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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's the 2026 edition

Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For least year's QIP, ChatGPT says that there 146 contributed regular talks. With there already being 1614 submissions to this year's QIP, if the plan is to have the same number of talks, that would amount to a 9% acceptance rate. Of course I don't know what the plan of the PC is for this year.

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Submission #1595 has been registered on the Quantum Information Processing Conference (QIP 2027) site."

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There will be a tsunami this week on @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social due to the impending QIP deadline, mandatory public release of submissions, & a GPT-enabled research community. Authors are recommended to ensure their papers are online by Sept. 30 so that the submissions will be public before Oct. 5

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn't even notice until now that we just had four different papers appear simultaneously on the strong converse for quantum channel discrimination in the parallel setting: arxiv.org/abs/2609.27196 arxiv.org/abs/2609.28635 arxiv.org/abs/2609.29885 arxiv.org/abs/2609.30268

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Quantum Channel Stein's Lemma with an Exponential Strong Converse

We establish the quantum channel Stein lemma at every fixed type-I error tolerance in $(0,1)$ and prove an exponential strong converse under arbitrary adaptive strategies. For any finite-dimensional c...

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glad to see this: Submission guidelines for STOC 2027: acm-stoc.org/stoc2027/ Policy experiments for STOC 2027 In light of rapid advances in generative AI and their impact on research and scientific communication, STOC 2027 is experimenting with several new policies

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STOC 2027 - 59th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 15/09/2026

Lots of fantastic opportunities to do an 8-week (paid) research internship with my colleagues in the School of CS at #USyd! The projects I am proposing are CS2026-27/10 Pseudo deterministic Quantum Algorithms CS2026-27/18 Feasibility of Quantum One Time Programs but the whole list is worth is read!

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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · 16/09/2026

I'm a fan of publishing everything. It's not like we'll run out of space on the Internet. The good stuff will bubble up through social media and AI-powered searching.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I used to watch my health to make sure my mind would stay sharp for doing research. Now, with AI & LLMs, I can be completely drunk and totally high all the time, just supervising the research process by typing a few words and clicking some buttons while sipping my beers and smoking my doobies. Nice!

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gilles Brassard speaking at the dinner banquet of TQC 2026: "Work on research problems that you enjoy"

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New paper: Conditional contraction coefficients and their applications to quantum networks arxiv.org/abs/2608.27171 Joint work with @christophhirche.bsky.social , Ian George, and Theshani Nuradha Motivating question: How much information does a noisy quantum channel destroy?

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Conditional contraction coefficients and their applications to quantum networks

Contraction coefficients quantify the loss of distinguishability induced by a channel and provide a strong form of the data-processing inequality. While standard contraction coefficients ignore auxili...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Further thoughts on the GPT situation in the form of a song. Based on "Against the 70s" by Mike Watt. Audio: legacy.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so... Title: Against the GPTs

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Against the GPTs | Mark Wilde

Against the GPTs by Mark Wilde, Rock music from Ithaca, NY on ReverbNation

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Joint work "Flood of multipartite Rains entanglement" w/ Hailey Murray et al. (incl. @mvscerezo.bsky.social) now available: arxiv.org/abs/2608.11406 We define several multipartite entanglement measures, including the Rains, monsoon, hurricane, & squall entanglement. Paper dedicated to Eric Rains!

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Flood of multipartite Rains entanglement

Multipartite entanglement admits phenomena such as the activation of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) and the existence of inequivalent classes of entanglement, and existing bipartite entanglem...

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wonder if I should start submitting my papers to physics.pop-ph instead of quant-ph in order to have fewer competing papers in the same arXiv subcategory. Only two entries during the past week!

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it seems that the QI community has already decided on the new rules: 1) buy the most expensive model of ChatGPT 2) feed it your favorite open research question / conjecture 3) have it find the solution for you and possibly even write the paper 4) post the result to the arXiv with your name on it

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This text has moved me deeply. I think we, as a species, have opened a door that we cannot close anymore. It will bring many advances, and some good will hopefully come from that, but we pay a price, the price of losing something profound. kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n...

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The Dark Night of Mathematics

What are we really doing?

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International Association for Quantum Information @iaqi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Let's have a community discussion about the impact of LLMs on quantum information research, and how to react to it as a research community! 👩‍🔬⚛️🤖 🏛️ Head over to the IAQI forum 👇 discuss.iaqi.org/t/quantum-in... 🦋 Please share widely!

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Quantum Information Processing research in the age of AI

Dear colleagues, Over the past weeks there have been more and more results in which AI models played a crucial role, not only in mathematics and theoretical computer science, but right at the heart o...

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We as a community would have been much more at peace with the present situation if it would have been quantum computers solving all of the open problems in quantum information theory, rather than large language models

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

AI hallucination in arxiv.org/abs/2607.24968 I can confirm that this paper does not exist! I've never published in PRE! journals.aps.org/search/resul...

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

goodness, I have never seen a more professional proof editing system than that offered by the Royal Society. I think I am in love and will now send all my papers to Proc. Royal Soc. A.

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Group photo from "Additivity Problems in Quantum and Classical Information Theory" in Banff, Canada www.birs.ca/workshops/20...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 14/07/2026

Herman Chernoff, of Chernoff bound fame, passed away a few days ago at age 103. He was, truly, an outlier, and someone who left a deep mark in the field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_...

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Herman Chernoff - Wikipedia

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Slides from my talk "Information-theoretic aspects of quantum channel discrimination" at www.birs.ca/events/2026/... are now available online: zenodo.org/records/2140...

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very rich and engaging open problems session at banff additivity! Recording will be available online

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Andreas Winter speaking at the Banff additivity workshop

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Charlie Bennett speaking at the Banff additivity workshop

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

usual story of scirate these days

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Joint work "Canonical quantization of neurons" with Alexander He and Nana Liu out on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2607.05000 This is a short version of arxiv.org/abs/2605.24386, with slides available at zenodo.org/records/2084...

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Canonical quantization of neurons

Canonical quantization provides a systematic procedure for constructing quantum models from classical Hamiltonians. Here, we apply this principle to a fundamental computational primitive of machine le...

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Robert Garisto @robertgaristo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You can now follow @physrevlett.aps.org here on Bluesky, as well as on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

hallucination in a PhD thesis from Univ. Waterloo

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'll give a talk "Canonical quantization of neurons" tomorrow during @qzoeholmes.bsky.social 's group meeting at 7am US Eastern time / 1pm Swiss time. The talk will be about my joint work with Alexander He & Nana Liu: arxiv.org/abs/2605.24386 Zoom link available here: epfl.zoom.us/j/6555745834...

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I had a funny dream last night that it was necessary for me to have a phone call with Charlie Bennett. Then when it was time to call, I typed in his phone number as B92-BB84

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Slides from my recent talk "Quantum thermodynamics and semi-definite optimization: Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein frameworks" in Rochester, NY, USA at Quantum Thermodynamics and Decoherence qtd-hub.umd.edu/event/sympos... are now available at zenodo.org/records/2058...

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Quantum thermodynamics and semi-definite optimization: Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein frameworks

Quantum thermodynamics offers a unifying interpretation for a wide class of semidefinite programs (SDPs) that arise in quantum information. Three SDP variable constraints, namely trace-one density ope...

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American Physical Society @apsphysics.aps.org · 02/06/2026

We’re bringing all of our research updates together in one place. Follow @apsjournals.bsky.social for the full portfolio of research and publishing news.

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Johannes Jakob Meyer @jjmeyer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I recently submitted my PhD thesis 🎉 I am now planning the next step of my journey. I will stay in Berlin for personal reasons, which makes me curious which research groups and companies would hire postdocs or equivalent for remote positions. If you have any leads, please DM!

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Prof. Nana Liu visited our research group for the past month. Very delightful and productive discussions!

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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Onset of superactivation of quantum capacity", joint work w/ Marco Parentin, Bjarne Bergh, & Nilanjana Datta now online: arxiv.org/abs/2604.27042 First demonstration of the superactivation effect in the non-asymptotic regime, showing that it can be accomplished w/ just 17 channel uses.

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Onset of superactivation of quantum capacity

Superactivation of quantum capacity is the phenomenon whereby two quantum channels, each with zero quantum capacity, can exhibit a strictly positive capacity when used in tandem. In this work, we expl...

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