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We introduce theoretically grounded Continuous Semi-Quantum Boltzmann Machines (CSQBMs) that supports continuous-action reinforcement learning. By combining exponential-family priors over visible units with quantum Boltzmann distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Thore Gerlach , Michael Schenk , Verena Kain

This paper investigates photonic continuous-variable Born machines (CVBMs), which utilize photonic quantum states as resources for continuous probability distributions. Implementing exact gradient descent in the CVBM training process is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Zoltán Kolarovszki , Dániel T. R. Nagy , Zoltán Zimborás

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum computing offers a promising framework for scalable quantum machine learning, leveraging optical systems with infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. While discrete-variable (DV) quantum neural networks have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Daniel Alejandro Lopez , Oscar Montiel , Oscar Castillo , Miguel Lopez-Montiel

Generative Modelling has become a promising use case for near term quantum computers. In particular, due to the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, quantum computers naturally model and learn probability distributions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Ieva Čepaitė , Brian Coyle , Elham Kashefi

Inspired by the success of Boltzmann Machines based on classical Boltzmann distribution, we propose a new machine learning approach based on quantum Boltzmann distribution of a transverse-field Ising Hamiltonian. Due to the non-commutative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mohammad H. Amin , Evgeny Andriyash , Jason Rolfe , Bohdan Kulchytskyy , Roger Melko

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum computing has shown great potential for building neural network models. These neural networks can have different levels of quantum-classical hybridization depending on the complexity of the problem. Previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Shikha Bangar , Leanto Sunny , Kubra Yeter-Aydeniz , George Siopsis

Quantum computers offer the potential for efficiently sampling from complex probability distributions, attracting increasing interest in generative modeling within quantum machine learning. This surge in interest has driven the development…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Maria Demidik , Cenk Tüysüz , Nico Piatkowski , Michele Grossi , Karl Jansen

Quantum Boltzmann machines are natural quantum generalizations of Boltzmann machines that are expected to be more expressive than their classical counterparts, as evidenced both numerically for small systems and asymptotically under various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Eric R. Anschuetz , Yudong Cao

A fundamental limitation of probabilistic deep learning is its predominant reliance on Gaussian priors. This simplistic assumption prevents models from accurately capturing the complex, non-Gaussian landscapes of natural data, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng-ao Wang , Shaobo Chen , Yao Xuan , Junwei Liu , Qi Gao , Hongdong Zhu , Junjie Hou , Lixin Yuan , Jinyu Cheng , Chenxin Yi , Hai Wei , Yin Ma , Tao Xu , Kai Wen , Yixue Li

Among various quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms, the quantum kernel method has especially attracted attention due to its compatibility with noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices and its potential to achieve quantum advantage.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Keitaro Anai , Shion Ikehara , Yoshichika Yano , Daichi Okuno , Shuntaro Takeda

This work presents a novel realization approach to Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs). The preparation of the required Gibbs states, as well as the evaluation of the loss function's analytic gradient is based on Variational Quantum Imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Christa Zoufal , Aurélien Lucchi , Stefan Woerner

Boltzmann machine is a powerful tool for modeling probability distributions that govern the training data. A thermal equilibrium state is typically used for Boltzmann machine learning to obtain a suitable probability distribution. The…

We delve into the use of photonic quantum computing to simulate quantum mechanics and extend its application towards quantum field theory. We develop and prove a method that leverages this form of Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Steven Abel , Michael Spannowsky , Simon Williams

Continuous-Variable (CV) devices are a promising platform for demonstrating large-scale quantum information protocols. In this framework, we define a general quantum computational model based on a CV hardware. It consists of vacuum input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Tom Douce , Damian Markham , Elham Kashefi , Peter van Loock , Giulia Ferrini

We introduce a new class of generative quantum-neural-network-based models called Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models (QHBMs). In doing so, we establish a paradigmatic approach for quantum-probabilistic hybrid variational learning, where we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Guillaume Verdon , Jacob Marks , Sasha Nanda , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary

Although quantum computing holds promise to accelerate a wide range of computational tasks, the quantum simulation of quantum dynamics as originally envisaged by Feynman remains the most promising candidate for achieving quantum advantage.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Sam Cochran , James Stokes , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Shravan Veerapaneni

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum information processing is a promising candidate for large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, analysis of CV quantum process relies mostly on direct computation of the evolution of operators…

The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of describing the nontrivial correlations encoded in the many-body wave functions with high complexity. Quantum neural network provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Yusen Wu , Chunyan Wei , Sujuan Qin , Qiaoyan Wen , Fei Gao

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising approach to achieving quantum advantage for practical problems on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Thus far, most studies on VQAs have focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Yutaro Enomoto , Keitaro Anai , Kenta Udagawa , Shuntaro Takeda

The quantum Boltzmann machine (QBM) is a generative machine learning model for both classical data and quantum states. Training the QBM consists of minimizing the relative entropy from the model to the target state. This requires QBM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Onno Huijgen , Luuk Coopmans , Peyman Najafi , Marcello Benedetti , Hilbert J. Kappen
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