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Reinforcement learning has driven impressive advances in machine learning. Simultaneously, quantum-enhanced machine learning algorithms using quantum annealing underlie heavy developments. Recently, a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

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Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically formulate ARE as a sequential decision-making problem…

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The scaling of quantum processors is currently limited by technical challenges such as decoherence and cross-talk. As the number of qubits grows, interference increases the computational noise. Distributed quantum computing addresses these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Víctor Carballo , Júlia López-Closa , Mario Martin

Using quantum annealing to solve an optimization problem requires minor embeddings of a logic graph into a known hardware graph. In an effort to reduce the complexity of the minor embedding problem, we introduce the minor set cover (MSC) of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 Kathleen E. Hamilton , Travis S. Humble

The matrix quantization entails representing matrix elements in a more space-efficient form to reduce storage usage, with dequantization restoring the original matrix for use. We formulate the Quantization Error Minimization (QEM) problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yanshu Wang , Wang Li , Zhaoqian Yao , Tong Yang

We introduce a framework for mapping NP-Hard problems to adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) architectures that are heavily restricted in both connectivity and dynamic range of couplings, for which minor-embedding -- the standard problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Gary J. Mooney , Sam U. Y. Tonetto , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Graphs have been widely used to represent complex data in many applications. Efficient and effective analysis of graphs is important for graph-based applications. However, most graph analysis tasks are combinatorial optimization (CO)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Yun Peng , Byron Choi , Jianliang Xu

It is a long-standing question to discover causal relations among a set of variables in many empirical sciences. Recently, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved promising results in causal discovery from observational data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yali Du , Shengyu Zhu , Liangjun Ke , Zhitang Chen , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang

CNOT gates are fundamental to quantum computing, as they facilitate entanglement, a crucial resource for quantum algorithms. Certain classes of quantum circuits are constructed exclusively from CNOT gates. Given their widespread use, it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Riccardo Romanello , Daniele Lizzio Bosco , Jacopo Cossio , Dusan Sutulovic , Giuseppe Serra , Carla Piazza , Paolo Burelli

Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) promises compact function approximators with access to vast Hilbert spaces, but its practical progress is slowed by NISQ-era constraints such as limited qubits and noise accumulation. We introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Junghoon Justin Park , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Shinjae Yoo , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Jiook Cha

A reinforcement learning (RL) framework is introduced for the efficient synthesis of quantum circuits that generate specified target quantum states from a fixed initial state, addressing a central challenge in both the Noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Sara Giordano , Kornikar Sen , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

The increasing amount of data processed on edge and the demand for reducing the energy consumption for large neural network architectures have initiated the transition from traditional von Neumann architectures towards in-memory computing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-27 O. Krestinskaya , L. Zhang , K. N. Salama

In this paper we present a novel strategy to solve optimization problems within a hybrid quantum-classical scheme based on quantum annealing, with a particular focus on QUBO problems. The proposed algorithm is based on an iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

A reinforcement algorithm solves a classical optimization problem by introducing a feedback to the system which slowly changes the energy landscape and converges the algorithm to an optimal solution in the configuration space. Here, we use…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-08 A. Ramezanpour

Quantum computing and machine learning have potential for symbiosis. However, in addition to the hardware limitations from current devices, there are still basic issues that must be addressed before quantum circuits can usefully incorporate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Fabio Sanches , Sean Weinberg , Takanori Ide , Kazumitsu Kamiya

This paper explores the applications of quantum annealing (QA) and classical simulated annealing (SA) to a suite of combinatorial optimization problems in machine learning, namely feature selection, instance selection, and clustering. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Chloe Pomeroy , Aleksandar Pramov , Karishma Thakrar , Lakshmi Yendapalli

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in graph representation learning, with the continuous embedding approach emerging as the dominant paradigm. However, such methods encounter issues regarding parameter efficiency, interpretability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Qika Lin , Zhen Peng , Kaize Shi , Kai He , Yiming Xu , Jian Zhang , Erik Cambria , Mengling Feng

Quantum annealers like those from D-Wave Systems implement adiabatic quantum computing to solve optimization problems, but their analog nature and limited control functionalities present challenges to correcting or mitigating errors. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Hristo N. Djidjev

Understanding the limiting capabilities of classical methods in simulating complex quantum systems is of paramount importance for quantum technologies. Although many advanced approaches have been proposed and recently used to challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 I. A. Luchnikov , A. V. Berezutskii , A. K. Fedorov

The network embedding problem that maps nodes in a graph to vectors in Euclidean space can be very useful for addressing several important tasks on a graph. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed for solving such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ping-En Lu , Cheng-Shang Chang