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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Friday, November 8, 2019
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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East Bridge 114
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
András Gilyen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,

Abstract: We construct an efficient classical analogue of the quantum matrix inversion algorithm (HHL) for low-rank matrices. Inspired by recent work of Tang, assuming sampling access to input data, we implement the pseudoinverse of a low-rank matrix and sample from the solution to the problem Ax=b using fast sampling techniques. We implement the pseudo-inverse by finding an approximate singular value decomposition of A via subsampling, then inverting the singular values. In principle, the approach can also be used to apply any desired "smooth" function to the singular values. Since many quantum algorithms can be expressed as a singular value transformation problem, our results also imply that most low-rank quantum machine-learning algorithms can be effectively "dequantised" into classical sampling algorithms.

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