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arXiv:1807.01235 · Information Sciences

Quantum generative adversarial network for generating discrete distribution

Haozhen Situ, Zhimin He, Yuyi Wang, Lvzhou Li, Shenggen Zheng

Published Jun 9, 2020• 163 citations
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10.1016/j.ins.2020.05.127

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