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Quantum computing and AI have found a fruitful intersection in the field of natural language processing. We focus on the recently proposed DisCoCirc framework for natural language, and propose a quantum adaptation, QDisCoCirc. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Tuomas Laakkonen , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Bob Coecke

This paper describes experiments showing that some tasks in natural language processing (NLP) can already be performed using quantum computers, though so far only with small datasets. We demonstrate various approaches to topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Dominic Widdows , Aaranya Alexander , Daiwei Zhu , Chase Zimmerman , Arunava Majumder

We introduce DisCoPy, an open source toolbox for computing with monoidal categories. The library provides an intuitive syntax for defining string diagrams and monoidal functors. Its modularity allows the efficient implementation of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Giovanni de Felice , Alexis Toumi , Bob Coecke

We present the first implementation of text-level quantum natural language processing, a field where quantum computing and AI have found a fruitful intersection. We focus on the QDisCoCirc model, which is underpinned by a compositional…

Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to encoding and understanding the complexity of natural languages through the power of quantum computation. This paper presents a pretrained quantum context-sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Charles M. Varmantchaonala , Niclas Götting , Nils-Erik Schütte , Jean Louis E. K. Fendji , Christopher Gies

We introduce functorial language models: a principled way to compute probability distributions over word sequences given a monoidal functor from grammar to meaning. This yields a method for training categorical compositional distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Alexis Toumi , Alex Koziell-Pipe

As an application domain where the slightest qualitative improvements can yield immense value, finance is a promising candidate for early quantum advantage. Focusing on the rapidly advancing field of Quantum Natural Language Processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jonas Stein , Ivo Christ , Nicolas Kraus , Maximilian Balthasar Mansky , Robert Müller , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Natural language processing (NLP) problems are ubiquitous in classical computing, where they often require significant computational resources to infer sentence meanings. With the appearance of quantum computing hardware and simulators, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Lee J. O'Riordan , Myles Doyle , Fabio Baruffa , Venkatesh Kannan

Quantum machine learning is a promising direction for building more efficient and expressive models, particularly in domains where understanding complex, structured data is critical. We present the Quantum Graph Transformer (QGT), a hybrid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shamminuj Aktar , Andreas Bärtschi , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Stephan Eidenbenz

Sentiment classification is one the best use case of classical natural language processing (NLP) where we can witness its power in various daily life domains such as banking, business and marketing industry. We already know how classical AI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Srinjoy Ganguly , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Luis Miguel Pozo Coronado

The present study aims to explore the feasibility of language translation using quantum natural language processing algorithms on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Classical methods in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mina Abbaszade , Mariam Zomorodi , Vahid Salari , Philip Kurian

Quantum machine learning (QML) is promising for potential speedups and improvements in conventional machine learning (ML) tasks (e.g., classification/regression). The search for ideal QML models is an active research field. This includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Mahabubul Alam , Swaroop Ghosh

DisCoPy is a Python toolkit for computing with monoidal categories. It comes with two flexible data structures for string diagrams: the first one for planar monoidal categories based on lists of layers, the second one for symmetric monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Alexis Toumi , Richie Yeung , Boldizsár Poór , Giovanni de Felice

Category theory has been successfully applied in various domains of science, shedding light on universal principles unifying diverse phenomena and thereby enabling knowledge transfer between them. Applications to machine learning have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Eli Sennesh , Tom Xu , Yoshihiro Maruyama

We present lambeq, the first high-level Python library for Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). The open-source toolkit offers a detailed hierarchy of modules and classes implementing all stages of a pipeline for converting sentences…

In this article, we propose a Category Theory approach to (syntactic) interoperability between linguistic tools. The resulting category consists of textual documents, including any linguistic annotations, NLP tools that analyze texts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Riccardo Del Gratta

We derive the category-theoretic backbone of quantum theory from a process ontology. More specifically, we treat quantum theory as a theory of systems, processes and their interactions. In this first part of a three-part overview, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Bob Coecke , Aleks Kissinger

In recent years, with the development of quantum machine learning, quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained increasing attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and have achieved a series of promising results. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yixiong Chen , Weichuan Fang

Quantum language models are the alternative to classical language models, which borrow concepts and methods from quantum machine learning and computational linguistics. While several quantum natural language processing (QNLP) methods and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jordi Del Castillo , Dan Zhao , Zongrui Pei

Modern quantum programming languages integrate quantum resources and classical control. They must, on the one hand, be linearly typed to reflect the no-cloning property of quantum resources. On the other hand, high-level and practical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Peng Fu , Kohei Kishida , Peter Selinger