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Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoxuan Liang , Saeid Naderiparizi , Yunpeng Liu , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

Without large quantum computers to empirically evaluate performance, theoretical frameworks such as the quantum statistical query (QSQ) are a primary tool to study quantum algorithms for learning classical functions and search for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Laura Lewis , Dar Gilboa , Jarrod R. McClean

Leveraging the intrinsic probabilistic nature of quantum systems, generative quantum machine learning (QML) offers the potential to outperform classical learning models. Current generative QML algorithms mostly rely on general-purpose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Bence Bakó , Dániel T. R. Nagy , Péter Hága , Zsófia Kallus , Zoltán Zimborás

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) represent a powerful tool for classical machine learning: a generator tries to create statistics for data that mimics those of a true data set, while a discriminator tries to discriminate between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Seth Lloyd , Christian Weedbrook

Understanding of how biological neural networks process information is one of the biggest open scientific questions of our time. Advances in machine learning and artificial neural networks have enabled the modeling of neuronal behavior, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Vinicius Hernandes , Eliska Greplova

Quantum computers are believed to bring computational advantages in simulating quantum many body systems. However, recent works have shown that classical machine learning algorithms are able to predict numerous properties of quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Riccardo Molteni , Casper Gyurik , Vedran Dunjko

Quantum kernel methods promise enhanced expressivity for learning structured data, but their usefulness has been limited by kernel concentration and barren plateaus. Both effects are mathematically equivalent and suppress trainability. We…

Quantum generative modeling is a very active area of research in looking for practical advantage in data analysis. Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) are leading candidates for quantum generative modeling and have been applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Milan Liepelt , Julien Baglio

Quantum advantage is well-established in centralized computing, where quantum algorithms can solve certain problems exponentially faster than classical ones. In the distributed setting, significant progress has been made in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Francesco d'Amore

Deep generative models are routinely used in generating samples from complex, high-dimensional distributions. Despite their apparent successes, their statistical properties are not well understood. A common assumption is that with enough…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-15 Edric Tam , David B. Dunson

We propose an approach for learning probability distributions as differentiable quantum circuits (DQC) that enable efficient quantum generative modelling (QGM) and synthetic data generation. Contrary to existing QGM approaches, we perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Oleksandr Kyriienko , Annie E. Paine , Vincent E. Elfving

Born-rule generative modeling, a central task in quantum machine learning, seeks to learn probability distributions that can be efficiently sampled by measuring complex quantum states. One hope is for quantum models to efficiently capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Mark M. Wilde

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical approach to model continuous classical probability distributions using a variational quantum circuit. The architecture of the variational circuit consists of two parts: a quantum circuit employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Jonathan Romero , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Classification can be performed using either a discriminative or a generative learning approach. Discriminative learning consists of constructing the conditional probability of the outputs given the inputs, while generative learning…

Fuelled by increasing computer power and algorithmic advances, machine learning techniques have become powerful tools for finding patterns in data. Since quantum systems produce counter-intuitive patterns believed not to be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Jacob Biamonte , Peter Wittek , Nicola Pancotti , Patrick Rebentrost , Nathan Wiebe , Seth Lloyd

One of the most important properties of neural networks is the clustering of local minima of the loss function near the global minimum, enabling efficient training. Though generative models implemented on quantum computers are known to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Eric R. Anschuetz

Classical diffusion models have shown superior generative results. Exploring them in the quantum domain can advance the field of quantum generative learning. This work introduces Quantum Generative Diffusion Model (QGDM) as their simple and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Chuangtao Chen , Qinglin Zhao , MengChu Zhou , Zhimin He , Zhili Sun , Haozhen Situ

Synthetic data generation has proven to be a promising solution for addressing data availability issues in various domains. Even more challenging is the generation of synthetic time series data, where one has to preserve temporal dynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Haim Horowitz , Pooja Rao , Santosh Kumar Radha

Machine learning is a promising application of quantum computing, but challenges remain as near-term devices will have a limited number of physical qubits and high error rates. Motivated by the usefulness of tensor networks for machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 William Huggins , Piyush Patel , K. Birgitta Whaley , E. Miles Stoudenmire

Quantum Circuit Born Machines (QCBMs) are powerful quantum generative models that sample according to the Born rule, with complexity-theoretic evidence suggesting potential quantum advantages for generative tasks. Here, we identify QCBMs as…