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The barren plateau phenomenon, characterized by loss gradients that vanish exponentially with system size, poses a challenge to scaling variational quantum algorithms. Here we explore the potential of warm starts, whereby one initializes…

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Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have generated excitement around the possibility of efficiently analyzing quantum data. But this excitement has been tempered by the existence of exponentially vanishing gradients, known as barren plateau…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Arthur Pesah , M. Cerezo , Samson Wang , Tyler Volkoff , Andrew T. Sornborger , Patrick J. Coles

Solving quantum many-body systems is one of the most significant regimes where quantum computing applies. Currently, as a hardware-friendly computational paradigms, variational algorithms are often used for finding the ground energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Yong Liu , Guangyao Huang , Yizhi Wang , Junjie Wu

Point cloud upsampling (PCU) enriches the representation of raw point clouds, significantly improving the performance in downstream tasks such as classification and reconstruction. Most of the existing point cloud upsampling methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wentao Qu , Yuantian Shao , Lingwu Meng , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) are powerful generative deep learning models that have been very successful at image generation, and, very recently, in path planning and control. In this paper, we investigate how to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Michiel Nikken , Nicolò Botteghi , Wesley Roozing , Federico Califano

Quantum machine learning holds the promise of combining the success of classical machine learning methods with the power of quantum computing, however one of the largest obstacles facing the field is the problem of barren plateaus.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Tiffany Duneau , Colin Krawchuk , Anna Pearson

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are powerful generative models that have achieved unparalleled success in a number of generative tasks. In this work, we aim to build inductive biases into the training and sampling of diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Thomas Jiralerspong , Berton Earnshaw , Jason Hartford , Yoshua Bengio , Luca Scimeca

Due to the linearity of quantum mechanics, it remains a challenge to design quantum generative machine learning models that embed non-linear activations into the evolution of the statevector. However, some of the most successful classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Kaitlin Gili , Mykolas Sveistrys , Chris Ballance

Variational quantum computing schemes train a loss function by sending an initial state through a parametrized quantum circuit, and measuring the expectation value of some operator. Despite their promise, the trainability of these…

In variational quantum algorithms the parameters of a parameterized quantum circuit are optimized in order to minimize a cost function that encodes the solution of the problem. The barren plateau phenomenon manifests as an exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Marco Schumann , Frank K. Wilhelm , Alessandro Ciani

Scrambling processes, which rapidly spread entanglement through many-body quantum systems, are difficult to investigate using standard techniques, but are relevant to quantum chaos and thermalization. In this Letter, we ask if quantum…

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have shown remarkable potential due to their capability of representing complex functions within exponentially large Hilbert spaces. However, their application to multivariate regression tasks has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jaemin Seo

We find that using neural networks to generate quantum states can effectively alleviate the barren plateau phenomenon present in random variational quantum circuits.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Zhehao Yi , Rahul Bhadani

Variational quantum computing offers a powerful framework with applications across diverse fields such as quantum chemistry, machine learning, and optimization. However, its scalability is hindered by the exponential concentration of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Giulio Crognaletti , Michele Grossi , Angelo Bassi

Quantum generative models offer a promising new direction in machine learning by leveraging quantum circuits to enhance data generation capabilities. In this study, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical image generation framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Chi-Sheng Chen , Wei An Hou , Hsiang-Wei Hu , Zhen-Sheng Cai

Many experimental proposals for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices involve training a parameterized quantum circuit with a classical optimization loop. Such hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are popular for applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Jarrod R. McClean , Sergio Boixo , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Ryan Babbush , Hartmut Neven

Learning probability distribution is an essential framework in classical learning theory. As a counterpart, quantum state learning has spurred the exploration of quantum machine learning theory. However, as dimensionality increases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Mingrui Jing , Geng Liu , Hongbin Ren , Xin Wang

We propose Riemannian Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (RDDPMs) for learning distributions on submanifolds of Euclidean space that are level sets of functions, including most of the manifolds relevant to applications. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zichen Liu , Wei Zhang , Christof Schütte , Tiejun Li

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in image generation, but they are computationally intensive and time-consuming to train. In this paper, we introduce a novel diffusion model that benefits from quantum computing…

Efficiently compiling quantum operations remains a major bottleneck in scaling quantum computing. Today's state-of-the-art methods achieve low compilation error by combining search algorithms with gradient-based parameter optimization, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Florian Fürrutter , Zohim Chandani , Ikko Hamamura , Hans J. Briegel , Gorka Muñoz-Gil