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Will Kirby Mar 24 2023 19:31 UTC

UPDATE: from the comments below it looks like quantumfugazi is now making a good-faith effort to engage with the paper as well as other commenters. So I retract my claim that they are probably a troll. ORIGINAL: Although I know I'm probably responding to a troll (quantumfugazi joined scirate for the

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Ryan Babbush Mar 24 2023 14:30 UTC

Thanks Aram, that is correct.

Miguel Murça Mar 24 2023 13:16 UTC

Fantastic title, at the very least.

Aram Harrow Mar 24 2023 13:05 UTC

I haven't read the paper but presumably this would take $2^n$ classical springs vs $O(n)$ qubits. Also, couldn't you phrase your comment more politely?

@quantumfugazi Mar 24 2023 11:56 UTC

I am sorry but I can simulate these coupled classical oscillators using coupled springs (Mapping Newton to Newton). Should I call it Spring supremacy?

Vladimir Kalnitsky Mar 23 2023 09:36 UTC

If practicalities are discussed, isn't there an important issue of space complexity? My understanding is that for hard problems both Grover's and QiGA would have exponential time complexity, but the former will have polynomial space complexity while the latter's will be exponential.

Miles Stoudenmire Mar 23 2023 03:17 UTC

@Bibek, thanks for your thoughtful engagement with the paper. Just to clarify, while we do indeed show a tensor network in Section III for the oracle (Eq. (13)) where the target bitstring(s) w can simply be read off (i.e. are exposed from the outset), later in Section IV we use oracles where the tar

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Miles Stoudenmire Mar 23 2023 03:03 UTC

Thanks for the question, Xiao-Ming.

Indeed, just after the oracle step of QiGA, i.e. applying the oracle circuit to the |s> product state, indeed we have an MPS of the post-oracle state. Then we subtract |s> from that to get another MPS. This MPS is a superposition of all of the "target" bitstrin

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Namit Anand Mar 22 2023 23:24 UTC

A lot of comments have already been made but I'll just leave a link to Scott Aaronson's blogpost about the preprint (in case someone missed it): https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7143

Alex Meiburg Mar 22 2023 18:57 UTC

Bibek: A subtle point about the 2^(n/2) time is that isn't just the one that maximizes the success probability, it is also (within a constant factor) the one that minimizes the time to solution. The exact number that maximizes the success probability is f(n) = (pi/4)*2^(n/2). If you instead run for

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Bibek Pokharel Mar 22 2023 18:49 UTC

@Adam: As Grover’s algorithm is conceptualized in the context of an unstructured algorithm, the issue of what additional structure is known about the oracle (or the oracle unitary) is everything. Consider the two-qubit Grover, once you know the explicit quantum circuits/unitary, the entire algorithm

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Adam Callison Mar 22 2023 09:52 UTC

While I don't necessarily disagree that the results might be a little oversold, the innovation here is that they are not allowing the classical algorithm access to any additional structure beyond what is already available to GA.

Noel Mar 22 2023 08:27 UTC

The paper claims: "The form of |Ψw⟩ as a sum of product states in Eq. (15) immediately presents a classical strategy to extract the solution states {|wi⟩} in a single step: one simply sub- tracts the state |s⟩. Subtracting a product state such as |s⟩ from an MPS is a straightforward operation with a

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Xiao-Ming Zhang Mar 22 2023 04:43 UTC

Hi Miles and Xavier,

Your work is very interesting. But I think there is a subtle difference between the output of your QiGA and Grover’s algorithm. Please correct me if I misunderstood.

In Grover’s algorithm, one can obtain the exact bitstring $b$ satisfying $f(b)=1$. However, the final out

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Ryan Babbush Mar 22 2023 01:26 UTC

Adam, it has always been clear that applying Grover to structured databases doesn't "generically" guarantee a quadratic speedup, let alone quantum advantage, because you can often classically search such databases in time less than 2^n (e.g., this is the case for 3-SAT). But these results seem to be

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Bibek Pokharel Mar 21 2023 23:16 UTC

Hi Miles and Xavier,

Your paper has generated a lot of interest. So firstly, congratulations. After reading the article, I felt that the claims were more ambitious than the evidence you provided. I have some questions, and I am posting them here for everyone to see. Please feel free to respond here

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MariusK Mar 21 2023 23:07 UTC

Cool work!

You make estimates for the ration $N_C$ of physical to logical qubits, and argue that it grows quadratically. What does that mean for the run time, measured in elementary gates on physical qubits?

If one assumed that one had a perfect transversal gate set, perhaps the circuit depth

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Ryan Babbush Mar 21 2023 22:44 UTC

It is well understood that applying Grover's algorithm to 3-SAT in the standard way would not give a quadratic speedup over the best classical algorithm for 3-SAT in the worst case (and especially not on average). But there are problems for which Grover is expected to give a quadratic speedup over a

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Bibek Pokharel Mar 21 2023 19:58 UTC

Hi Miles, If I understand correctly, the 2^{n/2} iterations is the theoretical optimum for maximizing the success probability on a noiseless quantum device. Is it necessary to call the oracle that many times on a noisy device? It is clear that the experimentally optimal number of oracles calls will

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Miles Stoudenmire Mar 21 2023 15:32 UTC

Thanks - we will think about clarifying that sentence in the abstract, but we had to be brief there in the limited space. We do unpack the details and implications of what it really means to "call" the oracle classically quite thoroughly in the main text in many places. We also say that we believe t

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Simon Apers Mar 21 2023 14:00 UTC

I find the following phrase from the abstract quite misleading:

> "we construct a quantum inspired algorithm, executable on a classical
> computer, that performs Grover's task in a linear number of call to
> the oracle - an exponentially smaller number than Grover's algorithm"

The way you de

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Adam Callison Mar 21 2023 11:36 UTC

I believe the basis of this claim is that the theoretical quantum speed-up isn't generic: it would need to be proven on a problem-by-problem basis by assessing the simulability of the oracle. The practical issues become relevant in the cases when a theoretical quantum speed-up does exist.

Daniel Stilck Franca Mar 20 2023 20:14 UTC

Hi everyone!
This discussion is very interesting! I would like to add a few points that I also discussed per email with Nengkun, Tzu-Chieh and Cambyse:

1. I believe we also do not need to know the structure of the circuit if you want a trace distance bound and can afford a polynomial number of

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Nengkun Yu Mar 18 2023 21:25 UTC

Hi Robert,

Thank you very much for explaining your method.
Using the random Clifford measurements shadow and pure state classical shadow is a great idea. This method reduces the sample complexity, as you explained.

However, we restrict ourselves to local measurements, i.e., Pauli measurement

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Hsin-Yuan Huang Mar 17 2023 21:31 UTC

Hi Nengkun and Tzu-Chieh,

Right! The approaches taken by the two papers are quite different. Cambyse Rouzé and Daniel Stilck França reduce the problem of learning states of low circuit complexity to learning low-temperature thermal states, while your new work reduces to learning ground states. The

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Nengkun Yu Mar 17 2023 21:07 UTC

Hi Robert,

Thank you very much for providing your insightful comments.

Thank you for mentioning the nice paper by Cambyse Rouzé and Daniel Stilck França.
With our immature understanding of this paper, their method works under the assumption of a known interaction graph. Moreover, they left t

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Hsin-Yuan Huang Mar 17 2023 15:55 UTC

I think there is a simple algorithm using shadow tomography to resolve an open question mentioned in the paper on efficient tomography of quantum states with polynomial circuit complexity. In particular, one can prove the following claim.

Given a quantum state $\lvert \psi\rangle$ generated by a qu

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Jahan Claes Mar 15 2023 19:06 UTC

Hi Tim, thanks for the response! Good to know Im not missing anything. I’ll shoot you an email if I notice anything else when I get back to working through this paper. And I’m always happy to be acknowledged in acknowledgements!

Sam Alterman Mar 11 2023 23:20 UTC

This is possibly a naive question, but how would you calculate $\partial_{\theta_i}\left\langle\Psi_{\mathrm{ref}} \vert \hat{A}_i (\theta_i) \Psi^{(m-1)}\right\rangle$ on a physical device? It doesn't seem like representing the gradient as the expectation value of a commutator as in Grimsley *et a

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Timothy Proctor Mar 09 2023 19:57 UTC

Thanks for the comments Jahan! And sorry for the slow response. You’re correct, we could replace the entire paragraph on the lower left of page 19 (which you’re quoting above) with your much more concise statement. We’ll update that when we next update the paper and, if it’s ok with you, thank you i

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Yize Sun Mar 08 2023 10:58 UTC

Thank you Simon again:D

Yize Sun Mar 08 2023 10:58 UTC

Thanks a lot, it works.

Simon Apers Mar 02 2023 08:14 UTC

What an amazing trick

Jahan Claes Mar 01 2023 19:55 UTC

Although now that I'm thinking about it a little more, I don't understand why all this is necessary. In this proposition, you're assuming $\mathbb{S}=\mathbb{S}_d$ and trying to prove the twirl has no unit-modulus eigenchannels other than the depolarizing and identity channels. Why can't you just sa

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Abhinav Deshpande Mar 01 2023 19:39 UTC

You can check on the arXiv for the email address of the person who submitted the work.

Jahan Claes Mar 01 2023 17:36 UTC

I'm having a little trouble understanding the last three sentences of the first column on page 19.

> Thus, because $\mathbb{S} = \mathbb{S}_{d}$ by assumption, the space of all superoperators preserved under conjugation by all elements of ${R}^{-1}\mathbb{G} $ contains $\mathbb{S}_d$, since we se

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Yize Sun Mar 01 2023 09:51 UTC

Dear author and editors,

I am researching quantum unitary decomposition and find this work very interesting.

Please let me know if I can have the author's email address to further discuss this work.

Here is my Email (yize.sun@campus.lmu.de) if you need it.

BR,
Yize Sun

Yupan Liu Feb 27 2023 07:12 UTC

Thanks for the clarification!

Regarding the open problem on "MA containment of guidable stoqastic LH" in Section 1.3, I do not have a quick answer yet since I need to take a close look at Def 7 in your work. However, the corresponding paragraph in Section 1.3 is not totally precise:

i) Thres

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Jordi Weggemans Feb 24 2023 16:04 UTC

Dear Yupan Liu,

Thank you for pointing out your interesting work, with which we were not familiar. We will add this as a reference in a future update of our work.

However, we believe that our classically evaluatable states (and hence our notion of classical evaluability) are conceptually dif

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Yupan Liu Feb 24 2023 03:34 UTC

Thanks for this interesting result and extending the efficient query access in terms of quantum circuits!

However, I would like to emphasize that showing MA containment of a subclass of QMA using both query access (a.k.a, "classically evaluatable") and sample access, as well as so-called "dequanti

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Korbinian Kottmann Feb 23 2023 11:31 UTC

The main claim of the paper, that by setting A=2/pi ((w, x) + b) the probability of measuring the state 1 resembles the output of a neural network with cos^2 actication function, is a tautology. By that same logic you can set A=sqrt(arccos({whatever you want})) and claim the single qubit is computin

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Guedong Park Feb 23 2023 08:58 UTC

Hi, thanks for the great result!!
But I have a small question about the implementation of random Clifford unitaries.
Your paper said random Clifford unitaries (with $\epsilon$-error) can be achieved by single-qubit random Cliffords in the first section and random neighboring 2-qubit Clifford unitar

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Jiacong Feb 22 2023 12:36 UTC

Hello,

Thanks for the interesting paper.

I'm more curious about the section about the model for AIMC (ReRAM) and digital MACs.

In the paper, the value for each parameter is collected from several papers (as in Table IV). But I think the value will change if a different paper is chosen. Can

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Wojciech Kryszak Feb 16 2023 21:24 UTC

Hello,

>[...] “in this universe, the extent of diverse
and complex things is increasing over time.” There are
undoubtedly many people who have already come to this
idea.

And one of them is also (or maybe even foremost) Julian Barbour. I would love to see some day how your general definition

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Jake Xuereb Feb 11 2023 15:27 UTC

Fascinating work! Would be interesting to see comparisons or discussions around how this works fits in with thermodynamic capacity of quantum channels a la Faist, Berta, Brandao.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05610

Joshua Ramette Feb 03 2023 21:37 UTC

Hey Jahan, thanks for the pointer, we’ll plan to add that one to our citation list. As you say, this one, like another one preceding it we cite ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.4074.pdf ) point out that you can have 10% interface error if the bulk error is substantially below threshold (0 to 0.1% errors

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Jahan Claes Feb 03 2023 15:22 UTC

You might want to compare to https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07796, which analyzes a very similar setup but does not appear in your citations.

It's worth noting that this earlier paper used a fairly convoluted scheme to do error correction across the modules, which I never really understand the motiva

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Mark M. Wilde Feb 02 2023 10:31 UTC

This appears to be a major development for quantum rate-distortion theory.

Alexander Cowtan Feb 01 2023 14:40 UTC

Hi all,

It has been kindly pointed out to us that the proof of Lemma 5.13 has an error in it, and one cannot lower bound the code distance of a merged code in all generality -- we would require extra conditions to do so.

We will amend this in a future version (along with the header formatting!

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Jake Xuereb Jan 30 2023 13:33 UTC

Just spotted this video abstract - what a great idea! Excellent way to communicate the essence of your work.