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Double Q-learning is a classical control algorithm that mitigates the maximization bias of Q-learning. To do so, it explicitly trains two independent action-value functions and uses them to decouple action-selection and action-evaluation…

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While differentiable control has emerged as a powerful paradigm combining model-free flexibility with model-based efficiency, the iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) remains underexplored as a differentiable component. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shuyuan Wang , Philip D. Loewen , Michael Forbes , Bhushan Gopaluni , Wei Pan

Quantum Local Search (QLS) is a promising approach that employs small-scale quantum computers to tackle large combinatorial optimization problems through local search on quantum hardware, starting from an initial point. However, the random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Chen-Yu Liu , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Closed loop quantum control uses measurement to control the dynamics of a quantum system to achieve either a desired target state or target dynamics. In the case when the quantum Hamiltonian is quadratic in ${x}$ and ${p}$, there are known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Sangkha Borah , Bijita Sarma , Michael Kewming , Gerard J. Milburn , Jason Twamley

The model-driven power allocation (PA) algorithms in the wireless cellular networks with interfering multiple-access channel (IMAC) have been investigated for decades. Nowadays, the data-driven model-free machine learning-based approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Fan Meng , Peng Chen , Lenan Wu

One of the challenges currently facing the quantum computing community is the design of quantum circuits which can efficiently run on near-term quantum computers, known as the quantum compiling problem. Algorithms such as the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Romi Lifshitz

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) models, despite their efficiency in learning an optimal policy in static environments, easily loses previously learned knowledge (i.e., catastrophic forgetting). It leads RL models to poor performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Wonseo Jang , Dongjae Kim

Quantum machine learning -- and specifically Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) -- offers a powerful, flexible paradigm for programming near-term quantum computers, with applications in chemistry, metrology, materials science, data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 M. Bilkis , M. Cerezo , Guillaume Verdon , Patrick J. Coles , Lukasz Cincio

Robust and high-precision quantum control is crucial but challenging for scalable quantum computation and quantum information processing. Traditional adiabatic control suffers severe limitations on gate performance imposed by…

Due to its property of not requiring prior knowledge of the environment, reinforcement learning has significant potential for quantum control problems. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of continuous control policies based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Shumin Zhou , Hailan Ma , Sen Kuang , Daoyi Dong

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is gaining attention as a potential approach to design trajectories for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used as flying access points in the context of cellular or Internet of Things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert

Hybrid High-performance Computing (HPC)-quantum workloads based on circuit cutting decompose large quantum circuits into independent fragments, but existing frameworks tightly couple cutting logic to execution orchestration, preventing HPC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ricard S. García-Raigada , Josep Jorba , Sergio Iserte

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are the quantum analog of classical neural networks (NNs). A VQA consists of a parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) which is composed of multiple layers of ansatzes (simpler PQCs, which are an analogy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Afrad Basheer , Yuan Feng , Christopher Ferrie , Sanjiang Li

Designing quantum neural networks (QNNs) that are both accurate and deployable on NISQ hardware is challenging. Handcrafted ansatze must balance expressivity, trainability, and resource use, while limited qubits often necessitate circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Kooshan Maleki , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Infrastructure systems are critical in modern communities but are highly susceptible to various natural and man-made disasters. Efficient post-disaster recovery requires repair-scheduling approaches under the limitation of capped resources…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Huangbin Liang , Beatriz Moya , Francisco Chinesta , Eleni Chatzi

Quantum machine learning models that leverage quantum circuits as quantum feature maps (QFMs) are recognized for their enhanced expressive power in learning tasks. Such models have demonstrated rigorous end-to-end quantum speedups for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Nasa Matsumoto , Quoc Hoan Tran , Koki Chinzei , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

Designing and optimizing task-specific quantum circuits are crucial to leverage the advantage of quantum computing. Recent large language model (LLM)-based quantum circuit generation has emerged as a promising automatic solution. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Cong Yu , Valter Uotila , Shilong Deng , Qingyuan Wu , Tuo Shi , Songlin Jiang , Lei You , Bo Zhao

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), acting as a novel and powerful paradigm for quantum optimal control, offers transformative opportunities for advancing neutral-atom quantum computing. In this work, we theoretically demonstrate a DRL-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yue Cai , Hanlin Zhang , Keye Zhang , Jing Qian

Despite remarkable successes in solving various complex decision-making tasks, training an imitation learning (IL) algorithm with deep neural networks (DNNs) suffers from the high computation burden. In this work, we propose quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-06 Zhihao Cheng , Kaining Zhang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven itself as a powerful tool for the discovery of quantum circuits and quantum protocols. We have recently shown that including composite quantum gates -- referred to as ``gadgets'' -- in the action space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Oleg M. Yevtushenko , Florian Marquardt