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Controllability has become a crucial aspect of trustworthy machine learning, enabling learners to meet predefined targets and adapt dynamically at test time without requiring retraining as the targets shift. We provide a formal definition…
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This paper addresses the problem of qubit routing in first-generation and other near-term quantum computers. In particular, it is asserted that the qubit routing problem can be formulated as a reinforcement learning (RL) problem, and that…
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