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Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

As restricted quantum computers are slowly becoming a reality, the search for meaningful first applications intensifies. In this domain, one of the more investigated approaches is the use of a special type of quantum circuit - a so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Charles Moussa , Jan N. van Rijn , Thomas Bäck , Vedran Dunjko

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) provide expressive probabilistic models by leveraging quantum superposition and entanglement, yet their practical training remains challenging due to highly oscillatory loss landscapes and noise inherent to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jaemin Seo

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is considered to be one of the most promising applications of near term quantum devices. However, the optimization of quantum machine learning models presents numerous challenges arising from the imperfections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Owen Lockwood

Time series prediction is essential for human activities in diverse areas. A common approach to this task is to harness Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). However, while their predictions are quite accurate, their learning process is complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Michał Siemaszko , Adam Buraczewski , Bertrand Le Saux , Magdalena Stobińska

Deep learning has been shown to be able to recognize data patterns better than humans in specific circumstances or contexts. In parallel, quantum computing has demonstrated to be able to output complex wave functions with a few number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Junhua Liu , Kwan Hui Lim , Kristin L. Wood , Wei Huang , Chu Guo , He-Liang Huang

The rapid advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) have led to the emergence of quantum machine learning (QML), which integrates the strengths of both fields. Among QML approaches, variational quantum circuits…

Quantum machine learning (QML) models, like their classical counterparts, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, hindering their secure deployment. Here, we report the first systematic experimental robustness benchmark for 20-qubit quantum…

Variational quantum algorithms are expected to demonstrate the advantage of quantum computing on near-term noisy quantum computers. However, training such variational quantum algorithms suffers from gradient vanishing as the size of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Anbang Wu , Gushu Li , Yuke Wang , Boyuan Feng , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Recurrent neural networks play an important role in both research and industry. With the advent of quantum machine learning, the quantisation of recurrent neural networks has become recently relevant. We propose fully quantum recurrent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 Dmytro Bondarenko , Robert Salzmann , Viktoria-S. Schmiesing

Without large quantum computers to empirically evaluate performance, theoretical frameworks such as the quantum statistical query (QSQ) are a primary tool to study quantum algorithms for learning classical functions and search for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Laura Lewis , Dar Gilboa , Jarrod R. McClean

The noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices enable the implementation of the variational quantum circuit (VQC) for quantum neural networks (QNN). Although the VQC-based QNN has succeeded in many machine learning tasks, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Jun Qi , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Quantum neural networks have emerged as promising quantum machine learning models, leveraging the properties of quantum systems and classical optimization to solve complex problems in physics and beyond. However, previous studies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Mingrui Jing , Erdong Huang , Xiao Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Xin Wang

The rapid development of quantum computers promises transformative impacts across diverse fields of science and technology. Quantum neural networks (QNNs), as a forefront application, hold substantial potential. Despite the multitude of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Lucas Friedrich , Jonas Maziero

The analysis of noisy quantum states prepared on current quantum computers is getting beyond the capabilities of classical computing. Quantum neural networks based on parametrized quantum circuits, measurements and feed-forward can process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Petr Zapletal , Nathan A. McMahon , Michael J. Hartmann

Quantum machine learning has proven to be a fruitful area in which to search for potential applications of quantum computers. This is particularly true for those available in the near term, so called noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Brian Coyle

Classical artificial neural networks have witnessed widespread successes in machine-learning applications. Here, we propose fermion neural networks (FNNs) whose physical properties, such as local density of states or conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Pei-Lin Zheng , Jia-Bao Wang , Yi Zhang

Quantum computing is a new computational paradigm that promises applications in several fields, including machine learning. In the last decade, deep learning, and in particular Convolutional neural networks (CNN), have become essential for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Iordanis Kerenidis , Jonas Landman , Anupam Prakash

Classical Random Neural Networks (RNNs) have demonstrated effective applications in decision making, signal processing, and image recognition tasks. However, their implementation has been limited to deterministic digital systems that output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Debanjan Konar , Erol Gelenbe , Soham Bhandary , Aditya Das Sarma , Attila Cangi

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) are widely regarded as a promising model for Quantum Machine Learning (QML). In this work we tie their heuristic success to two facts. First, that when randomly initialized, they can only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Pablo Bermejo , Paolo Braccia , Manuel S. Rudolph , Zoë Holmes , Lukasz Cincio , M. Cerezo