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Quantum theory provides non-classical principles, such as superposition and entanglement, that inspires promising paradigms in machine learning. However, most existing quantum-inspired fusion models rely solely on unitary or unitary-like…
This work introduces the quantum-inspired variational convolution (QiVC) framework, a novel learning paradigm that integrates principles of probabilistic inference, variational optimization, and quantum-inspired transformations within…
Hyperparameters play a critical role in the performances of many machine learning methods. Determining their best settings or Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) faces difficulties presented by the large number of hyperparameters as well as…
Quantum computing provides powerful algorithmic tools that have been shown to outperform established classical solvers in specific optimization tasks. A core step in solving optimization problems with known quantum algorithms such as the…
We introduce a hybrid Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) architecture for the efficient user scheduling in 5G/Beyond 5G (B5G) massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems, addressing the scalability issues of traditional methods. By…
Quantum inspired evolutionary optimization leverages quantum computing principles like superposition, interference, and probabilistic representation to enhance classical evolutionary algorithms with improved exploration and exploitation…
Quantum Annealing (QA) is one of the most promising frameworks for quantum optimization. Here, we focus on the problem of minimizing complex classical cost functions associated with prototypical discrete neural networks, specifically the…
An increasingly popular method for solving a constrained combinatorial optimisation problem is to first convert it into a quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation (QUBO) problem, and solve it using a standard QUBO solver. However, this…
We introduce a domain-specific algorithm for numerical optimization operations used by quantum circuit instantiation, synthesis, and compilation methods. QFactor uses a tensor network formulation together with analytic methods and an…
Binary neural networks (BNNs) are increasingly deployed in edge computing applications due to their low hardware complexity and high energy efficiency. However, verifying the robustness of BNNs against input perturbations, including…
Recent studies in quantum machine learning advocated the use of hybrid models to assist with the limitations of the currently existing Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, but what was missing from most of them was the…
Image recognition is one of the primary applications of machine learning algorithms. Nevertheless, machine learning models used in modern image recognition systems consist of millions of parameters that usually require significant…
Abstraction layers are of paramount importance in software architecture, as they shield the higher-level formulation of payload computations from lower-level details. Since quantum computing (QC) introduces many such details that are often…
We introduce quantum Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (QKAN), a quantum algorithmic framework inspired by the recently proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN). QKAN inherits the compositional structure of KAN and is based on block-encodings,…
Quantum machine learning (QML) is promising for potential speedups and improvements in conventional machine learning (ML) tasks (e.g., classification/regression). The search for ideal QML models is an active research field. This includes…
Leveraging quantum computers for optimization problems holds promise across various application domains. Nevertheless, utilizing respective quantum computing solvers requires describing the optimization problem according to the Quadratic…
Recent work on hyperparameters optimization (HPO) has shown the possibility of training certain hyperparameters together with regular parameters. However, these online HPO algorithms still require running evaluation on a set of validation…
This paper considers the simple bilevel optimization (SBO) problem, which minimizes a composite convex function over the optimal solution set of another composite convex minimization problem. We first show that this bilevel problem is…
Hyperparameter tuning is an active area of research in machine learning, where the aim is to identify the optimal hyperparameters that provide the best performance on the validation set. Hyperparameter tuning is often achieved using naive…
This paper proposes a quantum-classical algorithm to evaluate and select classical artificial neural networks architectures. The proposed algorithm is based on a probabilistic quantum memory and the possibility to train artificial neural…