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Noise and decoherence are two major obstacles to the implementation of large-scale quantum computing. Because of the no-cloning theorem, which says we cannot make an exact copy of an arbitrary quantum state, simple redundancy will not work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Nam H. Nguyen , Elizabeth C. Behrman , James E. Steck

Backpropagation, a foundational algorithm for training artificial neural networks, predominates in contemporary deep learning. Although highly successful, it is widely considered biologically implausible, because it relies on precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Li Ji-An , Marcus K. Benna

Quantum noise is currently limiting efficient quantum information processing and computation. In this work, we consider the tasks of reconstructing and classifying quantum states corrupted by the action of an unknown noisy channel using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Angela Rosy Morgillo , Stefano Mangini , Marco Piastra , Chiara Macchiavello

Deep quantum neural networks may provide a promising way to achieve quantum learning advantage with noisy intermediate scale quantum devices. Here, we use deep quantum feedforward neural networks capable of universal quantum computation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-14 Zidu Liu , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

Learning from quantum data using classical machine learning models has emerged as a promising paradigm toward realizing quantum advantages. Despite extensive analyses on their performance, clean and fully labeled quantum data from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Kosuke Ito , Akira Tanji , Hiroshi Yano , Yudai Suzuki , Naoki Yamamoto

Interest in biologically inspired alternatives to backpropagation is driven by the desire to both advance connections between deep learning and neuroscience and address backpropagation's shortcomings on tasks such as online, continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Jack Lindsey , Ashok Litwin-Kumar

Error correction will add so much overhead to large quantum computations that we suspect the most efficient algorithms will use a classical co-processor to do as much work as possible. We present a method to offload portions of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Samuel Jaques , Craig Gidney

Quantifying and verifying the control level in preparing a quantum state are central challenges in building quantum devices. The quantum state is characterized from experimental measurements, using a procedure known as tomography, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Quoc Hoan Tran , Kohei Nakajima

Neural networks are a promising tool for characterizing intermediate-scale quantum devices from limited amounts of measurement data. A challenging problem in this area is to learn the action of an unknown quantum process on an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yan Zhu , Ya-Dong Wu , Qiushi Liu , Yuexuan Wang , Giulio Chiribella

Self-supervised methods have recently proved to be nearly as effective as supervised ones in various imaging inverse problems, paving the way for learning-based approaches in scientific and medical imaging applications where ground truth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Jérémy Scanvic , Mike Davies , Patrice Abry , Julián Tachella

The loss landscape of Variational Quantum Neural Networks (VQNNs) is characterized by local minima that grow exponentially with increasing qubits. Because of this, it is more challenging to recover information from model gradients during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Georgios Papadopoulos , Shaltiel Eloul , Yash Satsangi , Jamie Heredge , Niraj Kumar , Chun-Fu Chen , Marco Pistoia

We reduce measurement errors in a quantum computer using machine learning techniques. We exploit a simple yet versatile neural network to classify multi-qubit quantum states, which is trained using experimental data. This flexible approach…

We introduce the chi-square test neural network: a single hidden layer backpropagation neural network using chi-square test theorem to redefine the cost function and the error function. The weights and thresholds are modified using standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan Wu , Lingling Li , Lian Li

Modeling quantum many-body systems is enormously challenging due to the exponential scaling of Hilbert dimension with system size. Finding efficient compressions of the wavefunction is key to building scalable models. Here, we introduce…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Christopher Roth

Recurrent neural networks play an important role in both research and industry. With the advent of quantum machine learning, the quantisation of recurrent neural networks has become recently relevant. We propose fully quantum recurrent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 Dmytro Bondarenko , Robert Salzmann , Viktoria-S. Schmiesing

Attempts to apply Neural Networks (NN) to a wide range of research problems have been ubiquitous and plentiful in recent literature. Particularly, the use of deep NNs for understanding complex physical and chemical phenomena has opened a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Arijit Sehanobish , Hector H. Corzo , Onur Kara , David van Dijk

In recent years, advanced deep neural networks have required a large number of parameters for training. Therefore, finding a method to reduce the number of parameters has become crucial for achieving efficient training. This work proposes a…

Mitigating measurement errors in quantum systems without relying on quantum error correction is of critical importance for the practical development of quantum technology. Deep learning-based quantum measurement error mitigation has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 ChangWon Lee , Daniel K. Park

As quantum devices continue to grow in size but remain affected by noise, it is crucial to determine when and how they can outperform classical computers on practical tasks. A central piece in this effort is to develop the most efficient…

Backpropagation is the core learning mechanism underlying deep learning. However, whether and how this algorithm is implemented in the brain remains highly debated. In particular, while forward activations of pretrained models reliably map…