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Quantum computing improves substantially on known classical algorithms for various important problems, but the nature of the relationship between quantum and classical computing is not yet fully understood. This relationship can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Jacques Carette , Chris Heunen , Robin Kaarsgaard , Neil J. Ross , Amr Sabry

Quantum machine learning techniques are commonly considered one of the most promising candidates for demonstrating practical quantum advantage. In particular, quantum kernel methods have been demonstrated to be able to learn certain…

No-regret learning dynamics ensure that a learner asymptotically achieves an average reward no worse than that of any fixed strategy. This no-regret guarantee does not determine the value of the asymptotic average reward. Indeed, it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Hassan Abdelraouf , Jeff S. Shamma

Variational quantum algorithms dominate gate-based applications of modern quantum processors. The so called, {\it layer-wise trainability conjecture} appears in various works throughout the variational quantum computing literature. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Ernesto Campos , Aly Nasrallah , Jacob Biamonte

We aim to use quantum machine learning to detect various anomalies in image inspection by using small size data. Assuming the possibility that the expressive power of the quantum kernel space is superior to that of the classical kernel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Takao Tomono , Kazuya Tsujimura

One of the key challenges in quantum machine learning is finding relevant machine learning tasks with a provable quantum advantage. A natural candidate for this is learning unknown Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we tackle the supervised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Alice Barthe , Mahtab Yaghubi Rad , Michele Grossi , Vedran Dunjko

Quantum machine learning is a rapidly evolving field of research that could facilitate important applications for quantum computing and also significantly impact data-driven sciences. In our work, based on various arguments from complexity…

Quantum machine learning is a discipline that holds the promise of revolutionizing data processing and problem-solving. However, dissipation and noise arising from the coupling with the environment are commonly perceived as major obstacles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 María Laura Olivera-Atencio , Lucas Lamata , Jesús Casado-Pascual

Quantum kernel methods promise enhanced expressivity for learning structured data, but their usefulness has been limited by kernel concentration and barren plateaus. Both effects are mathematically equivalent and suppress trainability. We…

We discuss efficient quantum logic circuits which perform two tasks: (i) implementing generic quantum computations and (ii) initializing quantum registers. In contrast to conventional computing, the latter task is nontrivial because the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vivek V. Shende , Stephen S. Bullock , Igor L. Markov

Any potential application of quantum computing, once encoded as a quantum circuit, needs to be compiled in order to be executed on a quantum computer. Deciding which qubit technology, which device, which compiler, and which corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Nils Quetschlich , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Training machine learning models in a meaningful order, from the easy samples to the hard ones, using curriculum learning can provide performance improvements over the standard training approach based on random data shuffling, without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Petru Soviany , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Paolo Rota , Nicu Sebe

A central aspect for operating future quantum computers is quantum circuit optimization, i.e., the search for efficient realizations of quantum algorithms given the device capabilities. In recent years, powerful approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Thomas Fösel , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Florian Marquardt , Li Li

There is no free lunch, no single learning algorithm that will outperform other algorithms on all data. In practice different approaches are tried and the best algorithm selected. An alternative solution is to build new algorithms on demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Włodzisław Duch , Karol Grudzińsk

Generalisation in machine learning often relies on the ability to encode structures present in data into an inductive bias of the model class. To understand the power of quantum machine learning, it is therefore crucial to identify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Joseph Bowles , Victoria J Wright , Máté Farkas , Nathan Killoran , Maria Schuld

Quantum computing promises transformational gains for solving some problems, but little to none for others. For anyone hoping to use quantum computers now or in the future, it is important to know which problems will benefit. In this paper,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Sukwoong Choi , William S. Moses , Neil Thompson

Major obstacles remain to the implementation of macroscopic quantum computing: hardware problems of noise, decoherence, and scaling; software problems of error correction; and, most important, algorithm construction. Finding truly quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Nathan Thompson , James Steck , Elizabeth Behrman

One of the most important properties of classical neural networks is how surprisingly trainable they are, though their training algorithms typically rely on optimizing complicated, nonconvex loss functions. Previous results have shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Eric R. Anschuetz , Bobak T. Kiani

Unsupervised training of generative models is a machine learning task that has many applications in scientific computing. In this work we evaluate the efficacy of using quantum circuit-based generative models to generate synthetic data of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Andrea Delgado , Kathleen E. Hamilton

A common assumption exists according to which machine learning models improve their performance when they have more data to learn from. In this study, the authors wished to clarify the dilemma by performing an empirical experiment utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Antti Kariluoto , Arto Pärnänen , Joni Kultanen , Jukka Soininen , Pekka Abrahamsson