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Quantum computation is a promising emerging technology, and by utilizing the principles of quantum mechanics, it is expected to achieve faster computations than classical computers for specific problems. There are two distinct architectures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Takashi Imoto , Yuki Susa , Ryoji Miyazaki , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Over the past years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool to tackle complex problems over a broad range of scientific disciplines. In particular, artificial neural networks have been successfully deployed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Juan Carrasquilla , Giacomo Torlai

Quantum computing holds great promise to accelerate scientific computations in fluid dynamics and other classical physical systems. While various quantum algorithms have been proposed for linear flows, developing quantum algorithms for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Boyuan Wang , Zhaoyuan Meng , Yaomin Zhao , Yue Yang

The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) has been successfully applied to solve the many-electron Schr$\ddot{\text{o}}$dinger equation. In this work we propose a single-layer fully connected neural network adapted from RBM and apply it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yangjun Wu , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti , Yi Fan , Chu Guo , Honghui Shang

The Boltzmann Machine (BM) is a neural network composed of stochastically firing neurons that can learn complex probability distributions by adapting the synaptic interactions between the neurons. BMs represent a very generic class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Brian Kiraly , Elze J. Knol , Hilbert J. Kappen , Alexander A. Khajetoorians

Quantum computers are ideally set up to solve linear systems which are of a form similar to the Schrodinger/Dirac equation of quantum mechanics. In the framework of linear response theory, the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic…

Understanding how the D-Wave quantum computer could be used for machine learning problems is of growing interest. Our work evaluates the feasibility of using the D-Wave as a sampler for machine learning. We describe a hybrid system that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Jennifer Sleeman , John Dorband , Milton Halem

Modest statistical differences between the sampling performances of the D-Wave quantum annealer (QA) and the classical Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), when applied to Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), are explored to explain, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Abdelmoula El-Yazizi , Yaroslav Koshka

Quantum annealing is getting increasing attention in combinatorial optimization. The quantum processing unit by D-Wave is constructed to approximately solve Ising models on so-called Chimera graphs. Ising models are equivalent to quadratic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Michael Juenger , Elisabeth Lobe , Petra Mutzel , Gerhard Reinelt , Franz Rendl , Giovanni Rinaldi , Tobias Stollenwerk

Training of neural networks (NNs) has emerged as a major consumer of both computational and energy resources. Quantum computers were coined as a root to facilitate training, but no experimental evidence has been presented so far. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hao Zhang , Alex Kamenev

The promise of quantum computing to open new unexplored possibilities in several scientific fields has been long discussed, but until recently the lack of a functional quantum computer has confined this discussion mostly to theoretical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Riccardo Nembrini , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

We demonstrate quantum many-body state reconstruction from experimental data generated by a programmable quantum simulator, by means of a neural network model incorporating known experimental errors. Specifically, we extract restricted…

Optimizing the training of a machine learning pipeline helps in reducing training costs and improving model performance. One such optimizing strategy is quantum annealing, which is an emerging computing paradigm that has shown potential in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Rajdeep Kumar Nath , Himanshu Thapliyal , Travis S. Humble

We introduce evolved quantum Boltzmann machines as a variational ansatz for quantum optimization and learning tasks. Given two parameterized Hamiltonians $G(\theta)$ and $H(\phi)$, an evolved quantum Boltzmann machine consists of preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Michele Minervini , Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

Building a good generative model for image has long been an important topic in computer vision and machine learning. Restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is one of such models that is simple but powerful. However, its restricted form also has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Hengyuan Hu , Lisheng Gao , Quanbin Ma

The restricted Boltzmann machine is a basic machine learning tool able, in principle, to model the distribution of some arbitrary dataset. Its standard training procedure appears however delicate and obscure in many respects. We bring some…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-18 Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner

In this thesis we explore using the D-Wave Advantage 4.1 quantum annealer to sample from quantum Boltzmann distributions and train quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs). We focus on the real-world problem of using QBMs as generative models to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Cameron Perot

This paper presents an overview of the topology of D-Wave's next-generation quantum processors. It provides examples of minor embeddings and discusses performance of embedding algorithms for the new topology compared to the existing Chimera…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Kelly Boothby , Paul Bunyk , Jack Raymond , Aidan Roy

This study explores the implementation of large Quantum Restricted Boltzmann Machines (QRBMs), a key advancement in Quantum Machine Learning (QML), as generative models on D-Wave's Pegasus quantum hardware to address dataset imbalance in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Salvatore Sinno , Markus Bertl , Arati Sahoo , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Thomas Groß , Nicholas Chancellor

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is an energy based, undirected graphical model. It is commonly used for unsupervised and supervised machine learning. Typically, RBM is trained using contrastive divergence (CD). However, training with CD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Vivek Dixit , Raja Selvarajan , Muhammad A. Alam , Travis S. Humble , Sabre Kais