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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
A provable quantum advantage for approximate optimization via decoded quantum interferometry ↗
Decoded quantum interferometry (DQI) is a novel paradigm for tackling approximate optimization problems on quantum computers. This framework comes with strong performance guarantees and exploits a well-established duality between optimization and coding theory. A central question, however, is whether DQI can actually provably outperform all polynomial-time classical algorithms. In this work, we establish such an advantage in an oracle setting: we consider an optimization task called folded optimal polynomial intersection (folded OPI), where the acceptance sets are chosen randomly and accessed…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
One-Shot any Code ↗
We first provide a simple proof showing that any single-shot code is self-correcting. We then show that any $[[n,k]]$ CSS quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code can be transformed into an $[[nm,k]]$ CSS QLDPC code with single-shot (SS) quantum error correction and an efficient local decoder which runs in $O(\log m)$ parallel time. Below a constant threshold $p_{\rm RG}>0$ for joint local stochastic physical and measurement noise, the logical failure probability over $T$ correction rounds is bounded by \begin{equation*} O(T n)\exp[-Ω(m^α)] \end{equation*} for a constant $α>0$; we say tha…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
MIRTO: a registration-gated, multiverse-tested evaluation protocol for unsupervised anomaly segmentation in brain MRI ↗
Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods for brain MRI are ranked by a single score, yet that score rests on choices that are rarely reported: how each anomaly map is aligned with the reference, how and on which data the threshold is set, and which false-positive budget, metric, aggregation and lesion definition are used. We present MIRTO, an evaluation protocol that makes these choices explicit and measures their effect. It gates the geometry of every comparison with a registration check and label-free diagnostics of known power, sets thresholds on validation data alone and reports the fa…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Random Quantum Circuits Beyond Moment Matching ↗
Random quantum circuits aim to efficiently reproduce the statistical properties of ideal random quantum evolution. One approach is to construct approximate unitary designs, which match the moments of Haar-random unitaries up to a prescribed order with controlled error. In this work, we establish quantitative guarantees for how accurately these designs reproduce the full distributions of individual output probabilities. We show that, for every strong $\varepsilon$-approximate unitary $k$-design on $n$ qubits, the distribution of each individual output probability is within $O\left(\sqrt{\frac{2…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
A Generalized quantum Stein lemma on von Neumann algebras ↗
We prove a generalized quantum Stein lemma for i.i.d. normal states against convex, tensor-stable families on arbitrary von Neumann algebras. Assuming the existence of an alternative state with finite relative entropy from the null state, we show that, at every type-I error tolerance $\varepsilon\in (0,1)$, the worst case type-II error exponent is achieved with the regularized relative entropy with a strong converse. The proof combines the integral representation of relative entropy by hockey-stick divergences, a modular testing bound, and convex minimax argument.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Optimal transducers using symmetries ↗
Transducers (Belovs, Jeffery and Yolcu, 2024) are a quantum computing framework describing a quantum algorithm as a unitary converting an input state into a target state using a catalyst, an auxiliary vector that is left unchanged. They are a powerful tool in quantum algorithm design, especially in the context of quantum query complexity: feasible points of the (dual) adversary semidefinite program directly translate into transducers and the optimal transduction complexity is equal to the adversary bound, i.e. the Las Vegas complexity, which is known to characterize bounded-error quantum query…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Quantum impurity models: easy at equilibrium, universal in motion ↗
A quantum impurity model describes a small interacting subsystem embedded into a large bath of free fermions. Here we study the computational complexity of calculating the ground energy, thermal equilibrium, and dynamical properties of these models. Our work reveals a sharp contrast: equilibrium properties can be efficiently approximated by classical means, whereas time evolution can implement a universal quantum computation. More precisely, let $H$ be the Hamiltonian of an impurity model with $n$ fermionic modes and a constant-size impurity. We show that: (1) the ground energy of $H$ can be a…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Spiking neural networks for streaming qubit readout ↗
Fast and accurate qubit-state assignment is essential for feedback, calibration, and error correction in quantum processors. In superconducting platforms, frequency-multiplexed readout makes this task intrinsically multivariate as measured traces can encode crosstalk, qubit-state relaxation events, and other transient nonidealities that are not fully captured by conventional matched filtering. Here, we introduce spiking neural network (SNN) discriminators for superconducting qubit readout. By processing the measurement window in successive time chunks, the networks exploit temporal structure a…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Local random quantum circuits converge to the Porter-Thomas distribution in polynomial depth ↗
Porter-Thomas statistics are a characteristic feature of the output distribution of random quantum states and, more broadly, chaotic quantum many-body systems. Convergence to Porter-Thomas plays a central role in random circuit sampling and experimental demonstrations of quantum advantage, where the output statistics of low-depth random quantum circuits are expected to be approximately Porter-Thomas, despite the absence of a rigorous proof of convergence. We show that the output distribution of polynomial-depth brickwork random circuits converges inverse-polynomially in total variation distanc…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Quantum Advantage for Two-Party Differential Privacy ↗
We introduce information-theoretically private quantum protocols for two-party Hamming distance when both parties must output the same estimate. Classically, for input length $n$, information-theoretic protocols require $Ω(\sqrt{n})$ error under pure differential privacy and $Ω(\sqrt{n}/\log n)$ error under strong approximate differential privacy, whereas computational security permits $O(1)$ error. In Klauck's honest, nonpreemptive, message-preserving model, we give an $O(n)$-communication quantum protocol with pure $\varepsilon$ quantum differential privacy (QDP) and expected error at most $…
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