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Classical reinforcement learning (RL) has generated excellent results in different regions; however, its sample inefficiency remains a critical issue. In this paper, we provide concrete numerical evidence that the sample efficiency (the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Jen-Yueh Hsiao , Yuxuan Du , Wei-Yin Chiang , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Quantum Computing aims to streamline machine learning, making it more effective with fewer trainable parameters. This reduction of parameters can speed up the learning process and reduce the use of computational resources. However, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Michael Kölle , Timo Witter , Tobias Rohe , Gerhard Stenzel , Philipp Altmann , Thomas Gabor

We present a classical control mechanism for Quantum devices using Reinforcement Learning. Our strategy is applied to the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) in order to optimize an objective function that encodes a solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Artur Garcia-Saez , Jordi Riu

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

In this thesis, we consider two simple but typical control problems and apply deep reinforcement learning to them, i.e., to cool and control a particle which is subject to continuous position measurement in a one-dimensional quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Zhikang Wang

Quantum computers can offer dramatic improvements over classical devices for data analysis tasks such as prediction and classification. However, less is known about the advantages that quantum computers may bring in the setting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Vedran Dunjko , Yi-Kai Liu , Xingyao Wu , Jacob M. Taylor

As medium-scale quantum computers progress, the application of quantum algorithms across diverse fields like simulating physical systems, chemistry, optimization, and cryptography becomes more prevalent. However, these quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Purnachandra Mandadapu

The state-of-the-art machine learning approaches are based on classical von Neumann computing architectures and have been widely used in many industrial and academic domains. With the recent development of quantum computing, researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Advances in the experimental demonstration of quantum processors have provoked a surge of interest to the idea of practical implementation of quantum computing over last years. It is expected that the use of quantum algorithms will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Egor E. Nuzhin , Dmitry Yudin

This paper presents the first algorithm for model-based offline quantum reinforcement learning and demonstrates its functionality on the cart-pole benchmark. The model and the policy to be optimized are each implemented as variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Simon Eisenmann , Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Thomas A. Runkler

Quantum computers have the potential to deliver speed-ups for solving certain important problems that are intractable for classical counterparts, making them a promising avenue for advancing modern computation. However, many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kang-Min Hu , Min Namkung , Hyang-Tag Lim

Quantum computing holds promise across various fields, particularly with the advent of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, which can outperform classical supercomputers in specific tasks. However, challenges such as noise and…

Recent progress in quantum machine learning has sparked interest in using quantum methods to tackle classical control problems via quantum reinforcement learning. However, the classical reinforcement learning environments often scale to…

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a versatile and expressive alternative to traditional variational ans\"atze for simulating physical systems. Energy-based frameworks, like Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Manas Sajjan , Vinit Singh , Sabre Kais

Artificial intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments requires the capacity for continual learning. However, standard deep learning suffers from a fundamental issue: loss of plasticity, in which networks gradually lose their ability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang

In the last few years, quantum computing and machine learning fostered rapid developments in their respective areas of application, introducing new perspectives on how information processing systems can be realized and programmed. The…

Photons are promising candidates for quantum information technology due to their high robustness and long coherence time at room temperature. Inspired by the prosperous development of photonic computing techniques, recent research has…

A central challenge in quantum information science and technology is achieving real-time estimation and feedforward control of quantum systems. This challenge is compounded by the inherent inhomogeneity of quantum resources, such as qubit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Linsen Li , Pratyush Anand , Kaiming He , Dirk Englund

Advances in quantum technologies are accelerating the demand for optical quantum state sensors that combine high precision, versatility, and scalability within a unified hardware platform. Quantum reservoir computing offers a powerful route…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been widely adopted both in the industry and in everyday life, but at the cost of high compute demands. Recent studies show that implementing machine learning in physical systems in the deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 J. C. López Carreño , S. Świerczewski , A. Opala , A. Salavrakos , B. Piętka , M. Matuszewski