arXiv Machine Learning

Local-Time Riemannian Score Matching on the Quantum Pure-State Manifold

arXiv:2605. 03573v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Score-based diffusion can be defined intrinsically on the manifold of quantum pure states, $\mathbb{CP}^{d-1}$ with the Fubini--Study metric, but no closed-form transition density is available, so the score must be supervised by a local-time teacher taken from the Euclidean limit of the diffusion in normal coordinates.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Stochastic Schr\"odinger Diffusion Models for Pure-State Ensemble Generation

arXiv:2605. 03573v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum machine learning increasingly relies on pure-state representations, motivating generative models that sample directly in quantum representation space rather than perturbing classical inputs and re-encoding.

By Jian Xu, Wei Chen, Shigui Li, Chao Li, Jingyuan Zheng, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Projected Riemannian Gradient Descent for the Bures-Wasserstein Barycenter: Dimension-Independent Linear Convergence at Unit Step Size

The paper introduces a Projected Riemannian Gradient Descent (RGD) algorithm for computing the Bures‑Wasserstein barycenter of positive definite matrices, achieving dimension‑independent linear convergence at unit step size. It resolves a previous dichotomy by showing that clipping eigenvalues to a fixed interval yields a closed‑form, non‑expansive projection in the BW metric, allowing the algorithm to match the empirical speed of unit‑step RGD while maintaining theoretical guarantees. The method also extends to the invariant matrix projection problem, providing a unified dimension‑independent analysis.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Quantum score matching with applications to learning thermal states

The paper introduces a quantum score‑matching framework that extends classical score matching to quantum states, addressing challenges posed by noncommuting density operators. It demonstrates that this method can learn thermal (Gibbs) states without extra state preparation, achieving optimal sample complexity in high‑temperature regimes for local Hamiltonians. Numerical tests and experiments on IBM quantum hardware confirm the approach’s effectiveness and NISQ‑friendly performance, reducing Hamiltonian‑parameter error from 64% to about 10%.

By Yulong Dong, Jiaqi Leng
arXiv AI
Jun 8

A Temporal Spatial Minimax Rate for Smoothly-Varying Distributions in Wasserstein Space

arXiv:2606. 07325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the minimax rate of estimating a future value $\mu_{t_n+h}$ of a curve $t\mapsto\mu_t$ in the $2$-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ from finitely many noisy snapshots of its past, under an adiabatic bound $\|\nabla_t^k v\|\le\varepsilon$ on the $k$-th covariant derivative of the velocity field.

By Munsik Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Any-OPD: Heterogeneous On-Policy Distillation for Flow-Matching Models via Representation-Space Bridging

arXiv:2608. 03316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation, in which a teacher corrects samples that the student itself generates, presupposes that the two models speak the same language: identical VAE latents, matching architectures, and a common timestep grid.

By Siming Fu, Zheming Fu, Ruizhe He, Hualiang Wang, Jie Huang, Xiaoxiao Ma, Mingchen Zhong, Weihu Huang, Xiaoxuan He, Haojun Xu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 5

Asymptotic-Preserving A Posteriori Analysis of Diffusion and Flow-Matching Samplers

Diffusion and flow-matching samplers integrate a learned probability-flow ODE from a large noise scale down to a small terminal floor $σ_{\min}$, at which the score is stiff and the flow develops a boundary layer. We treat $σ_{\min}$ as a singular-perturbation parameter and determine which fixed-step samplers are asymptotic-preserving (AP), that is, stable and uniformly accurate as $σ_{\min}\to0$, casting the criteria as an a posteriori audit: residual functionals with $σ_{\min}$-uniform coefficients, computable on a pretrained checkpoint without ground-truth scores or exact trajectories.