Lecture
LIACS Research Seminar - nr 2
- Date
- Friday 2 February 2024
- Time
- Address
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Snellius
Niels Bohrweg 1
2333 CA Leiden - Room
- 413
The LIACS Research Seminar, a new monthly seminar series "for-and-by" LIACS researchers, where both speakers and audience are from LIACS. The goal is to provide a platform for the research clusters within LIACS to present our research to each other.
The speaker this time will be Vedran Dunjko on Friday 2 Feb at noon
Note: also if the topic is not directly related to your research, please do come! Because such a seminar is an opportunity to learn from each other, about the research highlights within LIACS.
Title: Can quantum computers really offer advantages in machine learning?
Abstract: Quantum computing is sometimes overhyped... and in my view, sometimes *under*hyped. While the broad public is bombarded with unrealistic claims of what quantum computing can offer, much of the research community is quite conservative, accepting only hard-to-find fully formal proofs as evidence of their utility. In this talk I will present some results on advantages quantum computers can offer, both from the pessimistic and optimistic lens, in hopes of striking a realistic middle. The talk will be honed towards a computer science audience.