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SUMMARY:Talk by Prof. Aram Harrow from MIT on Quantum Algorithms for Machi
 ne Learning
DTSTART:20191024T131500
DTEND:20191024T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001244Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Aram Harrow (MIT)\nThe EPFL Quantum Computing Associatio
 n is excited to invite you to the talk of Prof. Aram Harrow from MIT!\n\nT
 itle: Hybrid Classical-Quantum Algorithms for Optimization and Inference\n
 Quantum Computers are known to have strengths in cryptography and quantum 
 simulations\, but what about Machine Learning? This would be a valuable ap
 plication\, but there are difficulties: small Quantum Computers must handl
 e large data sets and the existing classical algorithms are already quite 
 sophisticated. To address these challenges\, Prof. Harrow will describe ho
 w hybrid classical-quantum algorithms can best exploit the strengths of bo
 th types of computers. \n\nAbout the speaker: Aram Harrow is an Associat
 e Professor of Physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cent
 er for Theoretical Physics. Harrow works in quantum information science a
 nd quantum computing. Together with Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd\, he
  designed a quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations (the HHL alg
 orithm)\, which in some cases exhibits an exponential advantage over the b
 est classical algorithms. The algorithm has wide application in quantum m
 achine learning. He is a steering committee member of Quantum Information
  Processing (QIP)\, the largest annual conference in the field of quantum
  computing. Harrow is a co-administrator of SciRate\, a free and open acc
 ess scientific collaboration network. He also co-runs a blog\, The Quantum
  Pontiff. His collaborators include Peter Shor and Charles H. Bennett.
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