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Experimental characterizations of a quantum system involve the measurement of expectation values of observables for a preparable state |psi> of the quantum system. Such expectation values can be measured by repeatedly preparing |psi> and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emanuel Knill , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando D. Somma

To characterize the dynamical behavior of many-body quantum systems, one is usually interested in the evolution of so-called order-parameters rather than in characterizing the full quantum state. In many situations, these quantities…

Generative modeling using samples drawn from the probability distribution constitutes a powerful approach for unsupervised machine learning. Quantum mechanical systems can produce probability distributions that exhibit quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Xun Gao , Eric R. Anschuetz , Sheng-Tao Wang , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mikhail D. Lukin

Quantum sensing exploits non-classical effects to overcome limitations of classical sensors, with applications ranging from gravitational-wave detection to nanoscale imaging. However, practical quantum sensors built on noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ivana Nikoloska , Hamdi Joudeh , Ruud van Sloun , Osvaldo Simeone

Interpretable machine learning is rapidly becoming a crucial tool for scientific discovery. Among existing approaches, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in extracting the hidden physical features of some input data, with no…

Controllable generation is one of the key requirements for successful adoption of deep generative models in real-world applications, but it still remains as a great challenge. In particular, the compositional ability to generate novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

An important task in quantum generative machine learning is to model the probability distribution of measurements of many-body quantum systems. Classical generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Anantha Rao , Dhiraj Madan , Anupama Ray , Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy , M. S. Santhanam

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a theoretically-backed and popular framework for deep generative models. However, learning a VAE from data poses still unanswered theoretical questions and considerable practical challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Partha Ghosh , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Antonio Vergari , Michael Black , Bernhard Schölkopf

Generative models aim to learn the probability distributions underlying data, enabling the generation of new, realistic samples. Quantum inspired generative models, such as Born machines based on the matrix product state framework, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wanda Hou , Miao Li , Yi-Zhuang You

Deep generative models with discrete latent space, such as the Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE), offer excellent data generation capabilities, but, due to the large size of their latent space, their probabilistic inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Armin Hadžić , Milan Papez , Tomáš Pevný

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models consisting of two components: a generative model that captures a data distribution p(x) by transforming a distribution p(z) over latent space, and an inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yaniv Yacoby , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

Training deep generative models like Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) requires propagating gradients through stochastic latent variables, which introduces estimation variance that can slow convergence and degrade performance. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zilei Shao , Anji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck

A sequence of random variables is exchangeable if its joint distribution is invariant under variable permutations. We introduce exchangeable variable models (EVMs) as a novel class of probabilistic models whose basic building blocks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Mathias Niepert , Pedro Domingos

Invertible flow-based generative models are an effective method for learning to generate samples, while allowing for tractable likelihood computation and inference. However, the invertibility requirement restricts models to have the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Abhishek Kumar , Ben Poole , Kevin Murphy

Generative modeling is an unsupervised machine learning framework, that exhibits strong performance in various machine learning tasks. Recently we find several quantum version of generative model, some of which are even proven to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Hiroyuki Tezuka , Shumpei Uno , Naoki Yamamoto

Good generative models should not only synthesize high quality data, but also utilize interpretable representations that aid human understanding of their behavior. However, it is difficult to measure objectively if and to what degree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Daniel Galperin , Ullrich Köthe

We propose an approach to generative quantum machine learning that overcomes the fundamental scaling issues of variational quantum circuits. The core idea is to use a class of generative models based on instantaneous quantum polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Erik Recio-Armengol , Shahnawaz Ahmed , Joseph Bowles

The vector quantization is a widely used method to map continuous representation to discrete space and has important application in tokenization for generative mode, bottlenecking information and many other tasks in machine learning. Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingyuan Yan , Jiawei Wu , Rushi Shah , Dianbo Liu

Variational quantum metrology represents a powerful tool for optimizing generic estimation strategies, combining the principles of variational optimization with the techniques of quantum metrology. Such optimization procedures result…

The de novo design of drug molecules is recognized as a time-consuming and costly process, and computational approaches have been applied in each stage of the drug discovery pipeline. Variational autoencoder is one of the computer-aided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Junde Li , Swaroop Ghosh