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A novel class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms based on the variational approach have recently emerged from separate proposals addressing, for example, quantum chemistry and combinatorial problems. These algorithms provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Mikhail Smelyanskiy

For a large number of tasks, quantum computing demonstrates the potential for exponential acceleration over classical computing. In the NISQ era, variable-component subcircuits enable applications of quantum computing. To reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Junhan Qin

Quantum computers have the potential to deliver speed-ups for solving certain important problems that are intractable for classical counterparts, making them a promising avenue for advancing modern computation. However, many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kang-Min Hu , Min Namkung , Hyang-Tag Lim

The promise of quantum computing to address complex problems requiring high computational resources has long been hindered by the intrinsic and demanding requirements of quantum hardware development. Nonetheless, the current state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Daniel F Perez-Ramirez

There has been much recent interest in near-term applications of quantum computers, i.e., using quantum circuits that have short decoherence times due to hardware limitations. Variational quantum algorithms (VQA), wherein an optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Georgios Korpas , Jakub Marecek , Elton Yechao Zhu

Finding solutions to systems of linear equations is a common prob\-lem in many areas of science and engineering, with much potential for a speedup on quantum devices. While the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) quantum algorithm yields up to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Aidan Pellow-Jarman , Ilya Sinayskiy , Anban Pillay , Francesco Petruccione

Although quantum computing holds promise for solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs), the limited qubit capacity of NISQ hardware makes large-scale instances intractable. Conventional methods attempt to bridge this gap through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yuhan Huang , Siyuan Jin , Yichi Zhang , Qi Zhao , Jun Qi , Qiming Shao

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are leading strategies for using near-term quantum devices, with a well-studied bottleneck being their trainability. Standard expectation-value objectives with expressive circuits frequently encounter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yixian Qiu , Josep Lumbreras , Xiufan Li , Patrick Rebentrost

Variational quantum algorithms are a leading candidate for early applications on noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. These algorithms depend on a classical optimization outer-loop that minimizes some function of a parameterized…

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

Gaussian processes are widely known for their ability to provide probabilistic predictions in supervised machine learning models. Their non-parametric nature and flexibility make them particularly effective for regression tasks. However,…

Classical machine learning theory and theory of quantum computations are among of the most rapidly developing scientific areas in our days. In recent years, researchers investigated if quantum computing can help to improve classical machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 D. V. Fastovets , Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , V. F. Lukichev

Quantum machine learning aims to release the prowess of quantum computing to improve machine learning methods. By combining quantum computing methods with classical neural network techniques we aim to foster an increase of performance in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Andrew Blance , Michael Spannowsky

Works in quantum machine learning (QML) over the past few years indicate that QML algorithms can function just as well as their classical counterparts, and even outperform them in some cases. Among the corpus of recent work, many current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Joseph Lindsay , Ramtin Zand

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which models uncertain phenomena as the time evolution of random variables, are exploited in various fields of natural and social sciences such as finance. Since SDEs rarely admit analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Kenji Kubo , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Suguru Endo , Shota Nagayama

Variational quantum algorithms hold great promise for unlocking the power of near-term quantum processors, yet high measurement costs, barren plateaus, and challenging optimization landscapes frequently hinder them. Here, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mengzhen Ren , Yu-Cheng Chen , Yangsen Ye , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Alice Hu , Chang-Yu Hsieh

Variational quantum machine learning algorithms have been proposed as promising tools for time series prediction, with the potential to handle complex sequential data more effectively than classical approaches. However, their practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Tobias Fellner , David Kreplin , Samuel Tovey , Christian Holm

We present a hybrid classical-quantum computing paradigm where the quantum part strictly runs within the coherence time of a quantum annealer, a method we call variational coherent quantum annealing (VCQA). It involves optimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 N. Barraza , G. Alvarado Barrios , I. Montalban , E. Solano , F. Albarrán-Arriagada

Quantum variational circuits have gained significant attention due to their applications in the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and quantum machine learning research. This work introduces a novel class of classical probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gal Weitz , Lirandë Pira , Chris Ferrie , Joshua Combes

Hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithms such as the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) are promising applications for noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 William M. Kirby , Peter J. Love