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Quantization of neural networks provides benefits of inference in less compute and memory requirements. Previous work in quantization lack two important aspects which this work provides. First almost all previous work in quantization used a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zia Badar

We develop a new quantum neural network layer designed to run efficiently on a quantum computer but that can be simulated on a classical computer when restricted in the way it entangles input states. We first ask how a classical neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Roberto Bondesan , Max Welling

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) represent a promising approach in quantum machine learning, paving new directions for both quantum and classical data analysis. This approach is particularly attractive due to the absence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Changwon Lee , Israel F. Araujo , Dongha Kim , Junghan Lee , Siheon Park , Ju-Young Ryu , Daniel K. Park

Generalization is an important feature of neural network, and there have been many studies on it. Recently, with the development of quantum compu-ting, it brings new opportunities. In this paper, we studied a class of quantum neural network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 JinZhe Jiang , Xin Zhang , Chen Li , YaQian Zhao , RenGang Li

Image classification, a pivotal task in multiple industries, faces computational challenges due to the burgeoning volume of visual data. This research addresses these challenges by introducing two quantum machine learning models that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Arsenii Senokosov , Alexandr Sedykh , Asel Sagingalieva , Basil Kyriacou , Alexey Melnikov

Artificial Intelligence (AI), with its multiplier effect and wide applications in multiple areas, could potentially be an important application of quantum computing. Since modern AI systems are often built on neural networks, the design of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Peiyong Wang , Casey. R. Myers , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg , Udaya Parampalli

Quantum machine learning has the potential to enable advances in artificial intelligence, such as solving problems intractable on classical computers. Some fundamental ideas behind quantum machine learning are similar to kernel methods in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Samuel Bosch , Bobak Kiani , Rui Yang , Adrian Lupascu , Seth Lloyd

The performance of a neural network for a given task is largely determined by the initial calibration of the network parameters. Yet, it has been shown that the calibration, also referred to as training, is generally NP-complete. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Yidong Liao , Daniel Ebler , Feiyang Liu , Oscar Dahlsten

We introduce a method to train Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) --- neural networks with extremely low precision (e.g., 1-bit) weights and activations, at run-time. At train-time the quantized weights and activations are used for computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Itay Hubara , Matthieu Courbariaux , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

We present a theoretical and experimental investigation of the quantization problem for artificial neural networks. We provide a mathematical definition of quantized neural networks and analyze their approximation capabilities, showing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Matteo Spallanzani , Lukas Cavigelli , Gian Paolo Leonardi , Marko Bertogna , Luca Benini

In this short note, we propose a new method for quantizing the weights of a fully trained neural network. A simple deterministic pre-processing step allows us to quantize network layers via memoryless scalar quantization while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Johannes Maly , Rayan Saab

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising variational learning paradigm with applications to near-term quantum processors, however they still face some significant challenges. One such challenge is finding good parameter initialization…

In this paper, we propose a simple neural net that requires only $O(nlog_2k)$ number of qubits and $O(nk)$ quantum gates: Here, $n$ is the number of input parameters, and $k$ is the number of weights applied to these parameters in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ammar Daskin

It is suggested that a quantum neural network (QNN), a type of artificial neural network, can be built using the principles of quantum information processing. The input and output qubits in the QNN can be implemented by optical modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Altaisky

Accurate molecular force fields are of paramount importance for the efficient implementation of molecular dynamics techniques at large scales. In the last decade, machine learning methods have demonstrated impressive performances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Oriel Kiss , Francesco Tacchino , Sofia Vallecorsa , Ivano Tavernelli

Quantum operations on pure states can be fully represented by unitary matrices. Variational quantum circuits, also known as quantum neural networks, embed data and trainable parameters into gate-based operations and optimize the parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Basil Kyriacou , Mo Kordzanganeh , Maniraman Periyasamy , Alexey Melnikov

We design a quantum version of neural networks with sinusoidal activation functions and compare its performance to the classical case. We create a general quantum sine circuit implementing a discretised sinusoidal activation function. Along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Zujin Wen , Jin-Long Huang , Oscar Dahlsten

Artificial neural networks have been proposed as potential algorithms that could benefit from being implemented and run on quantum computers. In particular, they hold promise to greatly enhance Artificial Intelligence tasks, such as image…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Stefano Mangini , Francesco Tacchino , Dario Gerace , Chiara Macchiavello , Daniele Bajoni

The quantization of neural networks for the mitigation of the nonlinear and components' distortions in dual-polarization optical fiber transmission is studied. Two low-complexity neural network equalizers are applied in three 16-QAM 34.4…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Jamal Darweesh , Nelson Costa , Antonio Napoli , Bernhard Spinnler , Yves Jaouen , Mansoor Yousefi

Quantum computers promise improving machine learning. We investigated the performance of new quantum neural network designs. Quantum neural networks currently employed rely on a feature map to encode the input into a quantum state. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Felix Petitzon