Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: In this paper, we study the relationship between advice in the form of a training set and classical advice. We do this by analyzing the class $\mathsf{BPP/samp}$ and certain variants of it. Specifically, our main result demonstrates that $\mathsf{BPP/samp}$ is a proper subset of the class $\mathsf{P/poly}$, which implies that advice in the form of a training set is strictly weaker than classical advice. This result remains valid when considering quantum advice and a quantum generalization of the training set. Finally, leveraging the insights from our proofs, we identify both sufficient and necessary complexity-theoretic assumptions for the existence of concept classes that exhibit a quantum learning speed-up. We consider both the worst-case setting, where accurate results are required for all inputs, and the average-case setting.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Pérez-Guijarro, Jordi
Institution: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402701794