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Xuelian Li

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Toward Quantum Advantage in Learning Parities with Structured Noise via Lower Bound Optimization of the Condition Number

Learning Parities with Structured Noise (LPSN) can be reduced to solving nonlinear Boolean systems. In quantum computing, such systems are typically transformed into Macaulay linear systems and solved via quantum linear system algorithms, a process severely limited by the condition number. To address this, we propose a novel reduction method for Macaulay linear systems. Under the assumptions of Ding et al., we derive a condition number lower bound incorporating a scaling factor. This reduction not only guarantees efficient quantum state preparation but also exhibits a distinct advantage regarding the condition number interval relative to the reduced right-hand side vector, thereby reducing the lower bound of the condition number and ultimately optimizing the upper bound on the time complexity of the quantum algorithm for solving Boolean systems. Furthermore, applying this improved quantum algorithm to LPSN significantly reduces sample complexity by exploiting the Macaulay system's solution structure. We further provide a concrete logical-level quantum resource estimate, demonstrating that the optimized condition number translates directly into a reduction in circuit width, depth, and gate count. Finally, we establish an algorithm selection strategy by systematically comparing quantum and classical approaches across noise pattern adaptability, sample complexity, and time complexity. Results demonstrate that our quantum algorithm exhibits the potential to outperform classical counterparts under specific parameter regimes.

cs.CR

CallBench: A Benchmark for Dual-Goal Coordination in Phone Call Assistants

Target-oriented dialogue systems have demonstrated strong capabilities in completing user goals through interactive conversations. However, existing studies are primarily designed for single, explicit goal completion, while phone call assistants face a proxy setting that requires coordinating the device owner's explicit preset goal with the caller's implicit and dynamic goal. We introduce \textsc{CallBench}, a Chinese benchmark for evaluating dual-goal coordination in phone call assistants. \textsc{CallBench} contains 50,000 complete multi-turn phone call dialogues across six scenarios: takeout, delivery, taxi, work, life, and harassment. It covers regular presets, emergent presets, and no-preset cases, and includes diverse relations between owner-side and caller-side goals, such as alignment, complementarity, irrelevance, and conflict. We further design a preset-aware turn-level evaluation protocol covering semantic understanding, context use, active guidance, response quality, preset compliance, dialogue rhythm, and safety. Experiments on representative dialogue methods show that existing approaches still struggle with this task, highlighting the need for phone call assistants that can make reliable turn-level decisions between two independent goals under proxy constraints.

cs.AI

Strain-tunable Dirac semimetal phase transition and emergent superconductivity in a borophane

A two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semimetal with concomitant superconductivity has been long sought but rarely reported. It is believed that light-element materials have the potential to realize this goal owing to their intrinsic lightweight and metallicity. Here, based on the recently synthesized $β_{12}$ hydrogenated borophene [Science 371, 1143 (2021)], we investigate its counterpart named $β_{12}$-$ \rm {B_5H_3}$. Our first-principles calculations suggest it has good stability. $β_{12}$-$ \rm {B_5H_3}$ is a scarce Dirac semimetal demonstrating a strain-tunable phase transition from three Dirac cones to a single Dirac cone. Additionally, $β_{12}$-$ \rm {B_5H_3}$ is also a superior phonon-mediated superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature of 32.4 K and can be further boosted to 42 K under external strain. The concurrence of Dirac fermions and superconductivity, supplemented with dual tunabilities, reveals $β_{12}$-$ \rm {B_5H_3}$ is an attractive platform to study either quantum phase transition in 2D Dirac semimetal or the superconductivity or the exotic physics brought about by their interplay.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci

AdaCoach: A Virtual Coach for Training Customer Service Agents

With the development of online business, customer service agents gradually play a crucial role as an interface between the companies and their customers. Most companies spend a lot of time and effort on hiring and training customer service agents. To this end, we propose AdaCoach: A Virtual Coach for Training Customer Service Agents, to promote the ability of newly hired service agents before they get to work. AdaCoach is designed to simulate real customers who seek help and actively initiate the dialogue with the customer service agents. Besides, AdaCoach uses an automated dialogue evaluation model to score the performance of the customer agent in the training process, which can provide necessary assistance when the newly hired customer service agent encounters problems. We apply recent NLP technologies to ensure efficient run-time performance in the deployed system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first system that trains the customer service agent through human-computer interaction. Until now, the system has already supported more than 500,000 simulation training and cultivated over 1000 qualified customer service agents.

cs.CL