I will talk about:

. New efficient algorithms for quantum state tomography (the quantum analogue of estimating a probability distribution).

. Why you should care about the difference between total variation distance and Hellinger distance and KL divergence and chi-squared divergence.

. Quantum-inspired improvements to the classical problem of independence testing.

Includes joint work with Steven T. Flammia (Amazon)

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