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The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) has emerged as one of the leading quantum algorithms for solving electronic structure problems on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, its practical application to quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yanxian Tao , Lingyun Wan , Jie Liu

Quantum networks (QNs) distribute entangled states to enable distributed quantum computing and sensing applications. However, in such QNs, quantum switches (QSs) have limited resources that are highly sensitive to noise and losses and must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Mahdi Chehimi , Kenneth Goodenough , Walid Saad , Don Towsley , Tony X. Zhou

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is promising to show quantum advantage on near-term noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. One central problem of VQE is the effect of noise, especially the physical noise on realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Jinfeng Zeng , Zipeng Wu , Chenfeng Cao , Chao Zhang , Shiyao Hou , Pengxiang Xu , Bei Zeng

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a key algorithm for near-term quantum computers, yet its performance is often limited by the classical optimization of circuit parameters. We propose using the velocity Verlet algorithm, inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Rinka Miura

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an efficient classical-quantum hybrid method to take advantage of quantum computers in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In this work we test the performance of VQE by studying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-09 Yuheng Guo , Mingpu Qin

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a complex deep neural network (DNN) to a smaller and faster DNN, while preserving its accuracy. Recent variants of knowledge distillation include teaching assistant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Minghong Gao

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

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

Quality Estimation (QE) is the task of automatically predicting Machine Translation quality in the absence of reference translations, making it applicable in real-time settings, such as translating online social media conversations. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Amit Gajbhiye , Marina Fomicheva , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Frédéric Blain , Abiola Obamuyide , Nikolaos Aletras , Lucia Specia

The development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer (FTQC) gradually raises a possibility to implement the Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm. However, QPE works only for normalized systems. This requires the minimum and maximum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Hikaru Wakaura , Andriyan B. Suksmono

This work introduces Variational Diffusion Distillation (VDD), a novel method that distills denoising diffusion policies into Mixtures of Experts (MoE) through variational inference. Diffusion Models are the current state-of-the-art in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hongyi Zhou , Denis Blessing , Ge Li , Onur Celik , Xiaogang Jia , Gerhard Neumann , Rudolf Lioutikov

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been a ubiquitous method for model compression to strengthen the capability of a lightweight model with the transferred knowledge from the teacher. In particular, KD has been employed in quantization-aware…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Minsoo Kim , Sihwa Lee , Sukjin Hong , Du-Seong Chang , Jungwook Choi

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have demonstrated exceptional performance in video generation. However, their large number of parameters and high computational complexity limit their deployment on edge devices. Quantization can reduce storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Xiangqi Li , Yu Wang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Zixiang Zhao , Yongjun Xu , Michele Magno

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used for model compression and knowledge transfer. Typically, a big teacher model trained on sufficient data transfers knowledge to a small student model. However, despite the success of KD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Junzhuo Li , Xinwei Wu , Weilong Dong , Shuangzhi Wu , Chao Bian , Deyi Xiong

Knowledge distillation (KD) is the process of transferring knowledge from a large model to a small one. It has gained increasing attention in the natural language processing community, driven by the demands of compressing ever-growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yuqiao Wen , Zichao Li , Wenyu Du , Lili Mou

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are a modern family of quantum algorithms designed to solve optimization problems using a quantum computer. Typically VQAs rely on a feedback loop between the quantum device and a classical optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Alexey Uvarov

Recent recommender systems have shown remarkable performance by using an ensemble of heterogeneous models. However, it is exceedingly costly because it requires resources and inference latency proportional to the number of models, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Dongha Lee , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

We present a variational quantum algorithm that solves the one-dimensional diffusion problem with a space-dependent diffusion constant $D(x)$. This problem is relevant for the exchange of hydroxide ions across a multi-layer membrane in an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-02 Timur Gubaev , Philipp Pfeffer , Christian Dreßler , Jörg Schumacher

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) faces significant challenges due to hardware noise and the presence of barren plateaus and local traps in the optimization landscape. To mitigate the detrimental effects of these issues, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chayan Patra , Rahul Maitra

Large generative models such as large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models have revolutionized the fields of NLP and computer vision respectively. However, their slow inference, high computation and memory requirement makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Nilesh Prasad Pandey , Sweta Priyadarshi , Kyunggeun Lee , Jun Ma , Harris Teague