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Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is considered to be one of the most promising applications of near term quantum devices. However, the optimization of quantum machine learning models presents numerous challenges arising from the imperfections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Owen Lockwood

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs), or the so-called quantum neural-networks, are predicted to be one of the most important near-term quantum applications, not only because of their similar promises as classical neural-networks, but also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Shaopeng Zhu , Shih-Han Hung , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Xiaodi Wu

Reinforcement learning is a growing field in AI with a lot of potential. Intelligent behavior is learned automatically through trial and error in interaction with the environment. However, this learning process is often costly. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Nico Meyer , Daniel D. Scherer , Axel Plinge , Christopher Mutschler , Michael J. Hartmann

The paradigm of variational quantum classifiers (VQCs) encodes \textit{classical information} as quantum states, followed by quantum processing and then measurements to generate classical predictions. VQCs are promising candidates for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Hideyuki Miyahara , Vwani Roychowdhury

Leveraging the extraordinary phenomena of quantum superposition and quantum correlation, quantum computing offers unprecedented potential for addressing challenges beyond the reach of classical computers. This paper tackles two pivotal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Ming-Hao Wang , Hua Lu

Quantum processors promise a paradigm shift in high-performance computing which needs to be assessed by accurate benchmarking measures. In this work, we introduce a new benchmark for variational quantum algorithm (VQA), recently proposed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Walter Vinci , Alireza Shabani

Parametrised quantum circuits offer expressive and data-efficient representations for machine learning. Due to quantum states residing in a high-dimensional Hilbert space, parametrised quantum circuits have a natural interpretation in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 David M. Bossens , Kishor Bharti , Jayne Thompson

Recent days have witnessed significant interests in applying quantum-enhanced techniques for solving a variety of machine learning tasks. Variational methods that use quantum resources of imperfect quantum devices with the help of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Hiroshi Yano , Yudai Suzuki , Kohei M. Itoh , Rudy Raymond , Naoki Yamamoto

The current generation of quantum computing technologies call for quantum algorithms that require a limited number of qubits and quantum gates, and which are robust against errors. A suitable design approach are variational circuits where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Maria Schuld , Alex Bocharov , Krysta Svore , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum machine learning (QML) has been identified as one of the key fields that could reap advantages from near-term quantum devices, next to optimization and quantum chemistry. Research in this area has focused primarily on variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Andrea Skolik , Sofiene Jerbi , Vedran Dunjko

This research delves into the role of the quantum Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) in enhancing the performance of Parameterized Quantum Circuit (PQC)-based reinforcement learning agents. While previous studies have highlighted the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 André Sequeira , Luis Paulo Santos , Luis Soares Barbosa

Variational quantum algorithms (VQA) have emerged as a promising quantum alternative for solving optimization and machine learning problems using parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs). The design of these circuits influences the ability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Alexander Benítez-Buenache , Queralt Portell-Montserrat

We propose Q-Policy, a hybrid quantum-classical reinforcement learning (RL) framework that mathematically accelerates policy evaluation and optimization by exploiting quantum computing primitives. Q-Policy encodes value functions in quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kalyan Cherukuri , Aarav Lala , Yash Yardi

This paper investigates the integration of quantum computing into offline reinforcement learning and the deployment of the resulting quantum policy in a real-time control hardware realization of the cart-pole system. Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yize Sun , Mohamad Hagog , Marc Weber , Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Volker Tresp , Yunpu Ma

Variational quantum algorithm (VQA), which is comprised of a classical optimizer and a parameterized quantum circuit, emerges as one of the most promising approaches for harvesting the power of quantum computers in the noisy intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Samuel Stein , Yufei Ding , Nathan Wiebe , Bo Peng , Karol Kowalski , Nathan Baker , James Ang , Ang Li

Due to the immense potential of quantum computers and the significant computing overhead required in machine learning applications, the variational quantum classifier (VQC) has received a lot of interest recently for image classification.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Ruiyang Qin , Zhiding Liang , Jinglei Cheng , Peter Kogge , Yiyu Shi

Deep learning is a modern approach to realize artificial intelligence. Many frameworks exist to implement the machine learning task; however, performance is limited by computing resources. Using a quantum computer to accelerate training is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Zhao-Yun Chen , Cheng Xue , Si-Ming Chen , Guo-Ping Guo

The comparative evaluation between classical and quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) paradigms was conducted to investigate their convergence behavior, robustness under observational noise, and computational efficiency in a benchmark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut , Nyi Wunna Tun

Cryptanalysis on standard quantum cryptographic systems generally involves finding optimal adversarial attack strategies on the underlying protocols. The core principle of modelling quantum attacks in many cases reduces to the adversary's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Brian Coyle , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi , Niraj Kumar

This paper explores the application of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) for solving offline contextual bandit problems in industrial optimization tasks. Using the Industrial Benchmark (IB) environment, we evaluate the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Lukas Schulte , Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Thomas A. Runkler