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This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning model for classification tasks, integrating a 4-qubit quantum circuit with a classical neural network. The quantum circuit is designed to encode the features of the Iris…

Universality of neural networks describes the ability to approximate arbitrary function, and is a key ingredient to keep the method effective. The established models for universal quantum neural networks(QNN), however, require the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Xiaokai Hou , Guanyu Zhou , Qingyu Li , Shan Jin , Xiaoting Wang

With the increased focus on quantum circuit learning for near-term applications on quantum devices, in conjunction with unique challenges presented by cost function landscapes of parametrized quantum circuits, strategies for effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Andrea Skolik , Jarrod R. McClean , Masoud Mohseni , Patrick van der Smagt , Martin Leib

Deep learning has been shown to be able to recognize data patterns better than humans in specific circumstances or contexts. In parallel, quantum computing has demonstrated to be able to output complex wave functions with a few number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Junhua Liu , Kwan Hui Lim , Kristin L. Wood , Wei Huang , Chu Guo , He-Liang Huang

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate high-quality images from sampled latent codes. Recent works attempt to edit an image by manipulating its underlying latent code, but rarely go beyond the basic task of attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Minjun Li , Yanghua Jin , Huachun Zhu

We propose a novel method to explain trained deep neural networks (DNNs), by distilling them into surrogate models using unsupervised clustering. Our method can be applied flexibly to any subset of layers of a DNN architecture and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yu-han Liu , Sercan O. Arik

We introduce Quantum Graph Attention Networks (QGATs) as trainable quantum encoders for inductive learning on graphs, extending the Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNN) framework. QGATs leverage parameterized quantum circuits to encode node…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Arthur M. Faria , Mehdi Djellabi , Igor O. Sokolov , Savvas Varsamopoulos

This paper presents a new hybrid Quantum Machine Learning (QML) model composed of three elements: a classical computer in charge of the data preparation and interpretation; a Gate-based Quantum Computer running the Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Ernesto Acosta , Carlos Cano Gutierrez , Guillermo Botella , Roberto Campos

The growing computational demands of classical neural networks have intensified the search for energy-efficient and powerful computational alternatives. Quantum neural networks (QNNs) implemented on integrated photonic platforms offer a…

Quantized neural network training optimizes a discrete, non-differentiable objective. The straight-through estimator (STE) enables backpropagation through surrogate gradients and is widely used. While previous studies have primarily focused…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-14 Yuma Ichikawa , Shuhei Kashiwamura , Ayaka Sakata

Combining the advantages of quantum computing and neural networks, quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained considerable attention recently. However, because of the lack of quantum resource, it is costly to train QNNs. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Tong Dou , Zhenwei Zhou , Kaiwei Wang , Shilu Yan , Wei Cui

Recently, quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) are proposed, harnessing the power of quantum computing for faster training compared to the classical counterparts. However, this framework for deep learning also relies on multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Yifan Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Machine learning algorithms, both in their classical and quantum versions, heavily rely on optimization algorithms based on gradients, such as gradient descent and alike. The overall performance is dependent on the appearance of local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Pablo Bermejo , Borja Aizpurua , Roman Orus

Machine learning can be used as a systematic method to non-algorithmically program quantum computers. Quantum machine learning enables us to perform computations without breaking down an algorithm into its gate building blocks, eliminating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 James E. Steck , Elizabeth C. Behrman

Quantum neural network (QNN) is one of the promising directions where the near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices could find advantageous applications against classical resources. Recurrent neural networks are the most…

The use of advanced quantum neuron models for pattern recognition applications requires fault tolerance. Therefore, it is not yet possible to test such models on a large scale in currently available quantum processors. As an alternative, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 London A. Cavaletto , Luca Candelori , Alex Matos-Abiague

The development of a reliable and robust surrogate model is often constrained by the dimensionality of the problem. For a system with high-dimensional inputs/outputs (I/O), conventional approaches usually use a low-dimensional manifold to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Xihaier Luo , Ahsan Kareem

Power quality disturbances (PQDs) significantly impact the stability and reliability of power systems, necessitating accurate and efficient detection and recognition methods. While numerous classical algorithms for PQDs detection and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Guo-Dong Li , Hai-Yan He , Yue Li , Xin-Hao Li , Hao Liu , Qing-Le Wang , Long Cheng

In current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (HQNNs) represent a promising solution that combines the strengths of classical machine learning with quantum computing capabilities. Compared to…