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Quantum Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions for All Linear Problems

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Authors

Asadi, VR 
Golovnev, A 
Shinkar, I 
Subramanian, S 

Abstract

We study the problem of designing worst-case to average-case reductions for quantum algo- rithms. For all linear problems, we provide an explicit and efficient transformation of quantum algorithms that are only correct on a small (even sub-constant) fraction of their inputs into ones that are correct on all inputs. This stands in contrast to the classical setting, where such results are only known for a small number of specific problems or restricted computational models. En route, we obtain a tight Ω(n2) lower bound on the average-case quantum query complexity of the Matrix-Vector Multiplication problem. Our techniques strengthen and generalise the recently introduced additive combinatorics framework for classical worst-case to average-case reductions (STOC 2022) to the quantum setting. We rely on quantum singular value transformations to construct quantum algorithms for linear verification in superposition and learning Bogolyubov subspaces from noisy quantum oracles. We use these tools to prove a quantum local correction lemma, which lies at the heart of our reductions, based on a noise-robust probabilistic generalisation of Bogolyubov’s lemma from additive combinatorics.

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Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

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ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA24)

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2024-January

Publisher

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Sponsorship
UK Research and Innovation (MR/S031545/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/X018180/1)
MRC (MR/S031545/2)
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/S031545/1, EPSRC New Horizons Grant EP/X018180/1, EPSRC Robust and Reliable Quantum Computing Grant EP/W032635/1