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Quantum Model Averaging
Standard tomographic analyses ignore model uncertainty. It is assumed that a
given model generated the data and the task is to estimate the quantum state,
or a subset of parameters within that model. Here we apply a model averaging
technique to mitigate the risk of overconfident estimates of model parameters
in two examples: (1) selecting the rank of the state in tomography and (2)
selecting the model for the fidelity decay curve in randomized benchmarking.Comment: For a summary, see http://i.imgur.com/nMJxANo.pn
Discriminative Features via Generalized Eigenvectors
Representing examples in a way that is compatible with the underlying
classifier can greatly enhance the performance of a learning system. In this
paper we investigate scalable techniques for inducing discriminative features
by taking advantage of simple second order structure in the data. We focus on
multiclass classification and show that features extracted from the generalized
eigenvectors of the class conditional second moments lead to classifiers with
excellent empirical performance. Moreover, these features have attractive
theoretical properties, such as inducing representations that are invariant to
linear transformations of the input. We evaluate classifiers built from these
features on three different tasks, obtaining state of the art results
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