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Quantum machine learning (QML), as an interdisciplinary field bridging quantum computing and machine learning, has garnered significant attention in recent years. Currently, the field as a whole faces challenges due to incomplete…

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Quantum State Tomography (QST) is a fundamental technique in Quantum Information Processing (QIP) for reconstructing unknown quantum states. However, the conventional QST methods are limited by the number of measurements required, which…

Quantization and pruning are two essential techniques for compressing neural networks, yet they are often treated independently, with limited theoretical analysis connecting them. This paper introduces a unified framework for post-training…

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While neural networks have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks, accurately quantifying uncertainty in their predictions is essential to ensure their trustworthiness and enable widespread adoption in critical systems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-11 Joseph Wilson , Chris van der Heide , Liam Hodgkinson , Fred Roosta

Despite rapid advances in quantum hardware, noise remains a central obstacle to deploying quantum algorithms on near-term devices. In particular, random coherent errors that accumulate during circuit execution constitute a dominant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Suying Liu , Yulong Dong , Dong An , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Deep neural networks have been applied in many applications exhibiting extraordinary abilities in the field of computer vision. However, complex network architectures challenge efficient real-time deployment and require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tailin Liang , John Glossner , Lei Wang , Shaobo Shi , Xiaotong Zhang

Gradient descent methods have long been the de facto standard for training deep neural networks. Millions of training samples are fed into models with billions of parameters, which are slowly updated over hundreds of epochs. Recently, it's…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are effective for processing graph-structured data but face challenges with large graphs due to high memory requirements and inefficient sparse matrix operations on GPUs. Quantum Computing (QC) offers a…

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Analog quantum simulators can directly emulate time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics, enabling the exploration of diverse physical phenomena such as phase transitions, quench dynamics, and non-equilibrium processes. Realizing accurate analog…

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We investigate pruning and quantization for deep neural networks. Our goal is to achieve extremely high sparsity for quantized networks to enable implementation on low cost and low power accelerator hardware. In a practical scenario, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Po-Hsiang Yu , Sih-Sian Wu , Jan P. Klopp , Liang-Gee Chen , Shao-Yi Chien

Neural networks (NNs) have been extremely successful across many tasks in machine learning. Quantization of NN weights has become an important topic due to its impact on their energy efficiency, inference time and deployment on hardware.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

This paper presents a novel network compression framework Kernel Quantization (KQ), targeting to efficiently convert any pre-trained full-precision convolutional neural network (CNN) model into a low-precision version without significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhongzhi Yu , Yemin Shi , Tiejun Huang , Yizhou Yu

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising candidate for quantum applications on near-term Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Despite a lot of empirical studies and recent progress in theoretical understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Xuchen You , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Xiaodi Wu

Determining the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian is a central problem across physics, chemistry, and combinatorial optimization, yet it is often classically intractable due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

Since classical machine learning has become a powerful tool for developing data-driven algorithms, quantum machine learning is expected to similarly impact the development of quantum algorithms. The literature reflects a mutually beneficial…

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Quantum Machine Learning is an emerging sub-field in machine learning where one of the goals is to perform pattern recognition tasks by encoding data into quantum states. This extension from classical to quantum domain has been made…

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We present, QP-SBGD, a novel layer-wise stochastic optimiser tailored towards training neural networks with binary weights, known as binary neural networks (BNNs), on quantum hardware. BNNs reduce the computational requirements and energy…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCNs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Xin Qian , Diego Klabjan

Quantum machine learning algorithms have emerged to be a promising alternative to their classical counterparts as they leverage the power of quantum computers. Such algorithms have been developed to solve problems like electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Manas Sajjan , Shree Hari Sureshbabu , Sabre Kais