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ArticleAPL quantum2026

Quantum mechanics-based multitensor AI/ML uniquely able to discover, validate, and interpret predictors from small-cohort noisy high-dimensional multiomic data.

Orly Alter, Elizabeth Newman, Sri Priya Ponnapalli, Jessica W Tsai

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Article in APL quantum, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Orly AlterScientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0418-1078
Elizabeth NewmanDepartment of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6309-7706
Sri Priya PonnapalliScale AI, Inc., San Francisco, California 94103, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-9608-7914
Jessica W TsaiCancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90027, and Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90033, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0540-4330

Funding

Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and PrognosticsU01CA202144 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI ALTER, ORLY · 2015 to 2019
$3.4M
From genomics to natural language processing: A protected environment for research computing in the health scienceS10OD021644 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI CHEATHAM, THOMAS E. · 2017 to 2017
$494k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA202144NIH HHS S10 OD021644
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Abstract

Prediction in medicine remains limited. Previously, by using our "comparative spectral decompositions" of two matrices and, separately, two third-order tensors, we demonstrated accurate, precise, actionable, and interpretable tumor whole-genome and, separately, whole-transcriptome predictors-of patients' survival, treatment responses, and drug targets-in different cancers. Here, we introduce a unified framework that generalizes these exact and structure-preserving algorithms to multiple tensors of any order to model real-world data that measure multiple aspects of interrelated phenomena. We prove properties (e.g., existence and uniqueness) and define metrics (e.g., the "multitensor joint Shannon entropy" and the "multitensor comparative angular distance") necessary to derive, test, and explain a model. We highlight the novel connection to the quantum mechanical concept of "entanglement" in addition to that of "superposition." We illustrate the framework in the discovery and validation of two novel predictors in neuroblastoma-each with three entangled representations-in the tumor and blood genomes and tumor transcriptome, where the result of the measurement of any one representation approximately determines the results of the measurements of the other two. Finally, we show that in every representation, the two predictors combined are consistently more accurate than the best standard-of-care biomarker (i.e., the one-gene test for tumor

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