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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

Schedule

9:00 AM - 9:20 AMOpening Remarks - Yoshihisa Yamamoto
9:20 AM - 10:20 AMShort 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 AMBreakout 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 AMBreakout Session 1 Report: Questions, Deliverables, Commentary
12:15 AM - 1:15 PMLunch
1:15 PM - 2:15 PMShort 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 PMBreakout 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 PMBreakout Session 2 Report: Questions, Deliverables, Commentary
4:15 PM - 5:30 PMShort 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 PMWorkshop dinner at Glass House (https://www.glasshousecambridge.com/)

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