Quantum algorithms for testing properties of distributions

Sergey Bravyi; Aram W. Harrow; Avinatan Hassidim

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2011.2134250

Quantum algorithms for testing properties of distributions

Sergey Bravyi, Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim

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Abstract

Suppose one has access to oracles generating samples from two unknown probability distributions p and q on some n -element set. How many samples does one need to test whether the two distributions are close or far from each other in the L₁-norm? This and related questions have been extensively studied during the last years in the field of property testing. In the present paper we study quantum algorithms for testing properties of distributions. It is shown that the L₁-distance ∥ p-q ∥₁ can be estimated with a constant precision using only O(N^1/2) queries in the quantum settings, whereas classical computers need Ω(N^1-o(1)) queries. We also describe quantum algorithms for testing uniformity and orthogonality with query complexity O(N^1/3). The classical query complexity of these problems is known to be Ω(N^1/2).

Original language	English
Article number	5773032
Pages (from-to)	3971-3981
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume	57
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2011.2134250
State	Published - Jun 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Property testing
quantum information
query complexity
sampling
statistical distance

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Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Library and Information Sciences

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