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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

Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are generative models with potential advantages in quantum machine learning, yet their training is fundamentally limited by the barren plateau problem, where gradients vanish exponentially with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Takeshi Kimura , Kohtaro Kato , Masahito Hayashi

Even the most sophisticated artificial neural networks are built by aggregating substantially identical units called neurons. A neuron receives multiple signals, internally combines them, and applies a non-linear function to the resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 Yudong Cao , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum generative models offer a promising new direction in machine learning by leveraging quantum circuits to enhance data generation capabilities. In this study, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical image generation framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Chi-Sheng Chen , Wei An Hou , Hsiang-Wei Hu , Zhen-Sheng Cai

In recent proposals of quantum circuit models for generative tasks, the discussion about their performance has been limited to their ability to reproduce a known target distribution. For example, expressive model families such as Quantum…

Quantum machine learning has emerged as a potential practical application of near-term quantum devices. In this work, we study a two-layer hybrid classical-quantum classifier in which a first layer of quantum stochastic neurons implementing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Ivana Nikoloska , Osvaldo Simeone

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

Recent work on the instantaneous quantum polynomial-time (IQP) quantum-circuit Born machine (QCBM) highlights a promising paradigm for generative modeling: train classically, deploy quantumly. In this setting, the training objective can be…

Artificial neural networks have achieved great success in many fields ranging from image recognition to video understanding. However, its high requirements for computing and memory resources have limited further development on processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Yanxuan Lü , Qing Gao , Jinhu Lü , Maciej Ogorzałek , Jin Zheng

Quantum computing promises to provide machine learning with computational advantages. However, noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices pose engineering challenges to realizing quantum machine learning (QML) advantages. Recently, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Rodrigo Araiza Bravo , Khadijeh Najafi , Xun Gao , Susanne F. Yelin

Quantum generative modeling using quantum circuit Born machines (QCBMs) shows promising potential for practical quantum advantage. However, discovering ans\"atze that are both expressive and hardware-efficient remains a key challenge,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Yaswitha Gujju , Romain Harang , Tetsuo Shibuya

Generative Modelling has become a promising use case for near term quantum computers. In particular, due to the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, quantum computers naturally model and learn probability distributions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Ieva Čepaitė , Brian Coyle , Elham Kashefi

We introduce and analyze a novel quantum machine learning model motivated by convolutional neural networks. Our quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) makes use of only $O(\log(N))$ variational parameters for input sizes of $N$ qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Iris Cong , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) represent a promising approach in quantum machine learning, paving new directions for both quantum and classical data analysis. This approach is particularly attractive due to the absence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Changwon Lee , Israel F. Araujo , Dongha Kim , Junghan Lee , Siheon Park , Ju-Young Ryu , Daniel K. Park

Recent work has proposed and explored using coreset techniques for quantum algorithms that operate on classical data sets to accelerate the applicability of these algorithms on near-term quantum devices. We apply these ideas to Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Joshua Viszlai , Teague Tomesh , Pranav Gokhale , Eric Anschuetz , Frederic T. Chong

Near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum circuits can efficiently implement implicit probabilistic models in discrete spaces, supporting distributions that are practically infeasible to sample from using classical means. One of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Ivana Nikoloska , Osvaldo Simeone

Generative modeling using samples drawn from the probability distribution constitutes a powerful approach for unsupervised machine learning. Quantum mechanical systems can produce probability distributions that exhibit quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Xun Gao , Eric R. Anschuetz , Sheng-Tao Wang , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mikhail D. Lukin

The intrinsic probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics invokes endeavors of designing quantum generative learning models (QGLMs). Despite the empirical achievements, the foundations and the potential advantages of QGLMs remain largely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 Yuxuan Du , Zhuozhuo Tu , Bujiao Wu , Xiao Yuan , Dacheng Tao

This paper initiates the study of quantum computing within the constraints of using a polylogarithmic ($O(\log^k n), k\geq 1$) number of qubits and a polylogarithmic number of computation steps. The current research in the literature has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay Gupta , R. K. P. Zia

Quantum-inspired neural network is one of the interesting researches at the junction of the two fields of quantum computing and deep learning. Several models of quantum-inspired neurons with real parameters have been proposed, which are…