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Hybrid Quantum-Classical Ridgelet Neural Networks for Portfolio Optimization

Machine Learning 2026-04-30 v2 Optimization and Control Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In this study, we introduce a quantum computing method that incorporates Ridglet transforms into quantum processing pipelines for financial time-series forecasting with Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)-based portfolio optimization. We propose a Quantum Ridgelet Neural Network (QRNN) model for forecasting time-series data that integrates Parametrized Quantum Circuits (PQCs) with ridgelet-based feature transformations and QAOA-based portfolio optimization for asset selection. By breaking down financial time-series data into multi-resolution components, the ridgelet transform enables the identification of both local and global trends. Ridgelet-based features improve the scalability and accuracy of quantum computing by significantly reducing the number of qubits needed. However, the predicted results are turned into a QUBO-based mean-variance optimization problem and solved with QAOA to select the best stocks. Our study begins with a theoretical formulation of the single-qubit system for our proposed model. This formulation is further extended to a multi-qubit system, and we show that it captures a significant fraction of the predictive signal.

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@article{arxiv.2601.03654,
  title  = {Hybrid Quantum-Classical Ridgelet Neural Networks for Portfolio Optimization},
  author = {Bahadur Yadav and Sanjay Kumar Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03654},
  year   = {2026}
}
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