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We introduce a reinforcement learning algorithm designed to identify the fixed points of a given quantum operation. The method iteratively constructs the unitary transformation that maps the computational basis onto the basis of fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 María Laura Olivera-Atencio , Jesús Casado-Pascual , Denis Lacroix

Quantum control is concerned with the realisation of desired dynamics in quantum systems, serving as a linchpin for advancing quantum technologies and fundamental research. Analytic approaches and standard optimisation algorithms do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Jan Ole Ernst , Aniket Chatterjee , Tim Franzmeyer , Axel Kuhn

In the past decade, the field of quantum machine learning has drawn significant attention due to the prospect of bringing genuine computational advantages to now widespread algorithmic methods. However, not all domains of machine learning…

Quantum Kernels are projected to provide early-stage usefulness for quantum machine learning. However, highly sophisticated classical models are hard to surpass without losing interpretability, particularly when vast datasets can be…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-04 Javier Mancilla , André Sequeira , Tomas Tagliani , Francisco Llaneza , Claudio Beiza

Reinforcement learning is a popular method of finding optimal solutions to complex problems. Algorithms like Q-learning excel at learning to solve stochastic problems without a model of their environment. However, they take longer to solve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Jan Diekhoff , Jörn Fischer

Model Predictive Control has been recently proposed as policy approximation for Reinforcement Learning, offering a path towards safe and explainable Reinforcement Learning. This approach has been investigated for Q-learning and actor-critic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Sebastien Gros , Mario Zanon

The growing computational demands of classical neural networks have intensified the search for energy-efficient and powerful computational alternatives. Quantum neural networks (QNNs) implemented on integrated photonic platforms offer a…

Partially observed control problems are a challenging aspect of reinforcement learning. We extend two related, model-free algorithms for continuous control -- deterministic policy gradient and stochastic value gradient -- to solve partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Nicolas Heess , Jonathan J Hunt , Timothy P Lillicrap , David Silver

The classical simulation of quantum systems typically requires exponential resources. Recently, the introduction of a machine learning-based wavefunction ansatz has led to the ability to solve the quantum many-body problem in regimes that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-24 Joseph Gomes , Keri A. McKiernan , Peter Eastman , Vijay S. Pande

For the last few decades, classical machine learning has allowed us to improve the lives of many through automation, natural language processing, predictive analytics and much more. However, a major concern is the fact that we're fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Arhum Ishtiaq , Sara Mahmood

This paper presents ModelicaGym toolbox that was developed to employ Reinforcement Learning (RL) for solving optimization and control tasks in Modelica models. The developed tool allows connecting models using Functional Mock-up Interface…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Oleh Lukianykhin , Tetiana Bogodorova

Recently the use of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices for machine learning tasks has been proposed. The propositions often perform poorly due to various restrictions. However, the quantum devices should perform well in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Przemysław Sadowski

Quantum machine learning has the potential for a transformative impact across industry sectors and in particular in finance. In our work we look at the problem of hedging where deep reinforcement learning offers a powerful framework for…

Model-independent estimation of the properties of quantum states is a central challenge in quantum technologies, as experimental imperfections, drifts, and imprecise models of the actual quantum dynamics inevitably hinder accurate…

This work proposes an approach that integrates reinforcement learning and model predictive control (MPC) to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems in mixed-logical dynamical systems efficiently. Optimization-based control of such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Photonic reservoir computing is an emergent technology toward beyond-Neumann computing. Although photonic reservoir computing provides superior performance in environments whose characteristics are coincident with the training datasets for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kazutaka Kanno , Makoto Naruse , Atsushi Uchida

While Quantum Machine Learning (QML) holds great potential, its practical realization on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware has been hindered by the limitations of variational quantum circuits (VQCs). Recent evidence suggests…

Deep Reinforcement Learning uses a deep neural network to encode a policy, which achieves very good performance in a wide range of applications but is widely regarded as a black box model. A more interpretable alternative to deep networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Arne Gevaert , Jonathan Peck , Yvan Saeys

Quantum computers, currently in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, have started to provide scientists with a novel tool to explore quantum physics and chemistry. While several electronic systems have been extensively studied,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Yi-Ting Lee , Vijaya Begum-Hudde , Barbara A. Jones , André Schleife

Realization of deep learning with coherent optical field has attracted remarkably attentions presently, which benefits on the fact that optical matrix manipulation can be executed at speed of light with inherent parallel computation as well…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Yong-Liang Xiao , Rongguang Liang , Jianxin Zhong , Xianyu Su , Zhisheng You