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Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

Nowadays, model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have achieved remarkable performance on many decision making and control tasks, but high sample complexity and low sample efficiency still hinder the wide use of model-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jingbin Liu , Xinyang Gu , Shuai Liu

A reinforcement learning (RL) framework is introduced for the efficient synthesis of quantum circuits that generate specified target quantum states from a fixed initial state, addressing a central challenge in both the Noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Sara Giordano , Kornikar Sen , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Achieving mission objectives in a realistic simulation of aerial combat is highly challenging due to imperfect situational awareness and nonlinear flight dynamics. In this work, we introduce a novel 3D multi-agent air combat environment and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ardian Selmonaj , Giacomo Del Rio , Adrian Schneider , Alessandro Antonucci

Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have been developed to optimize industrial cooling systems, offering substantial energy savings compared to traditional heuristic policies. A major challenge in industrial control involves learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 William Wong , Praneet Dutta , Octavian Voicu , Yuri Chervonyi , Cosmin Paduraru , Jerry Luo

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) focuses on determining conflict-free paths for multiple agents navigating through a shared space to reach specified goal locations. This problem becomes computationally challenging, particularly when handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Thore Gerlach , Loong Kuan Lee , Frédéric Barbaresco , Nico Piatkowski

Quantum machine learning has established as an interdisciplinary field to overcome limitations of classical machine learning and neural networks. This is a field of research which can prove that quantum computers are able to solve problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Meghashrita Das , Tirupati Bolisetti

The Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) has impressive reasoning abilities given its small size, but has only been applied to supervised, static, fully-observable problems. One of HRM's strengths is its ability to adapt its computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Long H Dang , David Rawlinson

The online advertising market, with its thousands of auctions run per second, presents a daunting challenge for advertisers who wish to optimize their spend under a budget constraint. Thus, advertising platforms typically provide automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Dmytro Korenkevych , Frank Cheng , Artsiom Balakir , Alex Nikulkov , Lingnan Gao , Zhihao Cen , Zuobing Xu , Zheqing Zhu

We utilize hybrid quantum deep reinforcement learning to learn navigation tasks for a simple, wheeled robot in simulated environments of increasing complexity. For this, we train parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) with two different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hans Hohenfeld , Dirk Heimann , Felix Wiebe , Frank Kirchner

Whether uniquely quantum resources confer advantages in fully classical, competitive environments remains an open question. Competitive zero-sum reinforcement learning is particularly challenging, as success requires modelling dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Peiyong Wang , Kieran Hymas , James Quach

Quantum hardware and quantum-inspired algorithms are becoming increasingly popular for combinatorial optimization. However, these algorithms may require careful hyperparameter tuning for each problem instance. We use a reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Dmitrii Beloborodov , A. E. Ulanov , Jakob N. Foerster , Shimon Whiteson , A. I. Lvovsky

Cognitive Psychology and related disciplines have identified several critical mechanisms that enable intelligent biological agents to learn to solve complex problems. There exists pressing evidence that the cognitive mechanisms that enable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Manfred Eppe , Christian Gumbsch , Matthias Kerzel , Phuong D. H. Nguyen , Martin V. Butz , Stefan Wermter

This study presents a novel computer system performance optimization and adaptive workload management scheduling algorithm based on Q-learning. In modern computing environments, characterized by increasing data volumes, task complexity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Pochun Li , Yuyang Xiao , Jinghua Yan , Xuan Li , Xiaoye Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated immense potential in synthesizing diverse and high-fidelity images. However, critical questions remain unanswered regarding how quantum principles might best enhance their…

General purpose agents will require large repertoires of skills. Empowerment -- the maximum mutual information between skills and states -- provides a pathway for learning large collections of distinct skills, but mutual information is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Andrew Levy , Sreehari Rammohan , Alessandro Allievi , Scott Niekum , George Konidaris

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is considered to be one of the most promising applications of near term quantum devices. However, the optimization of quantum machine learning models presents numerous challenges arising from the imperfections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Owen Lockwood

In the field of quantum computing, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a pivotal category of quantum solutions across a broad spectrum of applications. These algorithms demonstrate significant potential for realising quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Abhishek Sadhu , Aritra Sarkar , Akash Kundu

Models based on vision transformer architectures are considered state-of-the-art when it comes to image classification tasks. However, they require extensive computational resources both for training and deployment. The problem is…

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) is an emerging paradigm for harnessing the natural dynamics of quantum systems as computational resources that can be used for temporal machine learning tasks. In the current setup, QRC is difficult to deal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Quoc Hoan Tran , Kohei Nakajima