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Jacob Watkins

dblp:371/1994 · DBLP profile ↗
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 60% Quantum computing and quantum information · 40%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization
convex optimization
0.912025
Fast Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods · NeurIPS 2025
Quantum computing and quantum information
quantum algorithms
0.912025
Fast Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods · NeurIPS 2025
Quantum computing and quantum information › quantum algorithms
quantum semidefinite programming
0.912025
Fast Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods · NeurIPS 2025
Mathematical optimization
semidefinite programming
0.912025
Fast Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods · NeurIPS 2025
Mathematical optimization › black-box optimization
zeroth-order optimization
0.912025
Fast Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

mirror prox · 0.9mirror descent · 0.9dual averaging · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Fast Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods
abstract
We study quantum algorithms based on quantum (sub)gradient estimation using noisy function evaluation oracles, and demonstrate the first dimension-independent query complexities (up to poly-logarithmic factors) for zeroth-order convex optimization in both smooth and nonsmooth settings. Interestingly, only using noisy function evaluation oracles, we match the first-order query complexities of classical gradient descent, thereby exhibiting exponential separation between quantum and classical zeroth-order optimization. We then generalize these algorithms to work in non-Euclidean settings by using quantum (sub)gradient estimation to instantiate mirror descent and its variants, including dual averaging and mirror prox. By leveraging a connection between semidefinite programming and eigenvalue optimization, we use our quantum mirror descent method to give a new quantum algorithm for solving semidefinite programs, linear programs, and zero-sum games. We identify a parameter regime in which our zero-sum games algorithm is faster than any existing classical or quantum approach.
Junhyung Lyle Kim, Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Enrico Fontana, Jacob Watkins, Marco Pistoia, Shouvanik Chakrabarti
NeurIPS5