Hongrui Zhang, Paolo Recchia, Ying Chenquant-ph stat.ML
High-dimensional simulation of multivariate extremes is fundamentally limited by the combinatorial complexity of dependence, often more than by the scarcity of extreme observations. We show that symmetry admits a lossless orbit-space representation that preserves structured extreme dependence while replacing an exponentially large dependence space with a compact set of symmetry classes. Based on this principle, we develop Q-Edge (Quantum Extreme Dependence Engine), a symmetry-reduced quantum framework that operates directly in orbit space, enabling scalable simulation and digital twins of structured extreme systems. By transferring symmetry into the data representation rather than the quantum circuit, Q-Edge allows unconstrained quantum generative models to exploit dramatically reduced state spaces. For a 30-dimensional problem, approximately 1.6 million angular states collapse to 256 orbit states, reducing the required quantum representation from about 21 qubits to 8. Our results establish a general computational principle for scalable quantum simulation of structured extreme dependence.
Structure-preserving neural networks are essential for the long-term prediction of Hamiltonian systems from data. Many important Hamiltonian systems in mechanics and control admit symmetry reduction to Lie--Poisson systems, including rigid bodies, underwater vehicles, fluids, plasmas, and optimal control problems. A fundamental challenge in learning such systems is that their dynamics evolve in momentum variables that are typically unobservable, while available data consist only of observable quantities such as configurations and velocities. In optimal control applications, the situation is further complicated because the latent variables contain unobservable co-states and the Hamiltonian may be degenerate, preventing the existence of a corresponding Lagrangian and rendering the encoder-decoder approaches inapplicable. We introduce Latent Lie--Poisson Neural Networks (LLPNNs), a structure-preserving framework for learning Lie--Poisson dynamics directly from observable data. The proposed approach exploits three geometric ingredients: (i) learning either a Hamiltonian decoder or a pseudo-Lagrangian encoder on the active variables, (ii) constructing latent trajectories through a universal Noether invariant arising from Lie--Poisson symmetry reduction, and (iii) reconstructing observable and latent dynamics through Lie--Poisson flows combined with Magnus-based Lie-group updates. The resulting method preserves the geometric structure and is applicable to both regular and degenerate Hamiltonian systems. We demonstrate the method on three examples: a generalized rigid body on SO(3), Kirchhoff's underwater vehicle on SE(3), and an optimal-control problem for interacting vehicles on $SE(2)^N$. Numerical experiments show excellent long-term predictive accuracy, strong robustness to noise, and competitive performance using only modest datasets and lightweight neural-network architectures.