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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.64

Improved Quantum Boosting

Authors: Adam Izdebski and Ronald de Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 274, 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)

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Boosting is a general method to convert a weak learner (which generates hypotheses that are just slightly better than random) into a strong learner (which generates hypotheses that are much better than random). Recently, Arunachalam and Maity [Srinivasan Arunachalam and Reevu Maity, 2020] gave the first quantum improvement for boosting, by combining Freund and Schapire’s AdaBoost algorithm with a quantum algorithm for approximate counting. Their booster is faster than classical boosting as a function of the VC-dimension of the weak learner’s hypothesis class, but worse as a function of the quality of the weak learner. In this paper we give a substantially faster and simpler quantum boosting algorithm, based on Servedio’s SmoothBoost algorithm [Servedio, 2003].

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Adam Izdebski and Ronald de Wolf. Improved Quantum Boosting. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 64:1-64:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{izdebski_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.64,
  author =	{Izdebski, Adam and de Wolf, Ronald},
  title =	{{Improved Quantum Boosting}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
  pages =	{64:1--64:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-295-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{274},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.64},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187178},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.64},
  annote =	{Keywords: Learning theory, Boosting algorithms, Quantum computing}
}

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