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As it becomes increasingly difficult to monolithically scale a quantum processor, distributed quantum computing (DQC) offers an alternative by distributing qubits across multiple smaller interconnected quantum processor modules. In such an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Joost Van Veen , Luise Prielinger , Sebastian Feld

Reinforcement learning has driven impressive advances in machine learning. Simultaneously, quantum-enhanced machine learning algorithms using quantum annealing underlie heavy developments. Recently, a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tobias Müller , Christoph Roch , Kyrill Schmid , Philipp Altmann

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical reinforcement learning framework for sector rotation in the Taiwan stock market. Our system employs Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) as the backbone algorithm and integrates both classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chi-Sheng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Ya-Chuan Chen

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently emerged as a powerful wave-domain technology that enables multi-stage manipulation of electromagnetic signals through multilayer programmable architectures. While SIMs offer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Le-Hung Hoang , Quang-Trung Luu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen

In the past few years, off-policy reinforcement learning methods have shown promising results in their application for robot control. Deep Q-learning, however, still suffers from poor data-efficiency and is susceptible to stochasticity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gabriel Kalweit , Maria Huegle , Joschka Boedecker

Reinforcement learning is a promising paradigm for learning robot control, allowing complex control policies to be learned without requiring a dynamics model. However, even state of the art algorithms can be difficult to tune for optimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Renata Garcia , Wouter Caarls

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has outperformed other counterparts in sequential decision-making and dynamic environment control. However, FPGA deployment is significantly resource-expensive, as associated with large number of computations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Anushka Jha , Tanushree Dewangan , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successful in a wide variety of simulated domains. However, a major obstacle facing deep RL in the real world is their high sample complexity. Batch policy gradient methods offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Shixiang Gu , Timothy Lillicrap , Zoubin Ghahramani , Richard E. Turner , Sergey Levine

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn a policy from a static dataset without further interactions with the environment. Collecting sufficiently large datasets for offline RL is exhausting since this data collection requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jongchan Park , Mingyu Park , Donghwan Lee

Quantum computing and machine learning have potential for symbiosis. However, in addition to the hardware limitations from current devices, there are still basic issues that must be addressed before quantum circuits can usefully incorporate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Fabio Sanches , Sean Weinberg , Takanori Ide , Kazumitsu Kamiya

In this work, we address the problem of determining reliable policies in reinforcement learning (RL), with a focus on optimization under uncertainty and the need for performance guarantees. While classical RL algorithms aim at maximizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Nadir Farhi

With the rapid advance of information technology, network systems have become increasingly complex and hence the underlying system dynamics are often unknown or difficult to characterize. Finding a good network control policy is of…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Bai Liu , Qiaomin Xie , Eytan Modiano

Model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) works well when experience can be collected cheaply and model-based RL is effective when system dynamics can be modeled accurately. However, both assumptions can be violated in real world problems such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mohak Bhardwaj , Ankur Handa , Dieter Fox , Byron Boots

The aim of this paper is to introduce a quantum fusion mechanism for multimodal learning and to establish its theoretical and empirical potential. The proposed method, called the Quantum Fusion Layer (QFL), replaces classical fusion schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Tuyen Nguyen , Trong Nghia Hoang , Phi Le Nguyen , Hai L. Vu , Truong Cong Thang

Feedback-based control is the de-facto standard when it comes to controlling classical stochastic systems and processes. However, standard feedback-based control methods are challenged by quantum systems due to measurement induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kai Meinerz , Simon Trebst , Mark Rudner , Evert van Nieuwenburg

Safe reinforcement learning (RL) is a popular and versatile paradigm to learn reward-maximizing policies with safety guarantees. Previous works tend to express the safety constraints in an expectation form due to the ease of implementation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Chenglin Li , Guangchun Ruan , Hua Geng

Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) has emerged as a promising research field, leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to enhance the performance of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. However, despite its growing interest, QRL…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Georg Kruse , Rodrigo Coelho , Andreas Rosskopf , Robert Wille , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful data-driven control method that has been largely explored in autonomous driving tasks. However, conventional RL approaches learn control policies through trial-and-error interactions with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Tianyu Shi , Dong Chen , Kaian Chen , Zhaojian Li

We present BenchRL-QAS, a unified benchmarking framework for reinforcement learning (RL) in quantum architecture search (QAS) across a spectrum of variational quantum algorithm tasks on 2- to 8-qubit systems. Our study systematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Azhar Ikhtiarudin , Aditi Das , Param Thakkar , Akash Kundu

Due to the large state space of the two-qubit system, and the adoption of ladder reward function in the existing quantum state preparation methods, the convergence speed is slow and it is difficult to prepare the desired target quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Jing Xu , Bosi Wang