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Quantum computing has made significant progress in recent years, attracting immense interest not only in research laboratories but also in various industries. However, the application of quantum computing to solve real-world problems is…

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Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) is an emerging field aimed at automating the design of quantum circuits for optimal performance. This paper introduces a novel QAS framework employing hybrid quantum reinforcement learning with quantum…

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To accelerate and compress deep neural networks (DNNs), many network quantization algorithms have been proposed. Although the quantization strategy of any algorithm from the state-of-the-arts may outperform others in some network…

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The Transformer architecture, underpinned by the Multi-Head Attention (MHA) mechanism, has become the de facto standard for state-of-the-art models in artificial intelligence. However, the quadratic computational complexity of MHA with…

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Reinforcement learning-based Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) offers a promising avenue for automating the design of variational quantum circuits, but existing methods typically decouple discrete structure search from continuous parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jiayang Niu , Yan Wang , Jie Li , Ke Deng , Azadeh Alavi , Muhammad Usman , Yongli Ren

Quantum computing leverages quantum mechanics to address computational problems in ways that differ fundamentally from classical approaches. While current quantum hardware remains error-prone and limited in scale, Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael Kölle , Simon Salfer , Tobias Rohe , Philipp Altmann , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Quantum architecture search (QAS) automates the design of parameterized quantum circuits for variational quantum algorithms. The framework finds a well-suited problem-specific structure of a variational ansatz. Among possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mikhail Sergeev , Georgii Paradezhenko , Daniil Rabinovich , Vladimir V. Palyulin

We introduce layered Quantum Architecture Search (layered-QAS), a strategy inspired by classical network morphism that designs Parametrised Quantum Circuit (PQC) architectures by progressively growing and adapting them. PQCs offer strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Natacha Kuete Meli , Jovita Lukasik , Vladislav Golyanik , Michael Moeller

The recent exploding growth in size of state-of-the-art machine learning models highlights a well-known issue where exponential parameter growth, which has grown to trillions as in the case of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Ethan N. Evans , Matthew Cook , Zachary P. Bradshaw , Margarite L. LaBorde

Simulating molecular systems on quantum processors has the potential to surpass classical methods in computational resource efficiency. The limited qubit connectivity, small processor size, and short coherence times of near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Abhishek Sadhu , Aritra Sarkar , Akash Kundu

The key challenge in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era is finding useful circuits compatible with current device limitations. Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) offer a potential solution by fixing the circuit architecture and…

Quantum architecture search (QAS) involves optimizing both the quantum parametric circuit configuration but also its parameters for a variational quantum algorithm. Thus, the problem is known to be multi-level as the performance of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Vicente P. Soloviev , Vedran Dunjko , Concha Bielza , Pedro Larrañaga , Hao Wang

Quantum architecture search (QAS) represents a fundamental challenge in quantum machine learning. Unlike previous methods that treat it as a static search process, from a perspective on QAS as an item retrieval task in vast search space, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Lian-Hui Yu , Xiao-Yu Li , Geng Chen , Qin-Sheng Zhu , Hui Li , Guo-Wu Yang

Quantum architecture search (QAS) has emerged to automate the design of high-performance quantum circuits under specific tasks and hardware constraints. We propose a noise-aware quantum architecture search (NA-QAS) framework based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Chenlu Li , Hui Zeng , Dazhi Ding

The quest for effective quantum feature maps for data encoding presents significant challenges, particularly due to the flat training landscapes and lengthy training processes associated with parameterised quantum circuits. To address these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yaswitha Gujju , Romain Harang , Chao Li , Tetsuo Shibuya , Qibin Zhao

The self-attention mechanism (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable success in various applications. However, training SAM on classical computers becomes computationally challenging as the number of trainable parameters grows. Quantum neural…

Integrating quantum computing into deep learning architectures is a promising but poorly understood endeavor: when does a quantum layer actually help, and how much quantum is enough? We address both questions through Quantum Adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo

Quantum computing presents a promising approach for machine learning with its capability for extremely parallel computation in high-dimension through superposition and entanglement. Despite its potential, existing quantum learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Jinyang Li , Zhepeng Wang , Zhirui Hu , Prasanna Date , Ang Li , Weiwen Jiang

Considering the noise level limit, one crucial aspect for quantum machine learning is to design a high-performing variational quantum circuit architecture with small number of quantum gates. As the classical neural architecture search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jialin Chen , Zhiqiang Cai , Ke Xu , Di Wu , Wei Cao