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Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are being highlighted as key quantum algorithms for demonstrating quantum advantage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, which are limited to executing shallow quantum circuits because of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Shota Sugawara , Kazuki Inomata , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Synge Todo

Variational quantum circuits are used in quantum machine learning and variational quantum simulation tasks. Designing good variational circuits or predicting how well they perform for given learning or optimization tasks is still unclear.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Junyu Liu , Francesco Tacchino , Jennifer R. Glick , Liang Jiang , Antonio Mezzacapo

Recent work has begun to explore the potential of parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) as general function approximators. In this work, we propose a quantum-classical deep network structure to enhance classical CNN model discriminability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Tong Dou , Guofeng Zhang , Wei Cui

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 G. Maragkopoulos , A. Mandilara , A. Tsili , D. Syvridis

We introduce a general framework called neural network (NN) encoded variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), or NN-VQA for short, to address the challenges of implementing VQAs on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Jiaqi Miao , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shi-Xin Zhang

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has recently emerged as a highly promising research frontier. Within this domain, Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs),characterized by Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) at their core and featuring layers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Ban Q. Tran , Duong M. Chu , Hai T. D. Pham , Viet Q. Nguyen , Quan A. Pham , Susan Mengel

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 Machine Learning algorithms based on Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) are important candidates for useful application of quantum computing. It is known that a VQC is a linear model in a feature space determined by its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Slimane Thabet , Léo Monbroussou , Eliott Z. Mamon , Jonas Landman

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are the quantum analog of classical neural networks (NNs). A VQA consists of a parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) which is composed of multiple layers of ansatzes (simpler PQCs, which are an analogy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Afrad Basheer , Yuan Feng , Christopher Ferrie , Sanjiang Li

Many recent machine learning tasks resort to quantum computing to improve classification accuracy and training efficiency by taking advantage of quantum mechanics, known as quantum machine learning (QML). The variational quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Jindi Wu , Zeyi Tao , Qun Li

We introduce Genetic Transformer Assisted Quantum Neural Networks (GTQNNs), a hybrid learning framework that combines a transformer encoder with a shallow variational quantum circuit and automatically fine tunes the circuit via the NSGA-II…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Haiyan Wang

One of the main important features of the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era is the correct evaluation and consideration of errors. In this paper, we analyze the main sources of errors in current (IBM) quantum computers and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Unai Aseguinolaza , Nahual Sobrino , Gabriel Sobrino , Joaquim Jornet-Somoza , Juan Borge

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) and their applications in the field of quantum machine learning through parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) are thought to be one major way of leveraging noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Dirk Heimann , Hans Hohenfeld , Gunnar Schönhoff , Elie Mounzer , Frank Kirchner

Parameterized quantum circuits can be used as quantum neural networks and have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts when trained for addressing learning problems. To date, much of the results on their performance on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Junyu Liu , Khadijeh Najafi , Kunal Sharma , Francesco Tacchino , Liang Jiang , Antonio Mezzacapo

Applying low-depth quantum neural networks (QNNs), variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are both promising and challenging in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era: Despite its remarkable progress, criticisms on the efficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Huan-Yu Liu , Zhao-Yun Chen , Tai-Ping Sun , Cheng Xue , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Recent developments in quantum computing and machine learning have propelled the interdisciplinary study of quantum machine learning. Sequential modeling is an important task with high scientific and commercial value. Existing VQC or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Daniel Fry , Amol Deshmukh , Vladimir Rastunkov , Charlee Stefanski

The neural network and quantum computing are both significant and appealing fields, with their interactive disciplines promising for large-scale computing tasks that are untackled by conventional computers. However, both developments are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Feihong Shen , Jun Liu

Driven by the significant advantages offered by quantum computing, research in quantum machine learning has increased in recent years. While quantum speed-up has been demonstrated in some applications of quantum machine learning, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Shaozhi Li , M Sabbir Salek , Yao Wang , Mashrur Chowdhury

It is challenging to reduce the complexity of neural networks while maintaining their generalization ability and robustness, especially for practical applications. Conventional solutions for this problem incorporate quantum-inspired neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andi Chen

Combining classical optimization with parameterized quantum circuit evaluation, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are among the most promising algorithms in near-term quantum computing. Similar to neural networks (NNs), VQAs iteratively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhehao Yi , Yanying Liang , Haozhen Situ