Nikhil Bansal

Graduate student at @WarwickDCS || Previously: Physics Masters student @IiserMohali and Research Intern at IHPC, A*STAR || Exploring the Quantum World

[Nikhil Bansal @QuantNik]

Can quantum cloning be easier than learning for structured classes of states❓

We ask this question for stabilizer states in our recent work: https://t.co/nDKqPGo4Jw.

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[Ashley Montanaro @quantumashley]

Excited to see that the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture has apparently been proved! But depressed to see the amount of completely incorrect commentary on its implications, so here's an attempt to clear things up.

[Thomas Bloom @thomasfbloom]

I am baffled at how many people on this site seem to enthusiastically embrace the idea of humans being replaced by AI.

I don't mean in maths, or any one job in particular, just...in general.

I like humans, and interacting with them.

I want AI to help humans, not replace them.

[Thomas Bloom @thomasfbloom]

I know it's hard, but when reading try to be generous towards the author.

E.g. Fields medallists are not reactionary ego-driven luddites, but think a lot about mathematics, and are sincerely trying to do what they think is best for the subject they have devoted their lives to.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection https://t.co/uY2OSfyRnI

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Matthias C. Caro @IMathYou2]

We have a new paper out today: https://t.co/T0ateULWXS . Another title for the paper would be "how I learned to stop worrying and use graph parameters". ;)

[Aaron Roth @Aaroth]

What are our jobs as researchers now that we have proof machines? The raw proofs that come from LLMs are difficult to understand, even if correct. So its now easy to quickly write many badly written papers that nevertheless contain correct proofs of interesting results.

[Antonio Anna Mele @QuAntonioMele]

THIS IS NOT A PAPER ON ARXIV!

I want to spread more concern and awareness in our quantum information community about the current AI situation with examples, and try to stimulate important discussions that our community needs to have!
QIP will be a good time or will be too late?

[Thomas Bloom @thomasfbloom]

Mathematics -is- a human endeavour.

There is something which maybe you're calling mathematics that has nothing to do with humans, some 'platonic otherworld' of abstract ideas. But what I call mathematics is the human attempt to explore and understand this world.

[Nikhil Bansal @QuantNik]

@IMathYou2 @gauravmahajn We will also be presenting this work at QCTIP 2026 in the upcoming week and at TQC 2026 later in the year.

[Nikhil Bansal @QuantNik]

Can quantum cloning be easier than learning for structured classes of states❓

We ask this question for stabilizer states in our recent work: https://t.co/nDKqPGo4Jw.

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[Nikhil Bansal @QuantNik]

Finally, I would like to thank the brilliant @IMathYou2 and @gauravmahajn for many many interesting discussions. I learnt a lot about classical and quantum learning theory throughout this project from them 😄.

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