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Neural Quantum States (NQS) use neural networks to represent wavefunctions of quantum many-body systems, but their performance depends on the choice of basis, yet the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. We use a fully solvable…

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful variational ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. Their internal mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood. We investigate the role of correlations for NQS-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Fabian Döschl , Annabelle Bohrdt

A fairly comprehensive analysis is presented for the gradient descent dynamics for training two-layer neural network models in the situation when the parameters in both layers are updated. General initialization schemes as well as general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Weinan E , Chao Ma , Lei Wu

Hardware-friendly network quantization (e.g., binary/uniform quantization) can efficiently accelerate the inference and meanwhile reduce memory consumption of the deep neural networks, which is crucial for model deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Shenghu Jiang , Tianxiang Li , Peng Hu , Jiazhen Lin , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan

Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and highly expressive parameterization of wave functions for strongly correlated problems in quantum chemistry. Despite rapid advances in network architectures, the evaluation of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Marco Julian Solanki , Lexin Ding , Markus Reiher

We show that a variety of modern deep learning tasks exhibit a "double-descent" phenomenon where, as we increase model size, performance first gets worse and then gets better. Moreover, we show that double descent occurs not just as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Preetum Nakkiran , Gal Kaplun , Yamini Bansal , Tristan Yang , Boaz Barak , Ilya Sutskever

Neural network quantum states emerge as a promising tool for solving quantum many-body problems. However, its successes and limitations are still not well-understood in particular for Fermions with complex sign structures. Based on our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Zhendong Li , Tong Zhao , Bohan Zhang

We present a deterministic optimization framework for Neural Network Quantum States (NQS) designed to bypass the sampling variance and slow mixing issues inherent in stochastic optimization. By projecting a neural backflow ansatz onto…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng Che

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a versatile and expressive alternative to traditional variational ans\"atze for simulating physical systems. Energy-based frameworks, like Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Manas Sajjan , Vinit Singh , Sabre Kais

Deep neural networks can achieve remarkable generalization performances while interpolating the training data perfectly. Rather than the U-curve emblematic of the bias-variance trade-off, their test error often follows a "double descent" -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Maria Refinetti , Giulio Biroli , Florent Krzakala

Neural-network quantum states have emerged as a powerful variational framework for quantum many-body systems, with recent progress often driven by massively parallel architectures such as transformers. Recurrent neural network quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 Ejaaz Merali , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Mohammad Kohandel , Richard T. Scalettar , Ehsan Khatami

Variational wavefunctions offer a practical route around the exponential complexity of many-body Hilbert spaces, but their expressive power is often sharply constrained. Matrix product states, for instance, are efficient but limited to area…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Nisarga Paul

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) play an important role as an emerging technology in the rapidly growing field of quantum machine learning. While their empirical success is evident, the theoretical explorations of QNNs, particularly their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jiaqi Yang , Wei Xie , Xiaohua Xu

We study the performance of efficient quantum state tomography methods based on neural network quantum states using measured data from a two-photon experiment. Machine learning inspired variational methods provide a promising route towards…

A quadratic approximation of neural network loss landscapes has been extensively used to study the optimization process of these networks. Though, it usually holds in a very small neighborhood of the minimum, it cannot explain many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chao Ma , Daniel Kunin , Lei Wu , Lexing Ying

Neural quantum states (NQSs) are powerful variational ans\"atze capable of representing highly entangled quantum many-body wavefunctions. While the average entanglement properties of ensembles of restricted Boltzmann machines are well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Andrew Jreissaty , Hang Zhang , Jairo C. Quijano , Juan Carrasquilla , Roeland Wiersema

Neural network-based algorithms have garnered considerable attention in condensed matter physics for their ability to learn complex patterns from very high dimensional data sets towards classifying complex long-range patterns of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Ian MacCormack , Conor Delaney , Alexey Galda , Nidhi Aggarwal , Prineha Narang

Neural network quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for addressing quantum many-body problems. While successful for model Hamiltonians, their application to molecular systems remains challenging for several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zibo Wu , Bohan Zhang , Wei-Hai Fang , Zhendong Li

A recent line of research has highlighted the existence of a "double descent" phenomenon in deep learning, whereby increasing the number of training examples $N$ causes the generalization error of neural networks to peak when $N$ is of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli