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The Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm applied to random optimization problems: the quantum spin glass perspective
Among various algorithms designed to exploit the specific properties of
quantum computers with respect to classical ones, the quantum adiabatic
algorithm is a versatile proposition to find the minimal value of an arbitrary
cost function (ground state energy). Random optimization problems provide a
natural testbed to compare its efficiency with that of classical algorithms.
These problems correspond to mean field spin glasses that have been extensively
studied in the classical case. This paper reviews recent analytical works that
extended these studies to incorporate the effect of quantum fluctuations, and
presents also some original results in this direction.Comment: 151 pages, 21 figure
Changepoint Detection over Graphs with the Spectral Scan Statistic
We consider the change-point detection problem of deciding, based on noisy
measurements, whether an unknown signal over a given graph is constant or is
instead piecewise constant over two connected induced subgraphs of relatively
low cut size. We analyze the corresponding generalized likelihood ratio (GLR)
statistics and relate it to the problem of finding a sparsest cut in a graph.
We develop a tractable relaxation of the GLR statistic based on the
combinatorial Laplacian of the graph, which we call the spectral scan
statistic, and analyze its properties. We show how its performance as a testing
procedure depends directly on the spectrum of the graph, and use this result to
explicitly derive its asymptotic properties on few significant graph
topologies. Finally, we demonstrate both theoretically and by simulations that
the spectral scan statistic can outperform naive testing procedures based on
edge thresholding and testing
Sampling and Reconstruction of Graph Signals via Weak Submodularity and Semidefinite Relaxation
We study the problem of sampling a bandlimited graph signal in the presence
of noise, where the objective is to select a node subset of prescribed
cardinality that minimizes the signal reconstruction mean squared error (MSE).
To that end, we formulate the task at hand as the minimization of MSE subject
to binary constraints, and approximate the resulting NP-hard problem via
semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation. Moreover, we provide an alternative
formulation based on maximizing a monotone weak submodular function and propose
a randomized-greedy algorithm to find a sub-optimal subset. We then derive a
worst-case performance guarantee on the MSE returned by the randomized greedy
algorithm for general non-stationary graph signals. The efficacy of the
proposed methods is illustrated through numerical simulations on synthetic and
real-world graphs. Notably, the randomized greedy algorithm yields an
order-of-magnitude speedup over state-of-the-art greedy sampling schemes, while
incurring only a marginal MSE performance loss
Complexity Theory, Game Theory, and Economics: The Barbados Lectures
This document collects the lecture notes from my mini-course "Complexity
Theory, Game Theory, and Economics," taught at the Bellairs Research Institute
of McGill University, Holetown, Barbados, February 19--23, 2017, as the 29th
McGill Invitational Workshop on Computational Complexity.
The goal of this mini-course is twofold: (i) to explain how complexity theory
has helped illuminate several barriers in economics and game theory; and (ii)
to illustrate how game-theoretic questions have led to new and interesting
complexity theory, including recent several breakthroughs. It consists of two
five-lecture sequences: the Solar Lectures, focusing on the communication and
computational complexity of computing equilibria; and the Lunar Lectures,
focusing on applications of complexity theory in game theory and economics. No
background in game theory is assumed.Comment: Revised v2 from December 2019 corrects some errors in and adds some
recent citations to v1 Revised v3 corrects a few typos in v
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