-gates and qubits) for practical derivative contracts.

Convolutional architectures have recently been shown to be competitive on many sequence modelling tasks when compared to the de-facto standard of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), while providing computational and modeling advantages due to inherent parallelism. However, currently there remains a performance gap to mor…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗