Quantum Memory Advantage from Contextuality
arXiv:2607.00507
2026
Architecture
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The paper identifies a graph-theoretic separation between classical and quantum representations of mutually exclusive events: a classical finite automaton needs at least the chromatic number \(\chi(G)\), while a quantum-style representation needs only the graph's orthogonal rank \(\xi(G)\). This suggests a recurrent memory whose states are continuous vectors constrained to be orthogonal on incompatible contexts, potentially representing formal-language state information in much lower dimension than one-hot or discrete automaton memory. The most practical transfer is not a quantum simulator, but a trainable orthogonal-rank memory cell evaluated on synthetic sequence tasks whose transition and confusability structure is specified by an exclusivity graph.
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2026
Replace a discrete or one-hot recurrent state table with a low-dimensional vector memory whose event embeddings are orthogonal whenever the corresponding events are mutually exclusive in an input exclusivity graph. The module uses continuous state vectors and can therefore target dimension \(d=\xi(G)\), whereas a discrete state encoding is lower-bounded by \(N\geq\chi(G)\). This should be tested on graph-defined formal-language recognition tasks, where the graph is known and the claimed…
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