Title:
A Bayesian Probability Calculus for Density Matrices
Speaker:
Manfred K. Warmuth
Subject:
Computer Science: Machine Learning: Bayesian Learning
Area:
Computer Science
Type of school:
videolectures.net
School name:
University of California
Country:
United States
Course language:
English (United States)
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
38:04
Contributor:
HR
Comments:
A Bayesian Probability Calculus for Density Matrices
author: Manfred K. Warmuth, Department of Computer Science, University of California
Description
One of the main concepts in quantum physics is a density matrix, which is a symmetric positive definite matrix of trace one. Finite probability distributions can be seen as a special case when the density matrix is restricted to be diagonal. We develop a probability calculus based on these more general distributions that includes definitions of joints conditionals and formulas that relate these, including analogs of the Theorem of Total Probability and various Bayes rules for the calculation of posterior density matrices. The resulting calculus parallels the familiar ``conventional probability calculus and always retains the latter as a special case when all matrices are diagonal.
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