On learning finite-state quantum sources

  • Authors:
  • Brendan Juba

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Harvard SEAS

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We examine the complexity of learning the distributions produced by finite-state quantum sources. We show how prior techniques for learning hidden Markov models can be adapted to the quantum generator model to find that the analogous state of affairs holds: information-theoretically, a polynomial number of samples suffice to approximately identify the distribution, but computationally, the problem is as hard as learning parities with noise, a notorious open question in computational learning theory.