Jarrod McLean - Google Quantum AI

Wednesday 24 Sept 2025, 08:00 → 19:15 US/Eastern

IAMM

 

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08:30 → 09:00 Pick up at hotel

Travel to IAMM.

09:00 → 10:00 Research Meeting

10:00 → 10:20 Talk Prep

10:20 → 11:20 Understanding the role of data and learning through a quantum lens

Abstract - As quantum technology continues to rapidly advance, it is interesting to stop and ask what it has already taught us about how we do science. If we believe both that quantum computers may be able to do some computations exponentially faster than their classical counterparts and that we live in a quantum world, then our ability to learn from observational data as scientists may fundamentally change what we can do. I will first review some recent results in quantum machine learning that allow us to put ideas about learning from the physical world on a rigorous footing and show that quantum computers, and more specifically quantum memory, offer us an opportunity to learn from a quantum world with exponentially less data than traditional experiments. More recently, we have come to understand opportunities for advantage outside of just time complexity and consider what this means for the role of classical data in quantum learning. The connection of this work to new ways to learn quantum circuits could prove fruitful in understanding the role of quantum computers learning hard distributions in generative learning.

11:30 → 12:00 Research Meeting

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

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17:45 → 19:15 Dinner