(Unless marked as "by contribution", the authors of papers are listed alphabetically. * marks equal contribution.)
(by contribution) Yuexin Su, Ziyi Yang, Peiyuan Huang, Tongyang Li, and Yinyu Ye. Quantum Algorithms for Bandits with Knapsacks with Improved Regret and Time Complexities. In submission.
(by contribution) Yexin Zhang*, Shuo Zhou*, Xinzhao Wang*, Ziruo Wang, Ziyi Yang, Rui Yang, Yecheng Xue, and Tongyang Li. Efficient Classical Algorithms for Simulating Gaussian Boson Sampling on Graphs. In submission.
(by contribution) Xiaoyang Wang, Yuexin Su, and Tongyang Li. Performance guarantees of light-cone variational quantum algorithms for the maximum cut problem. In submission.
Shantanav Chakraborty, Soumyabrata Hazra, Tongyang Li, Changpeng Shao, Xinzhao Wang, and Yuxin Zhang. Quantum singular value transformation without block encodings: Near-optimal complexity with minimal ancilla. In submission.
(by contribution) Rui Yang, Yuntian Gu, Ziruo Wang, Yitao Liang, and Tongyang Li. QCircuitNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Dataset for Quantum Algorithm Design. In submission.
(by contribution) Chenyi Zhang and Tongyang Li. Comparisons Are All You Need for Optimizing Smooth Functions. In submission.
(by contribution) Shankar Balasubramanian, Tongyang Li, and Aram Harrow. Exponential speedups for quantum walks in random hierarchical graphs. In submission.
(by contribution) Zhiding Liang, Jinglei Cheng, Rui Yang, Hang Ren, Zhixin Song, Di Wu, Xuehai Qian, Tongyang Li, and Yiyu Shi. Unleashing the Potential of LLMs for Quantum Computing: A Study in Quantum Architecture Design. In submission.
(by contribution) Jinglei Cheng, Zhiding Liang, Rui Yang, Hang Ren, Yiyu Shi, Tongyang Li, and Xuehai Qian, Fidelity estimator, randomized benchmarking and ZNE for quantum pulses. In submission.
(by contribution) Zhiding Liang, Jinglei Cheng, Zhixin Song, Hang Ren, Rui Yang, Hanrui Wang, Kecheng Liu, Peter Kogge, Tongyang Li, Yongshan Ding, and Yiyu Shi, Towards Advantages of Parameterized Quantum Pulses. In submission.
Tongyang Li, Yuexin Su, Ziyi Yang, and Shengyu Zhang. Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms for Maxmimum Cut on Low-Girth Graphs. Physical Review Research, 7, 033014, 2025.
Tongyang Li, Quantum computers quickly find local minima, Nature Physics, 21, 512–513, 2025. (News & Views)
(by contribution) Weiyuan Gong*, Chenyi Zhang*, and Tongyang Li, Robustness of Quantum Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization. Accepted by the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).
(by contribution) Zherui Chen*, Yuchen Lu*, Hao Wang, Yizhou Liu, and Tongyang Li. Quantum Langevin Dynamics for Optimization. Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 406, No. 3, 52, 2025.
Xinyi Chen, Elad Hazan, Tongyang Li, Zhou Lu, Xinzhao Wang, and Rui Yang, Adaptive Online Learning of Quantum States. Quantum, 8:1471, 2024.
(by contribution) Weiyuan Gong*, Shuo Zhou*, and Tongyang Li. Complexity of Digital Quantum Simulation in the Low-Energy Subspace: Applications and a Lower Bound. Quantum, 8:1409, 2024.
(by contribution) Jiyu Jiang, Zongqi Wan, Tongyang Li, Meiyue Shao, and Jialin Zhang. Shadow Tomography of Quantum States with Prediction. Frontiers of Computer Science, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 1-12, 2025.
(by contribution) Han Zhong*, Jiachen Hu*, Yecheng Xue, Tongyang Li, and Liwei Wang. Provably Efficient Exploration in Quantum Reinforcement Learning with Logarithmic Worst-Case Regret. Accepted by the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024).
(by contribution) Yexin Zhang*, Chenyi Zhang*, Cong Fang, Liwei Wang, and Tongyang Li. Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Finite-Sum Optimization. Accepted by the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024).
(by contribution) Xinzhao Wang, Shengyu Zhang, and Tongyang Li. A Quantum Algorithm Framework for Discrete Probability Distributions with Applications to Rényi Entropy Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 3399-3426, 2024.
Jiachen Hu, Tongyang Li, Xinzhao Wang, Yecheng Xue, Chenyi Zhang, and Han Zhong. Quantum Non-Identical Mean Estimation: Efficient Algorithms and Fundamental Limits. Accepted by the 19th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2024).
Wenhao He, Tongyang Li, Xiantao Li, Zecheng Li, Chunhao Wang, and Ke Wang. Efficient Optimal Control of Open Quantum Systems. Accepted by the 19th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2024).
(by contribution) Zhiding Liang*, Zhixin Song*, Jinglei Cheng*, Hang Ren*, Tianyi Hao*, Rui Yang*, Yiyu Shi, and Tongyang Li. Combining Parameterized Pulses and Contextual Subspace for More Practical VQE. Accepted by the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC 2024).
(by contribution) Hao Wang*, Chenyi Zhang*, and Tongyang Li. Near-Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Minimizing the Maximal Loss. Accepted by the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).
Minbo Gao, Zhengfeng Ji, Tongyang Li, and Qisheng Wang, Logarithmic-Regret Quantum Learning Algorithms for Zero-Sum Games. Accepted by the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).
(by contribution) Yizhou Liu, Weijie J. Su, and Tongyang Li, On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks. Quantum, 7:1030, 2023.
(by contribution) Yecheng Xue*, Xiaoyu Chen*, Tongyang Li, and Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang, Near-Optimal Quantum Coreset Construction Algorithms for Clustering. Accepted by the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023).
(by contribution) Chenyi Zhang and Tongyang Li, Quantum Lower Bounds for Finding Stationary Points of Nonconvex Functions. Accepted by the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023).
(by contribution) Yan Zhu, Ge Bai, Yuexuan Wang, Tongyang Li, and Giulio Chiribella, Quantum autoencoders for communication-efficient quantum cloud computing. Quantum Machine Intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 27, 2023.
Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Andrew M. Childs, Shih-Han Hung, Tongyang Li, Chunhao Wang, and Xiaodi Wu, Quantum algorithm for estimating volumes of convex bodies. ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1-60, 2023; also a single-track contributed talk at the 23rd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2020; 17 among 283 submissions).
(by contribution) Qi Zhao, You Zhou, Alexander F. Shaw, Tongyang Li, and Andrew M. Childs, Hamiltonian simulation with random inputs. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 129, 270502, 2022; also a contributed talk at the 25th Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2022).
(by contribution) Zongqi Wan, Zhijie Zhang, Tongyang Li, Jialin Zhang, and Xiaoming Sun, Quantum Multi-Armed Bandits and Stochastic Linear Bandits Enjoy Logarithmic Regrets. Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023), Vol. 37, No. 8, 10087-10094, 2023.
(by contribution) Xiao-Ming Zhang, Tongyang Li, and Xiao Yuan, Quantum State Preparation with Optimal Circuit Depth: Implementations and Applications. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 129, 230504, 2022.
Nai-Hui Chia, András Gilyén, Tongyang Li, Han-Hsuan Lin, Ewin Tang, and Chunhao Wang, Sampling-based sublinear low-rank matrix arithmetic framework for dequantizing quantum machine learning, Journal of the ACM, Vol. 69, No. 5, 1-72, 2022. Previous conference version published in the Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2020), 387–400, 2020; also a contributed talk at the 23rd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2020).
Andrew M. Childs, Jiaqi Leng, Tongyang Li, Jin-Peng Liu, and Chenyi Zhang, Quantum simulation of real-space dynamics. Quantum, 6:860, 2022.
Andrew M. Childs, Tongyang Li, Jin-Peng Liu, Chunhao Wang, and Ruizhe Zhang, Quantum Algorithms for Sampling Log-Concave Distributions and Estimating Normalizing Constants. Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), 23205-23217, 2022; also a contributed talk at the 26th Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2023).
Tongyang Li and Ruizhe Zhang, Quantum Speedups of Optimizing Approximately Convex Functions with Applications to Logarithmic Regret Stochastic Convex Bandits. Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), 3152-3164, 2022.
(by contribution) Chenyi Zhang and Tongyang Li, Escape saddle points by a simple gradient-descent based algorithm. Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), 8545-8556, 2021.
(by contribution) Chenyi Zhang*, Jiaqi Leng*, and Tongyang Li, Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points. Quantum, 5:529, 2021; also a contributed talk at the 24th Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2021).
Andrew M. Childs, Shih-Han Hung, and Tongyang Li, Quantum query complexity with matrix-vector products. Proceedings of the 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021), Vol. 198, 55:1-55:19, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 2021.
Troy Lee, Tongyang Li, Miklos Santha, and Shengyu Zhang, On the cut dimension of a graph. Proceedings of the 36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021), Vol. 200, 15:1-15:35, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 2021.
(by contribution) Tongyang Li*, Chunhao Wang*, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, and Xiaodi Wu, Sublinear classical and quantum algorithms for general matrix games. Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), Vol. 35, No. 10, 8465-8473, 2021.
(by contribution) Daochen Wang*, Xuchen You*, Tongyang Li, and Andrew M. Childs, Quantum exploration algorithms for multi-armed bandits. Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), Vol. 35, No. 11, 10102-10110, 2021; also a contributed talk at the 4th Annual Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML 2020).
Nai-Hui Chia, Tongyang Li, Han-Hsuan Lin, and Chunhao Wang, Quantum-inspired sublinear algorithm for solving low-rank semidefinite programming. Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020), Vol. 170, 23:1–23:15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 2020.
András Gilyén and Tongyang Li, Distributional property testing in a quantum world. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2020), Vol. 151, 25:1–25:19, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 2020.
(by contribution) Shouvanik Chakrabarti*, Yiming Huang*, Tongyang Li, Soheil Feizi, and Xiaodi Wu, Quantum Wasserstein generative adversarial networks. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), 6778–6789, 2019.
(by contribution) Tongyang Li, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, and Xiaodi Wu, Sublinear quantum algorithms for training linear and kernel-based classifiers. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), 3815–3824, 2019.
Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Andrew M. Childs, Tongyang Li, and Xiaodi Wu, Quantum algorithms and lower bounds for convex optimization. Quantum, 4:221, 2020; also a contributed talk at the 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2019).
Tongyang Li and Xiaodi Wu, Quantum query complexity of entropy estimation. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 5, 2899–2921, 2019.
Fernando G.S.L. Brandão, Amir Kalev, Tongyang Li, Cedric Y.-Y. Lin, Krysta M. Svore, and Xiaodi Wu, Quantum SDP Solvers: Large Speed-ups, Optimality, and Applications to Quantum Learning. Proceedings of the 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2019), Vol. 132, 27:1–27:14, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 2019; also a contributed talk at the 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2019).
Andrew M. Childs and Tongyang Li, Efficient simulation of sparse Markovian quantum dynamics. Quantum Information & Computation 17 (2017), No. 11-12, 901–947.