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New research details NP-hard challenges in MPO Born Machine approximation

A new paper published on arXiv explores the theoretical approximation capabilities of Matrix Product Operator (MPO) Born Machines, a type of tensor-network model used for probabilistic modeling. The research presents a negative result, proving that approximating an arbitrary continuous target with bounded KL error using polynomial-bond MPO-BMs is an NP-hard problem. However, the paper also offers a positive finding: for score-based variational inference, targets satisfying a log-Sobolev inequality can be approximated with provable KL guarantees under specific conditions related to the loss-induced Hamiltonian. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Chao Li, Zerui Tao, Yuchen Cong, Jian Xu, Qibin Zhao ·

    On the Approximation Complexity of Matrix Product Operator (MPO) Born Machines

    arXiv:2605.11471v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Matrix product operator Born machines (MPO-BMs) are tractable tensor-network models for probabilistic modeling, yet their approximation capabilities remain poorly understood in theory. In this paper, we characterize these capabi…