首次在量子学习中建立信息-计算鸿沟,揭示高效算法的理论极限。
Information-Computation Gaps in Quantum Learning via Low-Degree Likelihood
- 将经典低阶方法拓展至量子场景,构建理论框架分析学习难易度。
- 证明随机稀疏哈密顿量吉布斯态学习存在计算难题,且需局部测量时更难。
- 适用于量子纠错缓解、稳定子学习等场景,适合量子算法研究者。
在多种与物理相关的量子数据学习场景中,设计能高效提取信息的协议仍属艺术性挑战,某些情况下甚至可能根本不可能,即存在信息-计算鸿沟。尽管经典文献中有大量工具可为统计推断问题的平均情况难解性提供证据,但量子领域的对应工具仍极为有限。其中一种经典框架——低阶方法,通过低阶多项式估计器的失败来预测推断难题。本文将该框架推广至量子设置,建立状态设计与低阶硬性之间的通用联系。利用该框架,首次获得关于随机稀疏非局域哈密顿量吉布斯态学习的信息-计算鸿沟;同时证明在自适应基测量的挑战模型下,随机浅层量子电路态学习亦具硬性。据我们所知,该框架内建自适应性的能力在经典领域也尚属开放问题。此外,还获得了针对单比特测量策略的量子误差缓解低阶硬性结果。定义了新的量子植入双团问题,并识别出仅依赖局部测量时计算困难的阈值。有趣的是,当从局部测量转向更具纠缠性的单拷贝测量时,其复杂性格局发生变化。本文还证明了‘标准’带噪声稳定子学习和拟议产品态学习的平均情况难解性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In a variety of physically relevant settings for learning from quantum data, designing protocols that can computationally efficiently extract information remains largely an art, and there are important cases where we believe this to be impossible, that is, where there is an information-computation gap. While there is a large array of tools in the classical literature for giving evidence for average-case hardness of statistical inference problems, the corresponding tools in the quantum literature are far more limited. One such framework in the classical literature, the low-degree method, makes predictions about hardness of inference problems based on the failure of estimators given by low-degree polynomials. In this work, we extend this framework to the quantum setting. We establish a general connection between state designs and low-degree hardness. We use this to obtain the first information-computation gaps for learning Gibbs states of random, sparse, non-local Hamiltonians. We also use it to prove hardness for learning random shallow quantum circuit states in a challenging model where states can be measured in adaptively chosen bases. To our knowledge, the ability to model adaptivity within the low-degree framework was open even in classical settings. In addition, we also obtain a low-degree hardness result for quantum error mitigation against strategies with single-qubit measurements. We define a new quantum generalization of the planted biclique problem and identify the threshold at which this problem becomes computationally hard for protocols that perform local measurements. Interestingly, the complexity landscape for this problem shifts when going from local measurements to more entangled single-copy measurements. We show average-case hardness for the "standard" variant of Learning Stabilizers with Noise and for agnostically learning product states.
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