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An active area of investigation in the search for quantum advantage is Quantum Machine Learning. Quantum Machine Learning, and Parameterized Quantum Circuits in a hybrid quantum-classical setup in particular, could bring advancements in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Thomas Hubregtsen , Josef Pichlmeier , Patrick Stecher , Koen Bertels

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) is a low-complexity learning paradigm that combines the inherent dynamics of input-driven many-body quantum systems with classical learning techniques for nonlinear temporal data processing. Optimizing the…

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The Variational Quantum Linear Solver (VQLS), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving linear systems, faces a practical scalability bottleneck: the Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU) decomposition requires O(L^2) circuit…

Quantum error correction is essential for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, most typical quantum error-correcting codes are designed for generic noise models, which may fail to accurately capture the intricate noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yuguo Shao , Yong-Chang Li , Fuchuan Wei , Hao Zhan , Ben Wang , Zhaohui Wei , Lijian Zhang , Zhengwei Liu

In the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, using variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) to solve optimization problems has become a key application. However, these algorithms face significant challenges, such as choosing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Junyong Lee , JeiHee Cho , Shiho Kim

Conventional Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) for Quantum Machine Learning typically rely on a fixed Hermitian observable, often built from Pauli operators. Inspired by the Heisenberg picture, we propose an adaptive non-local measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Hsin-Yi Lin , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Shinjae Yoo

Exploring an efficient and scalable architecture of fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) is vital for demonstrating useful quantum computing. Here, we propose and evaluate a scalable and practical architecture with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Rui Asaoka , Yasunari Suzuki , Yuuki Tokunaga

Quantum computing and machine learning have potential for symbiosis. However, in addition to the hardware limitations from current devices, there are still basic issues that must be addressed before quantum circuits can usefully incorporate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Fabio Sanches , Sean Weinberg , Takanori Ide , Kazumitsu Kamiya

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are widely speculated to deliver quantum advantages for practical problems under the quantum-classical hybrid computational paradigm in the near term. Both theoretical and practical developments of VQAs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Hong Yao

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are expected to be a path to quantum advantages on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, both empirical and theoretical results exhibit that the deployed ansatz heavily affects the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Yuxuan Du , Tao Huang , Shan You , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

The recent exploding growth in size of state-of-the-art machine learning models highlights a well-known issue where exponential parameter growth, which has grown to trillions as in the case of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Ethan N. Evans , Matthew Cook , Zachary P. Bradshaw , Margarite L. LaBorde

In this paper, we have studied the performance and role of local optimizers in quantum variational circuits. We studied the performance of the two most popular optimizers and compared their results with some popular classical machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Nisheeth Joshi , Pragya Katyayan , Syed Afroz Ahmed

The public access to noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers facilitated by IBM, Rigetti, D-Wave, etc., has propelled the development of quantum applications that may offer quantum supremacy in the future large-scale quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Mahabubul Alam , Abdullah Ash-Saki , Swaroop Ghosh

Recent days have witnessed significant interests in applying quantum-enhanced techniques for solving a variety of machine learning tasks. Variational methods that use quantum resources of imperfect quantum devices with the help of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Hiroshi Yano , Yudai Suzuki , Kohei M. Itoh , Rudy Raymond , Naoki Yamamoto

In dynamic quantum circuits, classical information from mid-circuit measurements is fed forward during circuit execution. This emerging capability of quantum computers confers numerous advantages that can enable more efficient and powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Elisa Bäumer , Vinay Tripathi , Alireza Seif , Daniel Lidar , Derek S. Wang

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have been successfully applied to quantum approximate optimization algorithms, variational quantum compiling and quantum machine learning models. The performances of VQAs largely depend on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Zhimin He , Chuangtao Chen , Lvzhou Li , Shenggen Zheng , Haozhen Situ

This paper explores the application of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) for solving offline contextual bandit problems in industrial optimization tasks. Using the Industrial Benchmark (IB) environment, we evaluate the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Lukas Schulte , Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Thomas A. Runkler

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for building scalable quantum computers, but a lack of systematic, end-to-end evaluation methods makes it difficult to assess how different QEC codes perform under realistic conditions. The vast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Aleksandra Świerkowska , Jannik Pflieger , Emmanouil Giortamis , Pramod Bhatotia

In quantum computing, the variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are well suited for finding optimal combinations of things in specific applications ranging from chemistry all the way to finance. The training of VQAs with gradient descent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Pinaki Sen , Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Kamalpreet Singh Bhangu , Ahmed Elbeltagi

Transformers have been proven a successful model for a variety of tasks in sequence modeling. However, computing the attention matrix, which is their key component, has quadratic complexity with respect to the sequence length, thus making…

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