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A method is presented for accelerating inference in transformer language models by exploiting the low effective rank of the token activation manifold at each layer. The method decomposes each activation vector into a subspace component and…

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In quantum kernel learning, the primary method involves using a quantum computer to calculate the inner product between feature vectors, thereby obtaining a Gram matrix used as a kernel in machine learning models such as support vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Hiroshi Yamauchi , Tomah Sogabe , Rodney Van Meter

By means of a simple example it is demonstrated that the task of finding and identifying certain patterns in an otherwise (macroscopically) unstructured picture (data set) can be accomplished efficiently by a quantum computer. Employing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Schützhold

In the last few years, quantum computing and machine learning fostered rapid developments in their respective areas of application, introducing new perspectives on how information processing systems can be realized and programmed. The…

We present Inferflow, an efficient and highly configurable inference engine for large language models (LLMs). With Inferflow, users can serve most of the common transformer models by simply modifying some lines in corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shuming Shi , Enbo Zhao , Deng Cai , Leyang Cui , Xinting Huang , Huayang Li

Transformers have emerged as the underpinning architecture for Large Language Models (LLMs). In generative language models, the inference process involves two primary phases: prompt processing and token generation. Token generation, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Muhammad Adnan , Akhil Arunkumar , Gaurav Jain , Prashant J. Nair , Ilya Soloveychik , Purushotham Kamath

High-throughput approximations of quantum mechanics calculations and combinatorial experiments have been traditionally used to reduce the search space of possible molecules, drugs and materials. However, the interplay of structural and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Alain Tchagang , Julio Valdés

As the most central and computationally intensive component of deep neural networks, the execution efficiency of matrix multiplication directly determines the training and inference performance of models. Harnessing the parallel processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Jiaqi Yao , Tianjian Huang , Zipeng Cai , Ding Liu

Modern large language models (LLMs) excel at tasks that require storing and retrieving knowledge, such as factual recall and question answering. Transformers are central to this capability because they can encode information during training…

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We show that a constant number of self-attention layers can efficiently simulate, and be simulated by, a constant number of communication rounds of Massively Parallel Computation. As a consequence, we show that logarithmic depth is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Clayton Sanford , Daniel Hsu , Matus Telgarsky

In recent times, Large Language Models (LLMs) have captured a global spotlight and revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing. One of the factors attributed to the effectiveness of LLMs is the model architecture used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Oluwaseyi Ogunfowora , Homayoun Najjaran

Large Language Models (LLMs) have propelled groundbreaking advancements across several domains and are commonly used for text generation applications. However, the computational demands of these complex models pose significant challenges,…

Quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms have demonstrated early promise across hardware platforms, but remain difficult to interpret due to the inherent opacity of quantum state evolution. Widely used classical interpretability methods,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Nicholas S. DiBrita , Jason Han , Younghyun Cho , Hengrui Luo , Tirthak Patel

A major limitation for the broader scope of problems solvable by transformers is the quadratic scaling of computational complexity with input size. In this study, we investigate the recurrent memory augmentation of pre-trained transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Aydar Bulatov , Yuri Kuratov , Yermek Kapushev , Mikhail S. Burtsev

Prompt engineering has emerged as a powerful technique for guiding large language models (LLMs) toward desired responses, significantly enhancing their performance across diverse tasks. Beyond their role as static predictors, LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ryumei Nakada , Wenlong Ji , Tianxi Cai , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

Research and usage of artificial intelligence, particularly generative and large language models, have rapidly progressed over the last years. This has, however, given rise to issues due to high energy consumption. While quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Frederik F. Flöther , Jan Mikolon , Maria Longobardi

Many standard linear algebra problems can be solved on a quantum computer by using recently developed quantum linear algebra algorithms that make use of block encodings and quantum eigenvalue/singular value transformations. A block encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Daan Camps , Lin Lin , Roel Van Beeumen , Chao Yang

Quantum machine learning has the potential for broad industrial applications, and the development of quantum algorithms for improving the performance of neural networks is of particular interest given the central role they play in machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jonathan Allcock , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Iordanis Kerenidis , Shengyu Zhang

The transformer is a neural network component that can be used to learn useful representations of sequences or sets of data-points. The transformer has driven recent advances in natural language processing, computer vision, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Richard E. Turner

Quantum embedding with transformers is a novel and promising architecture for quantum machine learning to deliver exceptional capability on near-term devices or simulators. The research incorporated a vision transformer (ViT) to advance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Hao-Yuan Chen , Yen-Jui Chang , Shih-Wei Liao , Ching-Ray Chang