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Recent advancements in Quantum Computing and Machine Learning have increased attention to Quantum Machine Learning (QML), which aims to develop machine learning models by exploiting the quantum computing paradigm. One of the widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Antonio Tudisco , Andrea Marchesin , Maurizio Zamboni , Mariagrazia Graziano , Giovanna Turvani

Currently, quantum hardware is restrained by noises and qubit numbers. Thus, a quantum virtual machine that simulates operations of a quantum computer on classical computers is a vital tool for developing and testing quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Chuong Nguyen Quoc , Le Bin Ho , Lan Nguyen Tran , Hung Q. Nguyen

Quantum machine learning algorithms aim to take advantage of quantum computing to improve classical machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we have applied a quantum machine learning algorithm, the variational quantum classifier for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-10 He-Xing Yin , Zhi-Yuan Hu , Huan-Huan Zeng , Jia-Bao Guan , Ji-ke Wang

Quantum algorithms based on the variational principle have found applications in diverse areas with a huge flexibility. But as the circuit size increases the variational landscapes become flattened, causing the so-called Barren plateau…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Fabio Tarocco , Davide Materia , Leonardo Ratini , Leonardo Guidoni

Quantum processors may enhance machine learning by mapping high-dimensional data onto quantum systems for processing. Conventional feature maps, for encoding data onto a quantum circuit are currently impractical, as the number of entangling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Utkarsh Singh , Jean-Frédéric Laprade , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Variational quantum machine learning is an extensively studied application of near-term quantum computers. The success of variational quantum learning models crucially depends on finding a suitable parametrization of the model that encodes…

Quantum machine learning, focusing on quantum neural networks (QNNs), remains a vastly uncharted field of study. Current QNN models primarily employ variational circuits on an ansatz or a quantum feature map, often requiring multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Utkarsh Singh , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

In recent times, Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) have been widely adopted to different tasks in machine learning such as Combinatorial Optimization and Supervised Learning. With the growing interest, it is pertinent to study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Dheeraj Peddireddy , Vipul Bansal , Vaneet Aggarwal

Policy gradient methods are a powerful family of reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous control that optimize a policy directly. However, standard first-order methods often converge slowly. Second-order methods can accelerate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Amirreza Valaei , Arash Bahari Kordabad , Sadegh Soudjani

A school of thought contends that human decision making exhibits quantum-like logic. While it is not known whether the brain may indeed be driven by actual quantum mechanisms, some researchers suggest that the decision logic is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Alex Bocharov , Michael Freedman , Eshan Kemp , Martin Roetteler , Krysta M. Svore

Inspired by the possibility that generative models based on quantum circuits can provide a useful inductive bias for sequence modeling tasks, we propose an efficient training algorithm for a subset of classically simulable quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 James Stokes , John Terilla

Quantum computing offers efficient encapsulation of high-dimensional states. In this work, we propose a novel quantum reinforcement learning approach that combines the Advantage Actor-Critic algorithm with variational quantum circuits by…

Quantum computers can efficiently sample from probability distributions that are believed to be classically intractable, providing a foundation for quantum generative modeling. However, practical training of such models remains challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Maria Demidik , Cenk Tüysüz , Michele Grossi , Karl Jansen

Recent developments in Quantum Machine Learning have seen the introduction of several models to generalize the classical perceptron to the quantum regime. The capabilities of these quantum models need to be determined precisely in order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Fabio Benatti , Giovanni Gramegna , Stefano Mancini

Quantum machine learning models based on parametrized quantum circuits, also called quantum neural networks (QNNs), are considered to be among the most promising candidates for applications on near-term quantum devices. Here we explore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Chris Mingard , Jessica Pointing , Charles London , Yoonsoo Nam , Ard A. Louis

Frequency control in power systems is critical to maintaining stability and preventing blackouts. Traditional methods like meta-heuristic algorithms and machine learning face limitations in real-time applicability and scalability. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Younes Ghazagh Jahed , Alireza Khatiri

Current experimental quantum computing devices are limited by noise, mainly originating from entangling gates. If an efficient gate sequence for an operation is unknown, one often employs layered parameterized quantum circuits, especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Tom R. Rieckmann , Stefan Scheel , A. Douglas K. Plato

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) leverage quantum entanglement and superposition to enable large-scale parallel linear computation, offering a potential solution to the scalability limits of classical deep learning. However, their practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Pei-Kun Yang

Consider the problem of training robustly capable agents. One approach is to generate a diverse collection of agent polices. Training can then be viewed as a quality diversity (QD) optimization problem, where we search for a collection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Bryon Tjanaka , Matthew C. Fontaine , Julian Togelius , Stefanos Nikolaidis