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Tensor network (TN) techniques - often used in the context of quantum many-body physics - have shown promise as a tool for tackling machine learning (ML) problems. The application of TNs to ML, however, has mostly focused on supervised and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-14 Edward Gillman , Dominic C. Rose , Juan P. Garrahan

Tensor networks were developed in the context of many-body physics as compressed representations of multiparticle quantum states. These representations mitigate the exponential complexity of many-body systems by capturing only the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Guillermo Valverde , Igor García-Olaizola , Giannicola Scarpa , Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens

Tensor networks (TNs) enable compact representations of large tensors through shared parameters. Their use in probabilistic modeling is particularly appealing, as probabilistic tensor networks (PTNs) allow for tractable computation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed , Guillaume Rabusseau

Probabilistic inference is a fundamental task in modern machine learning. Recent advances in tensor network (TN) contraction algorithms have enabled the development of better exact inference methods. However, many common inference tasks in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Martin Roa-Villescas , Xuanzhao Gao , Sander Stuijk , Henk Corporaal , Jin-Guo Liu

Tensor networks have found a wide use in a variety of applications in physics and computer science, recently leading to both theoretical insights as well as practical algorithms in machine learning. In this work we explore the connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Ivan Glasser , Nicola Pancotti , J. Ignacio Cirac

This is a set of lectures on tensor networks with a strong emphasis on the core algorithms involving Matrix Product States (MPS) and Matrix Product Operators (MPO). Compared to other presentations, particular care has been given to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Xavier Waintal , Chen-How Huang , Christoph W. Groth

Generative modeling, which learns joint probability distribution from data and generates samples according to it, is an important task in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Inspired by probabilistic interpretation of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-20 Zhao-Yu Han , Jun Wang , Heng Fan , Lei Wang , Pan Zhang

The groundbreaking performance of deep neural networks (NNs) promoted a surge of interest in providing a mathematical basis to deep learning theory. Low-rank tensor decompositions are specially befitting for this task due to their close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ricardo Borsoi , Konstantin Usevich , Marianne Clausel

Beyond their origin in modeling many-body quantum systems, tensor networks have emerged as a promising class of models for solving machine learning problems, notably in unsupervised generative learning. While possessing many desirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Alex Meiburg , Jing Chen , Jacob Miller , Raphaëlle Tihon , Guillaume Rabusseau , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

Simulation of quantum systems is challenging due to the exponential size of the state space. Tensor networks provide a systematically improvable approximation for quantum states. 2D tensor networks such as Projected Entangled Pair States…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yuchen Pang , Tianyi Hao , Annika Dugad , Yiqing Zhou , Edgar Solomonik

Tensor networks are factorisations of high rank tensors into networks of lower rank tensors and have primarily been used to analyse quantum many-body problems. Tensor networks have seen a recent surge of interest in relation to supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Raghavendra Selvan , Silas Ørting , Erik B Dam

We provide evidence that randomized low-rank factorization is a powerful tool for the determination of the ground state properties of low-dimensional lattice Hamiltonians through tensor network techniques. In particular, we show that…

Understanding the quantum evolution of light in nonlinear media is central to the development of next-generation quantum technologies. Yet modeling these processes remains computationally demanding, as the required resources grow rapidly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Nikolay Kapridov , Egor Tiunov , Dmitry Chermoshentsev

When studying interacting systems, computing their statistical properties is a fundamental problem in various fields such as physics, applied mathematics, and machine learning. However, this task can be quite challenging due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Yijia Wang , Yuwen Ebony Zhang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

Encoding classical data in a quantum state is a key prerequisite of many quantum algorithms. Recently matrix product state (MPS) methods emerged as the most promising approach for constructing shallow quantum circuits approximating input…

We characterize the variational power of quantum circuit tensor networks in the representation of physical many-body ground-states. Such tensor networks are formed by replacing the dense block unitaries and isometries in standard tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Reza Haghshenas , Johnnie Gray , Andrew C. Potter , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Squared tensor networks (TNs) and their extension as computational graphs--squared circuits--have been used as expressive distribution estimators, yet supporting closed-form marginalization. However, the squaring operation introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Lorenzo Loconte , Adrián Javaloy , Antonio Vergari

We consider the problem of the estimation of a high-dimensional probability distribution from i.i.d. samples of the distribution using model classes of functions in tree-based tensor formats, a particular case of tensor networks associated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Erwan Grelier , Anthony Nouy , Régis Lebrun

Characteristic functions of weighted sums of independent random variables exhibit low-rank structure in the quantized tensor train (QTT) representation, also known as matrix product states (MPS), enabling up to exponential compression of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Juan José Rodríguez-Aldavero , Juan José García-Ripoll

Deep neural networks have achieved a great success in solving many machine learning and computer vision problems. The main contribution of this paper is to develop a deep network based on Tucker tensor decomposition, and analyze its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Ye Liu , Junjun Pan , Michael Ng