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Quantum-enhanced reinforcement learning for finite-episode games with discrete state spaces
Quantum annealing algorithms belong to the class of metaheuristic tools,
applicable for solving binary optimization problems. Hardware implementations
of quantum annealing, such as the quantum annealing machines produced by D-Wave
Systems, have been subject to multiple analyses in research, with the aim of
characterizing the technology's usefulness for optimization and sampling tasks.
Here, we present a way to partially embed both Monte Carlo policy iteration for
finding an optimal policy on random observations, as well as how to embed (n)
sub-optimal state-value functions for approximating an improved state-value
function given a policy for finite horizon games with discrete state spaces on
a D-Wave 2000Q quantum processing unit (QPU). We explain how both problems can
be expressed as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem,
and show that quantum-enhanced Monte Carlo policy evaluation allows for finding
equivalent or better state-value functions for a given policy with the same
number episodes compared to a purely classical Monte Carlo algorithm.
Additionally, we describe a quantum-classical policy learning algorithm. Our
first and foremost aim is to explain how to represent and solve parts of these
problems with the help of the QPU, and not to prove supremacy over every
existing classical policy evaluation algorithm.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure
Local matching indicators for transport problems with concave costs
In this paper, we introduce a class of indicators that enable to compute
efficiently optimal transport plans associated to arbitrary distributions of N
demands and M supplies in R in the case where the cost function is concave. The
computational cost of these indicators is small and independent of N. A
hierarchical use of them enables to obtain an efficient algorithm
Optimal Row-Column Designs for Correlated Errors and Nested Row-Column Designs for Uncorrelated Errors
In this dissertation the design problems are considered in the row-column setting for second order autonormal errors when the treatment effects are estimated by generalized least squares, and in the nested row-column setting for uncorrelated errors when the treatment effects are estimated by ordinary least squares. In the former case, universal optimality conditions are derived separately for designs in the plane and on the torus using more general linear models than those considered elsewhere in the literature. Examples of universally optimum planar designs are given, and a method is developed for the construction of optimum and near optimum designs, that produces several infinite series of universally optimum designs on the torus and near optimum designs in the plane. Efficiencies are calculated for planar versions of the torus designs, which are found to be highly efficient with respect to some commonly used optimality criterion. In the nested row-column setting, several methods of construction of balanced and partially balanced incomplete block designs with nested rows and columns are developed, from which many infinite series of designs are obtained. In particular, 149 balanced incomplete block designs with nested rows and columns are listed (80 appear to be new) for the number of treatments, v \u3c 101, a prime power
Cophenetic metrics for phylogenetic trees, after Sokal and Rohlf
Phylogenetic tree comparison metrics are an important tool in the study of
evolution, and hence the definition of such metrics is an interesting problem
in phylogenetics. In a paper in Taxon fifty years ago, Sokal and Rohlf proposed
to measure quantitatively the difference between a pair of phylogenetic trees
by first encoding them by means of their half-matrices of cophenetic values,
and then comparing these matrices. This idea has been used several times since
then to define dissimilarity measures between phylogenetic trees but, to our
knowledge, no proper metric on weighted phylogenetic trees with nested taxa
based on this idea has been formally defined and studied yet. Actually, the
cophenetic values of pairs of different taxa alone are not enough to single out
phylogenetic trees with weighted arcs or nested taxa. In this paper we define a
family of cophenetic metrics that compare phylogenetic trees on a same set of
taxa by encoding them by means of their vectors of cophenetic values of pairs
of taxa and depths of single taxa, and then computing the norm of the
difference of the corresponding vectors. Then, we study, either analytically or
numerically, some of their basic properties: neighbors, diameter, distribution,
and their rank correlation with each other and with other metrics.Comment: The "authors' cut" of a paper published in BMC Bioinformatics 14:3
(2013). 46 page
Quantum Algorithms for Finding Constant-sized Sub-hypergraphs
We develop a general framework to construct quantum algorithms that detect if
a -uniform hypergraph given as input contains a sub-hypergraph isomorphic to
a prespecified constant-sized hypergraph. This framework is based on the
concept of nested quantum walks recently proposed by Jeffery, Kothari and
Magniez [SODA'13], and extends the methodology designed by Lee, Magniez and
Santha [SODA'13] for similar problems over graphs. As applications, we obtain a
quantum algorithm for finding a -clique in a -uniform hypergraph on
vertices with query complexity , and a quantum algorithm for
determining if a ternary operator over a set of size is associative with
query complexity .Comment: 18 pages; v2: changed title, added more backgrounds to the
introduction, added another applicatio
Quartic Curves and Their Bitangents
A smooth quartic curve in the complex projective plane has 36 inequivalent
representations as a symmetric determinant of linear forms and 63
representations as a sum of three squares. These correspond to Cayley octads
and Steiner complexes respectively. We present exact algorithms for computing
these objects from the 28 bitangents. This expresses Vinnikov quartics as
spectrahedra and positive quartics as Gram matrices. We explore the geometry of
Gram spectrahedra and we find equations for the variety of Cayley octads.
Interwoven is an exposition of much of the 19th century theory of plane
quartics.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figures, added references, fixed theorems 4.3 and 7.8,
other minor change
Planar diagrams from optimization
We propose a new toy model of a heteropolymer chain capable of forming planar
secondary structures typical for RNA molecules. In this model the sequential
intervals between neighboring monomers along a chain are considered as quenched
random variables. Using the optimization procedure for a special class of
concave--type potentials, borrowed from optimal transport analysis, we derive
the local difference equation for the ground state free energy of the chain
with the planar (RNA--like) architecture of paired links. We consider various
distribution functions of intervals between neighboring monomers (truncated
Gaussian and scale--free) and demonstrate the existence of a topological
crossover from sequential to essentially embedded (nested) configurations of
paired links.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, the proof is added. arXiv admin note: text
overlap with arXiv:1102.155
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