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How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups? — mentioned by pred_

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:23:45 GMT

Normally, where I come from anyway, verifiability would refer to the ability to prove to a classical skeptic that the quantum device did what it's supposed to, cf. e.g. Mahadev (https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01082), Aaronson (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06930), in a strong, theoretical, sense. And that's indeed relevant in the context of proving advantage, as the earlier RCS experiments lacked that ability, so “demonstrating verifiable quantum advantage” would be quite the step forward. That doesn't appear to be what they did at all though. Indeed, the paper appears to barely touch on…

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How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups? — mentioned by civilized

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:42:53 GMT

We don't. Here's a survey paper from quantum computing expert Scott Aaronson, posted to arXiv just a couple months ago: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06930.pdf From the abstract: > I survey, for a general scientific audience, three decades of research into which sorts of problems admit exponential speedups via quantum computers -- from the classics (like the algorithms of Simon and Shor), to the breakthrough of Yamakawa and Zhandry from April 2022. [...] I make some skeptical remarks about widely-repeated claims of exponential quantum speedups for practical machine learning and optimization…

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How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups? — mentioned by hackandthink

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 10:52:59 GMT

Popular Science Background: "Quantum mechanics’ most important resource" (Entangled quantum states) From a Quantum Computing perspective entanglement ist kind of overrated. Scott Aaronson: How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06930.pdf Actually entanglement is not mentioned at all.

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How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups? — HN submission

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:55:56 GMT

How Much Structure Is Needed for Quantum Speedups?

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