Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: Search-base algorithms have widespread applications in different scenarios. Grover's quantum search algorithms and its generalization, amplitude amplification, provide a quadratic speedup over classical search algorithms for unstructured search. We consider the problem of searching with prior knowledge. More preciously, search for the solution among N items with a prior probability distribution. This letter proposes a new generalization of Grover's search algorithm which performs better than the standard Grover algorithm in average under this setting. We prove that our new algorithm achieves the optimal expected success probability of finding the solution if the number of queries is fixed.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: He, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Jialin, Sun, Xiaoming
Institution: Institute of Computing Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3087574760