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Main Authors: Liu, Chenghua, Ji, Zhengfeng
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24757
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author Liu, Chenghua
Ji, Zhengfeng
author_facet Liu, Chenghua
Ji, Zhengfeng
contents Regression is a cornerstone of statistics and machine learning, with applications spanning science, engineering, and economics. While quantum algorithms for regression have attracted considerable attention, most existing work has focused on linear regression, leaving many more complex yet practically important variants unexplored. In this work, we present a unified quantum framework for accelerating a broad class of regression tasks -- including linear and multiple regression, Lasso, Ridge, Huber, $\ell_p$-, and $δ_p$-type regressions -- achieving up to a quadratic improvement in the number of samples $m$ over the best classical algorithms. This speedup is achieved by extending the recent classical breakthrough of Jambulapati et al. (STOC'24) using several quantum techniques, including quantum leverage score approximation (Apers &Gribling, 2024) and the preparation of many copies of a quantum state (Hamoudi, 2022). For problems of dimension $n$, sparsity $r < n$, and error parameter $ε$, our algorithm solves the problem in $\widetilde{O}(r\sqrt{mn}/ε+ \mathrm{poly}(n,1/ε))$ quantum time, demonstrating both the applicability and the efficiency of quantum computing in accelerating regression tasks.
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spellingShingle Accelerating Regression Tasks with Quantum Algorithms
Liu, Chenghua
Ji, Zhengfeng
Quantum Physics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Regression is a cornerstone of statistics and machine learning, with applications spanning science, engineering, and economics. While quantum algorithms for regression have attracted considerable attention, most existing work has focused on linear regression, leaving many more complex yet practically important variants unexplored. In this work, we present a unified quantum framework for accelerating a broad class of regression tasks -- including linear and multiple regression, Lasso, Ridge, Huber, $\ell_p$-, and $δ_p$-type regressions -- achieving up to a quadratic improvement in the number of samples $m$ over the best classical algorithms. This speedup is achieved by extending the recent classical breakthrough of Jambulapati et al. (STOC'24) using several quantum techniques, including quantum leverage score approximation (Apers &Gribling, 2024) and the preparation of many copies of a quantum state (Hamoudi, 2022). For problems of dimension $n$, sparsity $r < n$, and error parameter $ε$, our algorithm solves the problem in $\widetilde{O}(r\sqrt{mn}/ε+ \mathrm{poly}(n,1/ε))$ quantum time, demonstrating both the applicability and the efficiency of quantum computing in accelerating regression tasks.
title Accelerating Regression Tasks with Quantum Algorithms
topic Quantum Physics
Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24757