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Wilfred Salmon
dblp:361/2485
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Quantum computing and quantum information · 50% Computational complexity · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Quantum computing and quantum information
quantum learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Provable Advantage in Quantum PAC Learning · COLT 2024 |
Computational complexity › learning theory
sample complexity |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Provable Advantage in Quantum PAC Learning · COLT 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
lower bound arguments · 0.8VC dimension · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Provable Advantage in Quantum PAC LearningabstractWe revisit the problem of characterising the complexity of Quantum PAC learning, as introduced by Bshouty and Jackson [SIAM J. Comput. 1998, 28, 1136–1153]. Several quantum advantages have been demonstrated in this setting, however, none are generic: they apply to particular concept classes and typically only work when the distribution that generates the data is known. In the general case, it was recently shown by Arunachalam and de Wolf [JMLR, 19 (2018) 1-36] that quantum PAC learners can only achieve constant factor advantages over classical PAC learners. We show that with a natural extension of the definition of quantum PAC learning used by Arunachalam and de Wolf, we can achieve a generic advantage in quantum learning. To be precise, for any concept class $\mathcal{C}$ of VC dimension $d$, we show there is an $(\epsilon, \delta)$-quantum PAC learner with sample complexity \[{O}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{\epsilon}}\left[d+ \log(\frac{1}{\delta})\right]\log^9(1/\epsilon)\right). \]{Up} to polylogarithmic factors, this is a square root improvement over the classical learning sample complexity. We show the tightness of our result by proving an $\Omega(d/\sqrt{\epsilon})$ lower bound that matches our upper bound up to polylogarithmic factors. Wilfred Salmon, Sergii Strelchuk, Tom Gur |
COLT | 1 |