Separating quantum circuits from classical LLMs
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arXiv:2608.03962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and generation. We prove unconditional separations between low-depth quantum computation and the corresponding bounded-resource classical language-model architectures in both regimes. Concretely, we exhibit the following: 1. Distributional separation. We give a distribution that is sampleable by $\textsf{QNC}^0$ circuits (i.e., a family of constant-depth quantum circuits consisting of bounded fan-in gates) tha
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.03962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and generation.
- We prove unconditional separations between low-depth quantum computation and the corresponding bounded-resource classical language-model architectures in both regimes.
- Concretely, we exhibit the following: 1.
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