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A quantum neural network (QNN) is interpreted today as any quantum circuit with trainable continuous parameters. This work builds on previous works by the authors and addresses QNN for image classification with Novel Enhanced Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Santanu Ganguly

The quantized neural network (QNN) is an efficient approach for network compression and can be widely used in the implementation of FPGAs. This paper proposes a novel learning framework for n-bit QNNs, whose weights are constrained to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Jun Chen , Liang Liu , Yong Liu , Xianfang Zeng

We compare the performance of randomized classical and quantum neural networks (NNs) as well as classical and quantum-classical hybrid convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of supervised binary image classification. We keep the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Daniel Basilewitsch , João F. Bravo , Christian Tutschku , Frederick Struckmeier

Hierarchical quantum classifiers, such as quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), represent recent progress toward designing effective and feasible architectures for quantum classification. However, their performance on near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Taehyun Kim , Israel F. Araujo , Daniel K. Park

Neural networks enjoy widespread success in both research and industry and, with the imminent advent of quantum technology, it is now a crucial challenge to design quantum neural networks for fully quantum learning tasks. Here we propose…

Logistic regression (LR) is an important machine learning model for classification, with wide applications in text classification, image analysis and medicine diagnosis, etc. However, training LR generally entails an iterative gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Hai-Ling Liu , Chao-Hua Yu , Yu-Sen Wu , Shi-Jie Pan , Su-Juan Qin , Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen

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

Variational quantum algorithms, optimized using gradient-based methods, often exhibit sub-optimal convergence performance due to their dependence on Euclidean geometry. Quantum natural gradient descent (QNGD) is a more efficient method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Mohammad Aamir Sohail , Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (HQNNs) are emerging as a practical approach for quantum machine learning in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, as they combine classical learning components with parameterized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Kashif , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Shafique

Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 John Chiang

Quantum multi-programming is a method utilizing contemporary noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers by executing multiple quantum circuits concurrently. Despite early research on it, the research remains on quantum gates or small-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Gilchan Park , Kun Zhang , Kwangmin Yu , Vladimir Korepin

Quantum computing is currently strongly limited by the impact of noise, in particular introduced by the application of two-qubit gates. For this reason, reducing the number of two-qubit gates is of paramount importance on noisy…

Variational quantum algorithms are proposed to solve relevant computational problems on near term quantum devices. Popular versions are variational quantum eigensolvers and quantum ap- proximate optimization algorithms that solve ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Lennart Bittel , Martin Kliesch

Quantum and classical machine learning have been naturally connected through kernel methods, which have also served as proof-of-concept for quantum advantage. Quantum embeddings encode classical data into quantum feature states, enabling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Pablo Rodriguez-Grasa , Yue Ban , Mikel Sanz

Quantum computing (QC) has gained popularity due to its unique capabilities that are quite different from that of classical computers in terms of speed and methods of operations. This paper proposes hybrid models and methods that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Akshay Ajagekar , Travis Humble , Fengqi You

A classical computer works with ones and zeros, whereas a quantum computer uses ones, zeros, and superpositions of ones and zeros, which enables quantum computers to perform a vast number of calculations simultaneously compared to classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Mhafuzul Islam , Mashrur Chowdhury , Zadid Khan , Sakib Mahmud Khan

Quantum search algorithm (also known as Grover's algorithm) lays the foundation for many other quantum algorithms. Although it is very simple, its implementation is limited on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors. Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Kun Zhang , Kwangmin Yu , Vladimir Korepin

Random weight change (RWC) algorithm is extremely component and robust for the hardware implementation of neural networks. RWC and Genetic algorithm (GA) are well known methodologies used for optimizing and learning the neural network (NN).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Mohammad Ibrahim Sarker , Zubaer Ibna Mannan , Hyongsuk Kim

Quantum advantage is the core of quantum computing. Grover's search algorithm is the only quantum algorithm with proven advantage to any possible classical search algorithm. However, realizing this quantum advantage in practice is quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jian Leng , Fan Yang , Xiang-Bin Wang

Finding the optimal solution to a complex optimization problem is of great importance in practically all fields of science, technology, technical design and econometrics. We demonstrate that a modified Grover's quantum algorithm can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jing Zhu , Zhen Huang , Sabre Kais