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We introduce the reinforcement quantum annealing (RQA) scheme in which an intelligent agent interacts with a quantum annealer that plays the stochastic environment role of learning automata and tries to iteratively find better Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Ramin Ayanzadeh , Milton Halem , Tim Finin

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a control approach that can handle nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems. However, despite the promise exhibited, RL has yet to see marked translation to industrial practice primarily due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Elton Pan , Panagiotis Petsagkourakis , Max Mowbray , Dongda Zhang , Antonio del Rio-Chanona

The Newton-Raphson (NR) method is widely used for solving power flow (PF) equations due to its quadratic convergence. However, its performance deteriorates under poor initialization or extreme operating scenarios, e.g., high levels of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Zeynab Kaseb , Matthias Moller , Lindsay Spoor , Jerry J. Guo , Yu Xiang , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Steven Herbert , Akash Sengupta

Recent advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) have sparked considerable interest in the integration of these two cutting-edge fields. Among the various ML techniques, reinforcement learning (RL) stands out for its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Quantum chemistry and optimization are two of the most prominent applications of quantum computers. Variational quantum algorithms have been proposed for solving problems in these domains. However, the design of the quantum circuit ansatz…

The current quantum reinforcement learning control models often assume that the quantum states are known a priori for control optimization. However, full observation of quantum state is experimentally infeasible due to the exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Chen Jiang , Yu Pan , Zheng-Guang Wu , Qing Gao , Daoyi Dong

Advancements in Quantum Computing (QC) and Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) represent promising steps in tackling complex computational challenges. On the one hand, Variational Quantum Algorithms such as QAOA can be used to solve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Georg Kruse , Rodrigo Coehlo , Andreas Rosskopf , Robert Wille , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Optimizing quantum circuits is challenging due to the very large search space of functionally equivalent circuits and the necessity of applying transformations that temporarily decrease performance to achieve a final performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Zikun Li , Jinjun Peng , Yixuan Mei , Sina Lin , Yi Wu , Oded Padon , Zhihao Jia

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is an algorithmic framework for finding approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems, derived from an approximation to the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm (QAA). In solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Yue Ruan , Samuel Marsh , Xilin Xue , Xi Li , Zhihao Liu , Jingbo Wang

The key approaches for machine learning, especially learning in unknown probabilistic environments are new representations and computation mechanisms. In this paper, a novel quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) method is proposed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Daoyi Dong , Chunlin Chen , Hanxiong Li , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a class of artificial intelligence algorithms being used to design adaptive optimal controllers through online learning. This paper presents a model-free, real-time, data-efficient Q-learning-based algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Ali Aalipour , Alireza Khani

With the rapid advance of information technology, network systems have become increasingly complex and hence the underlying system dynamics are often unknown or difficult to characterize. Finding a good network control policy is of…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Bai Liu , Qiaomin Xie , Eytan Modiano

Measurement is an essential component of robust and practical quantum computation. For superconducting qubits, the measurement process involves the effective manipulation of the joint qubit-resonator dynamics, and it should ideally provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Aniket Chatterjee , Jonathan Schwinger , Yvonne Y. Gao

Quantum hardware and quantum-inspired algorithms are becoming increasingly popular for combinatorial optimization. However, these algorithms may require careful hyperparameter tuning for each problem instance. We use a reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Dmitrii Beloborodov , A. E. Ulanov , Jakob N. Foerster , Shimon Whiteson , A. I. Lvovsky

Robust and high-precision quantum control is crucial but challenging for scalable quantum computation and quantum information processing. Traditional adiabatic control suffers severe limitations on gate performance imposed by…

Reinforcement learning (RL) with limited samples is common in real-world applications. However, offline RL performance under this constraint is often suboptimal. We consider an alternative approach to dealing with limited samples by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Outongyi Lv , Yewei Yuan , Nana Liu

We propose a systematic method based on reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to find the optimal path that can minimize the total entropy production between two equilibrium states of open systems at the same temperature in a given fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Rongxing Xu

Recursive QAOA (RQAOA) solves combinatorial optimization problems by using shallow quantum circuits to estimate pairwise correlations and recursively eliminate variables until a classical solver can handle the residual instance. Each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Euimin Lee , Shiho Kim

Developing scalable, fault-tolerant atomic quantum processors requires precise control over large arrays of optical beams. This remains a major challenge due to inherent imperfections in classical control hardware, such as inter-channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Qian Ding , Dirk Englund