NTT-MIT-Harvard Workshop: Concepts in robust physical computation
September 30, 2022
Allen Room (36-462) and Haus Rooms (36-428) MIT, Boston, MA
Organizers: Sho Sugiura, Sina Zeytinoglu, Hidenori Tanaka, Gautam Reddy, and Ryan Hamerly
Scientific Background
Independent of the underlying substrate, computation relies on physical structures that are robust against errors. These error-robust structures arise from nonlinear dynamics that distinguish between processes that are relevant and irrelevant for the computation. In the Post-Moore era, we can no longer rely on the error-robustness of microelectronic information processing elements that approximate a digital abstraction of the underlying physical system. The question of error-robustness is central to the feasibility of all analog computing approaches, such as those based on neuromorphic, optical, and quantum systems. In this one-day workshop, we aim at bringing theorists and experimentalists from quantum computing, machine learning, and brain science to develop a broad and comparative understanding of strategies that physical computing systems utilize to reduce the effects of errors in computation.
Aims
The goal of this workshop is to facilitate a formation of an interdisciplinary community of researchers in the cambridge area working at the interface of physics and computation. We promote discussions through a series of short talks and in-depth round table discussions during break out sessions.
Participants
- Jefferey Grover (MIT RLE)
- William Oliver(MIT RLE)
- Gautam Reddy (NTT-Harvard)
- Sho Sugiura (NTT-MIT)
- Hidenori Tanaka (NTT-Harvard)
- Troy Van Voorhis (MIT Chemistry)
- Sina Zeytinoğlu (NTT-Harvard)
Schedule
| 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | Opening Remarks - Yoshihisa Yamamoto |
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| 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM | Short Talks 1 (4 talks of 10 min P + 5 min Q) 9:20- Large-Scale Photonics for Post-Moore Computing - Dirk Englund 9:35- Quantum Computation with Superconducting Circuits - Jeffrey Grover 9:50- At the Nexus of ML, Hardware, and Networking - Manya Ghobadi 10:05- Error-correction and the sense of smell - Gautam Reddy |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Breakout Session 1 (round table discussions) Biological challenges in the quantum context (Gautam Reddy w Dirk Englund and Jeffrey Grover) @ 36-462 Error correction in ML/Biological systems (Hidenori Tanaka w Isaac L. Chuang and Venkatesh L. Murthy)@ 36-428 New developments in optics for computing (Ryan Hamerly w Manya ) @36-225 |
| 11:45 AM - 12:15 AM | Breakout Session 1 Report: Questions, Deliverables, Commentary |
| 12:15 AM - 1:15 PM | Lunch |
| 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM | Short Talks 2 (4 talks of 10 min P + 5 min Q) 1:15- Role of Symmetries in Neural Networks - Hidenori Tanaka 1:30- Quantum walks on hierarchical graphs - Aram Harrow 1:45- Delocalized Photonic Deep Learning on the Internet’s Edge - Ryan Hamerly 2:00- Neural Computation - Venkatesh N. Murthy |
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Breakout Session 2 (round table discussions) What is scientific innovation in physics and in computer science? (Sho Sugiura w. Venkatesh N. Murthy and Jeffrey Grover) @ 36-462 How to live with erroneous Quantum Computation? (Sina Zeytinoglu w. Aram Harrow and Isaac Chuang ) @ 36-428 Free session (Gautam Reddy w. Anna Golubeva) @36-225 |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Breakout Session 2 Report: Questions, Deliverables, Commentary |
| 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM | Short Talks 3 (5 talks of 10 min P + 5 min Q) 4:15- Sparsity in Neural Networks - Anna Glubeva 4:30- Quantum Advantages for Chemistry via Embedding - Troy Van Voorhis 4:45- Error-robust QSP using Rydberg atoms - Sina Zeytinoglu 5:00- Quantum advantage for noisy channel discrimination - Sho Sugiura 5:15- Quantum Signal Processing - Isaac L. Chuang |
| 6:00 PM | Workshop dinner at Glass House (https://www.glasshousecambridge.com/) |
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