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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

Neural networks are a promising tool for simulating quantum many body systems. Recently, it has been shown that neural network-based models describe quantum many body systems more accurately when they are constrained to have the correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Christopher Roth , Allan H. MacDonald

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

Incorporating inductive biases into ML models is an active area of ML research, especially when ML models are applied to data about the physical world. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently become a popular method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Savannah Thais , Daniel Murnane

Group symmetry is inherent in a wide variety of data distributions. Data processing that preserves symmetry is described as an equivariant map and often effective in achieving high performance. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-29 Wataru Kumagai , Akiyoshi Sannai

The rising adoption of machine learning in high energy physics and lattice field theory necessitates the re-evaluation of common methods that are widely used in computer vision, which, when applied to problems in physics, can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-12 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

We develop a theory of category-equivariant neural networks (CENNs) that unifies group/groupoid-equivariant networks, poset/lattice-equivariant networks, graph and sheaf neural networks. Equivariance is formulated as naturality in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama

Quantum computing enables quantum neural networks (QNNs) to have great potentials to surpass artificial neural networks (ANNs). The powerful generalization of neural networks is attributed to nonlinear activation functions. Although various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Shilu Yan , Hongsheng Qi , Wei Cui

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

Convolutional neural networks owe much of their success to hard-coding translation equivariance. Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have been proposed as near-term quantum analogues, but the relevant notion of translation depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Chirkov , Igor Lobanov

Machine learning is among the most widely anticipated use cases for near-term quantum computers, however there remain significant theoretical and implementation challenges impeding its scale up. In particular, there is an emerging body of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Maxwell T. West , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman

This study explores the use of equivariant quantum neural networks (QNN) for generating molecular force fields, focusing on the rMD17 dataset. We consider a QNN architecture based on previous research and point out shortcomings in the…

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 advances in deep learning and Transformers have driven major breakthroughs in robotics by employing techniques such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based multimodal perception and decision-making. However,…

Group equivariant neural networks have proven effective in modelling a wide range of tasks where the data lives in a classical geometric space and exhibits well-defined group symmetries. However, these networks are not suitable for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Edward Pearce-Crump

The importance of symmetries has recently been recognized in quantum machine learning from the simple motto: if a task exhibits a symmetry (given by a group $\mathfrak{G}$), the learning model should respect said symmetry. This can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Sujay Kazi , Martin Larocca , M. Cerezo

Entanglement is a physical phenomenon, which has fueled recent successes of quantum algorithms. Although quantum neural networks (QNNs) have shown promising results in solving simple machine learning tasks recently, for the time being, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nanqing Dong , Michael Kampffmeyer , Irina Voiculescu , Eric Xing

Neural networks enjoy widespread success in both research and industry and, with the imminent advent of quantum technology, it is now a crucial challenge to design quantum neural networks for fully quantum learning tasks. Here we propose…

The crucial role played by the underlying symmetries of high energy physics and lattice field theories calls for the implementation of such symmetries in the neural network architectures that are applied to the physical system under…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-16 Srinath Bulusu , Matteo Favoni , Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

Group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) are generalizations of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which excel in a wide range of technical applications by explicitly encoding symmetries, such as rotations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Hannah Lawrence , Kristian Georgiev , Andrew Dienes , Bobak T. Kiani