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Attention mechanisms have revolutionized natural language processing. Combining them with quantum computing aims to further advance this technology. This paper introduces a novel Quantum Mixed-State Self-Attention Network (QMSAN) for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Fu Chen , Qinglin Zhao , Li Feng , Chuangtao Chen , Yangbin Lin , Jianhong Lin

The success of the self-attention mechanism in classical machine learning models has inspired the development of quantum analogs aimed at reducing computational overhead. Self-attention integrates learnable query and key matrices to…

We propose a variational quantum implementation of self-attention (QSA), the core operation in transformers and large language models, which predicts future elements of a sequence by forming overlap-weighted combinations of past data. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Alessio Pecilli , Matteo Rosati

The self-attention mechanism (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable success in various applications. However, training SAM on classical computers becomes computationally challenging as the number of trainable parameters grows. Quantum neural…

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of quantum text generation models against traditional Transformer/MLP architectures, addressing the growing interest in quantum computing applications for natural language processing. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo

Language processing is at the heart of current developments in artificial intelligence, and quantum computers are becoming available at the same time. This has led to great interest in quantum natural language processing, and several early…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Dominic Widdows , Willie Aboumrad , Dohun Kim , Sayonee Ray , Jonathan Mei

An emerging direction of quantum computing is to establish meaningful quantum applications in various fields of artificial intelligence, including natural language processing (NLP). Although some efforts based on syntactic analysis have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Guangxi Li , Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang

Integrating quantum computing into deep learning architectures is a promising but poorly understood endeavor: when does a quantum layer actually help, and how much quantum is enough? We address both questions through Quantum Adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo

Self-attention has revolutionized classical machine learning, yet existing quantum self-attention models underutilize quantum states' potential due to oversimplified or incomplete mechanisms. To address this limitation, we introduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Fu Chen , Qinglin Zhao , Li Feng , Longfei Tang , Yangbin Lin , Haitao Huang

Our primary objective is to conduct a brief survey of various classical and quantum neural net sequence models, which includes self-attention and recurrent neural networks, with a focus on recent quantum approaches proposed to work with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 I-Chi Chen , Harshdeep Singh , V L Anukruti , Brian Quanz , Kavitha Yogaraj

Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to semantic modeling by embedding compositional structure directly into quantum circuits. This paper investigates the application of QNLP models to the task of Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ling Sun , Peter Sullivan , Michael Martin , Yun Zhou

Answer selection (answer ranking) is one of the key steps in many kinds of question answering (QA) applications, where deep models have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Among these deep models, recurrent neural network (RNN) based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Dong Xu , Jianhui Ji , Haikuan Huang , Hongbo Deng , Wu-Jun Li

Self-Attention Mechanism (SAM) is good at capturing the internal connections of features and greatly improves the performance of machine learning models, espeacially requiring efficient characterization and feature extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Jinjing Shi , Ren-Xin Zhao , Wenxuan Wang , Shichao Zhang , Xuelong Li

In the realm of deep learning, the self-attention mechanism has substantiated its pivotal role across a myriad of tasks, encompassing natural language processing and computer vision. Despite achieving success across diverse applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Muhan Zhang

Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to encoding and understanding the complexity of natural languages through the power of quantum computation. This paper presents a pretrained quantum context-sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Charles M. Varmantchaonala , Niclas Götting , Nils-Erik Schütte , Jean Louis E. K. Fendji , Christopher Gies

The present study aims to explore the feasibility of language translation using quantum natural language processing algorithms on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Classical methods in natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mina Abbaszade , Mariam Zomorodi , Vahid Salari , Philip Kurian

We propose Quantum-informed Tensor Adaptation (QuanTA), a novel, easy-to-implement, fine-tuning method with no inference overhead for large-scale pre-trained language models. By leveraging quantum-inspired methods derived from quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhuo Chen , Rumen Dangovski , Charlotte Loh , Owen Dugan , Di Luo , Marin Soljačić

Quantum computing and AI have found a fruitful intersection in the field of natural language processing. We focus on the recently proposed DisCoCirc framework for natural language, and propose a quantum adaptation, QDisCoCirc. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Tuomas Laakkonen , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Bob Coecke

Transformer models have achieved remarkable results in a wide range of applications. However, their scalability is hampered by the quadratic time and memory complexity of the self-attention mechanism concerning the sequence length. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yury Nahshan , Joseph Kampeas , Emir Haleva

Quantum machine learning is a promising direction for building more efficient and expressive models, particularly in domains where understanding complex, structured data is critical. We present the Quantum Graph Transformer (QGT), a hybrid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shamminuj Aktar , Andreas Bärtschi , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Stephan Eidenbenz
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