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Parameterized quantum circuits play a key role in quantum computing. Measuring the suitability of such a circuit for solving a class of problems is needed. One such promising measure is the expressivity of a circuit, which is defined in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Johanna Barzen , Frank Leymann

Model compression, such as pruning and quantization, has been widely applied to optimize neural networks on resource-limited classical devices. Recently, there are growing interest in variational quantum circuits (VQC), that is, a type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Zhirui Hu , Peiyan Dong , Zhepeng Wang , Youzuo Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Weiwen Jiang

The output prediction of quantum circuits is a formidably challenging task imperative in developing quantum devices. Motivated by the natural graph representation of quantum circuits, this paper proposes a Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuxiang Liu , Fanxu Meng , Lu Wang , Yi Hu , Zaichen Zhang , Xutao Yu

Parametric quantum circuits play a crucial role in the performance of many variational quantum algorithms. To successfully implement such algorithms, one must design efficient quantum circuits that sufficiently approximate the solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Paolo Stornati

Quantum computers have the opportunity to be transformative for a variety of computational tasks. Recently, there have been proposals to use the unsimulatably of large quantum devices to perform regression, classification, and other machine…

Finding a concrete use case for quantum computers in the near term is still an open question, with machine learning typically touted as one of the first fields which will be impacted by quantum technologies. In this work, we investigate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Brian Coyle , Maxwell Henderson , Justin Chan Jin Le , Niraj Kumar , Marco Paini , Elham Kashefi

Quantum machine learning is arguably one of the most explored applications of near-term quantum devices. Much focus has been put on notions of variational quantum machine learning where parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are used as…

The neural network and quantum computing are both significant and appealing fields, with their interactive disciplines promising for large-scale computing tasks that are untackled by conventional computers. However, both developments are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Feihong Shen , Jun Liu

A key open question in quantum computation is what advantages quantum neural networks (QNNs) may have over classical neural networks (NNs), and in what situations these advantages may transpire. Here we address this question by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Logan G. Wright , Peter L. McMahon

Parametrised quantum circuits are a central framework for near term quantum machine learning. However, it remains challenging to determine in advance how architectural choices, such as encoding strategies, gate placement, and entangling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Kyle James Stuart Campbell , Luigi Del Debbio , Petros Wallden

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are a central component of many variational quantum algorithms, yet there is a lack of understanding of how their parameterization impacts algorithm performance. We initiate this discussion by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Amara Katabarwa , Sukin Sim , Dax Enshan Koh , Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers

Variational Quantum Circuits are being used as versatile Quantum Machine Learning models. Some empirical results exhibit an advantage in supervised and generative learning tasks. However, when applied to Reinforcement Learning, less is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 André Sequeira , Luis Paulo Santos , Luís Soares Barbosa

Over a decade after its proposal, the idea of using quantum computers to sample hard distributions has remained a key path to demonstrating quantum advantage. Yet a severe drawback remains: verification seems to require classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Scott Aaronson , Yuxuan Zhang

Variational training of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) underpins many workflows employed on near-term noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. It is a hybrid quantum-classical approach that minimizes an associated cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Kathleen E. Hamilton , Emily Lynn , Raphael C. Pooser

This work investigates the expressive power of quantum circuits in approximating high-dimensional, real-valued functions. We focus on countably-parametric holomorphic maps $u:U\to \mathbb{R}$, where the parameter domain is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Junaid Aftab , Christoph Schwab , Haizhao Yang , Jakob Zech

In recent years, quantum computers and Shor quantum algorithm have posed a threat to current mainstream asymmetric cryptography methods (e.g. RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)). Therefore, it is necessary to construct a Post-Quantum…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Abel C. H. Chen

A central task in the field of quantum computing is to find applications where quantum computer could provide exponential speedup over any classical computer. Machine learning represents an important field with broad applications where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Xun Gao , Zhengyu Zhang , Luming Duan

Generative quantum eigensolver (GQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that iteratively trains a classical generative machine learning model such that the model can generate quantum circuits with desired properties such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Junya Nakamura , Shinichiro Sanji

Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are a leading approach to quantum machine learning on near-term devices, yet it remains unclear which circuit architecture yields the best accuracy-parameter trade-off on classical tabular data. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo

Partial differential equations (PDEs) play a crucial role in financial mathematics, particularly in portfolio optimization, and solving them using classical numerical or neural network methods has always posed significant challenges. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Letao Wang , Abdel Lisser , Sreejith Sreekumar , Zeno Toffano