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The development of quantum computational techniques has advanced greatly in recent years, parallel to the advancements in techniques for deep reinforcement learning. This work explores the potential for quantum computing to facilitate…

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The key challenge in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era is finding useful circuits compatible with current device limitations. Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) offer a potential solution by fixing the circuit architecture and…

Reinforcement learning (RL) enables agents to learn optimal policies through environmental interaction. However, RL suffers from reduced learning efficiency due to the curse of dimensionality in high-dimensional spaces. Quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Seok Bin Son , Joongheon Kim

Quantum computing has promised significant improvement in solving difficult computational tasks over classical computers. Designing quantum circuits for practical use, however, is not a trivial objective and requires expert-level knowledge.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Esther Ye , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

In recent years, quantum computing (QC) has been getting a lot of attention from industry and academia. Especially, among various QC research topics, variational quantum circuit (VQC) enables quantum deep reinforcement learning (QRL). Many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Won Joon Yun , Yunseok Kwak , Jae Pyoung Kim , Hyunhee Cho , Soyi Jung , Jihong Park , Joongheon Kim

Quantum computing promises advantages over classical computing. The manufacturing of quantum hardware is in the infancy stage, called the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. A major challenge is automated quantum circuit design…

The scaling of quantum processors is currently limited by technical challenges such as decoherence and cross-talk. As the number of qubits grows, interference increases the computational noise. Distributed quantum computing addresses these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Víctor Carballo , Júlia López-Closa , Mario Martin

For a large number of tasks, quantum computing demonstrates the potential for exponential acceleration over classical computing. In the NISQ era, variable-component subcircuits enable applications of quantum computing. To reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Junhan Qin

A reinforcement learning (RL) framework is introduced for the efficient synthesis of quantum circuits that generate specified target quantum states from a fixed initial state, addressing a central challenge in both the Noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Sara Giordano , Kornikar Sen , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Parameterised quantum circuit (PQC) based Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm at the intersection of quantum computing and reinforcement learning (RL). By design, PQCs create hybrid quantum-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Javier Lazaro , Juan-Ignacio Vazquez , Pablo Garcia-Bringas

Quantum computing offers exciting opportunities for simulating complex quantum systems and optimizing large scale combinatorial problems, but its practical use is limited by device noise and constrained connectivity. Designing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Akash Kundu , Leopoldo Sarra

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

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 G. Maragkopoulos , A. Mandilara , A. Tsili , D. Syvridis

Quantum machine learning -- and specifically Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) -- offers a powerful, flexible paradigm for programming near-term quantum computers, with applications in chemistry, metrology, materials science, data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 M. Bilkis , M. Cerezo , Guillaume Verdon , Patrick J. Coles , Lukasz Cincio

Designing effective quantum circuits remains a central challenge in quantum computing, as circuit structure strongly influences expressivity, trainability, and hardware feasibility. Current approaches, whether using manually designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Devroop Kar , Daniel Krutz , Travis Desell

Quantum computing holds immense potential for solving classically intractable problems by leveraging the unique properties of quantum mechanics. The scalability of quantum architectures remains a significant challenge. Multi-core quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Arnau Pastor , Pau Escofet , Sahar Ben Rached , Eduard Alarcón , Pere Barlet-Ros , Sergi Abadal

Quantum compiling aims to construct a quantum circuit V by quantum gates drawn from a native gate alphabet, which is functionally equivalent to the target unitary U. It is a crucial stage for the running of quantum algorithms on noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Zhimin He , Lvzhou Li , Shenggen Zheng , Yongyao Li , Haozhen Situ

Quantum Computing aims to streamline machine learning, making it more effective with fewer trainable parameters. This reduction of parameters can speed up the learning process and reduce the use of computational resources. However, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Michael Kölle , Timo Witter , Tobias Rohe , Gerhard Stenzel , Philipp Altmann , Thomas Gabor

Quantum algorithm design plays a crucial role in exploiting the computational advantage of quantum devices. Here we develop a deep-reinforcement-learning based approach for quantum adiabatic algorithm design. Our approach is generically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Jian Lin , Zhong Yuan Lai , Xiaopeng Li

Quantum computing (QC) in the current NISQ era is still limited in size and precision. Hybrid applications mitigating those shortcomings are prevalent to gain early insight and advantages. Hybrid quantum machine learning (QML) comprises…