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At the interface of machine learning and quantum computing, an important question is what distributions can be learned provably with optimal sample complexities and with quantum-accelerated time complexities. In the classical case, Klivans…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Siyi Yang , Naixu Guo , Miklos Santha , Patrick Rebentrost

Neural networks have achieved impressive breakthroughs in both industry and academia. How to effectively develop neural networks on quantum computing devices is a challenging open problem. Here, we propose a new quantum neural network model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Min-Gang Zhou , Zhi-Ping Liu , Hua-Lei Yin , Chen-Long Li , Tong-Kai Xu , Zeng-Bing Chen

We propose a new way of training neural networks, with the goal of reducing training cost. Our method uses approximate predicted gradients instead of the full gradients that require an expensive backward pass. We derive a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kamil Ciosek , Nicolò Felicioni , Juan Elenter Litwin

Building a quantum analog of classical deep neural networks represents a fundamental challenge in quantum computing. A key issue is how to address the inherent non-linearity of classical deep learning, a problem in the quantum domain due to…

Quantum machine learning has established as an interdisciplinary field to overcome limitations of classical machine learning and neural networks. This is a field of research which can prove that quantum computers are able to solve problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Meghashrita Das , Tirupati Bolisetti

Recent developments in quantum computing and machine learning have propelled the interdisciplinary study of quantum machine learning. Sequential modeling is an important task with high scientific and commercial value. Existing VQC or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Daniel Fry , Amol Deshmukh , Vladimir Rastunkov , Charlee Stefanski

Second-order methods for neural network optimization have several advantages over methods based on first-order gradient descent, including better scaling to large mini-batch sizes and fewer updates needed for convergence. But they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Huishuai Zhang , Caiming Xiong , James Bradbury , Richard Socher

We address the challenging problem of deep representation learning--the efficient adaption of a pre-trained deep network to different tasks. Specifically, we propose to explore gradient-based features. These features are gradients of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Fangzhou Mu , Yingyu Liang , Yin Li

Fault-tolerant Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) promise to deliver exponential speed-ups in select computational tasks, yet their integration into modern deep learning pipelines remains unclear. In this work, we take a step towards bridging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Arthur G. Rattew , Po-Wei Huang , Naixu Guo , Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

We present a computationally efficient method for compressing a trained neural network without using real data. We break the problem of data-free network compression into independent layer-wise compressions. We show how to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Maxwell Horton , Yanzi Jin , Ali Farhadi , Mohammad Rastegari

We propose quantum neural networks that include multi-qubit interactions in the neural potential leading to a reduction of the network depth without losing approximative power. We show that the presence of multi-qubit potentials in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yue Ban , E. Torrontegui , J. Casanova

Combining the advantages of quantum computing and neural networks, quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained considerable attention recently. However, because of the lack of quantum resource, it is costly to train QNNs. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Tong Dou , Zhenwei Zhou , Kaiwei Wang , Shilu Yan , Wei Cui

In this paper, we present a novel framework for enhancing the performance of Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QuNNs) by introducing trainable quanvolutional layers and addressing the critical challenges associated with them. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Muhammad Kashif , Muhammad Shafique

Recently, quantum neural networks or quantum-classical neural networks (qcNN) have been actively studied, as a possible alternative to the conventional classical neural network (cNN), but their practical and theoretically-guaranteed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Kouhei Nakaji , Hiroyuki Tezuka , Naoki Yamamoto

Quantum reinforcement learning utilizes quantum layers to process information within a machine learning model. However, both pure and hybrid quantum reinforcement learning face challenges such as data encoding and the use of quantum…

Quantum machine learning algorithms could provide significant speed-ups over their classical counterparts; however, whether they could also achieve good generalization remains unclear. Recently, two quantum perceptron models which give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Mathieu Roget , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Hachem Kadri

With the growing importance of large network models and enormous training datasets, GPUs have become increasingly necessary to train neural networks. This is largely because conventional optimization algorithms rely on stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Gavin Taylor , Ryan Burmeister , Zheng Xu , Bharat Singh , Ankit Patel , Tom Goldstein

Deep neural networks are a powerful tool for the characterization of quantum states. Existing networks are typically trained with experimental data gathered from the specific quantum state that needs to be characterized. But is it possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Yan Zhu , Ya-Dong Wu , Ge Bai , Dong-Sheng Wang , Yuexuan Wang , Giulio Chiribella

In recent years, advanced deep neural networks have required a large number of parameters for training. Therefore, finding a method to reduce the number of parameters has become crucial for achieving efficient training. This work proposes a…

We discuss a quantum version of an artificial deep neural network where the role of neurons is taken over by qubits and the role of weights is played by unitaries. The role of the non-linear activation function is taken over by subsequently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Beatrix C. Hiesmayr