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Quantization Neural Networks (QNN) have attracted a lot of attention due to their high efficiency. To enhance the quantization accuracy, prior works mainly focus on designing advanced quantization algorithms but still fail to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mingzhu Shen , Feng Liang , Ruihao Gong , Yuhang Li , Chuming Li , Chen Lin , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Achieving quantum speedups in practical tasks remains challenging for current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. These devices always encounter significant obstacles such as inevitable physical errors and the limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Riki Toshio , Yutaro Akahoshi , Jun Fujisaki , Hirotaka Oshima , Shintaro Sato , Keisuke Fujii

This paper introduces a noise-aware distributed Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) tailored for execution on near-term quantum hardware. Leveraging a distributed framework, we address the limitations of current Noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Kuan-Cheng Chen , Xiatian Xu , Felix Burt , Chen-Yu Liu , Shang Yu , Kin K Leung

The preparation of data in quantum states is a critical component in the design of quantum algorithms. The cost of this step can significantly limit the realization of quantum advantage in domains such as machine learning, finance, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alessandro Berti , Francesco Ghisoni

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference. Emergent DNN hardware accelerators begin to support mixed precision (1-8 bits) to further improve the computation efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin , Ji Lin , Song Han

We propose SnCQA, a set of hardware-efficient variational circuits of equivariant quantum convolutional circuits respective to permutation symmetries and spatial lattice symmetries with the number of qubits $n$. By exploiting permutation…

Variational quantum algorithms are considered one of the most promising methods for obtaining near-term quantum advantages; however, most of these algorithms are only expressed in the conventional quantum circuit scheme. The roadblock to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Zheng Qin , Xiufan Li , Yang Zhou , Shikun Zhang , Rui Li , Chunxiao Du , Zhisong Xiao

Performing efficient quantum computer tuneup and calibration is essential for growth in system complexity. In this work we explore the link between facilitating such capabilities and the underlying architecture of the physical hardware. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Riddhi S. Gupta , Luke C. G. Govia , Michael J. Biercuk

Near-term quantum computers are accessed through repeated circuit executions, which produce finite measurement records rather than exact deterministic outputs. In quantum reservoir computing, these records are converted to feature vectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Markus Baumann , Maximilian Zorn , Thomas Gabor , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien , Jonas Stein

We introduce a low-overhead technique for quantum error mitigation based on post-selection using auxiliary qubit measurements. The method exploits the structural property that, in an error-free computation, auxiliary qubits are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Gilad Kishony , Avi Elazari , Ron Cohen , Lior Gazit

Approximating the $k$-th spectral gap $\Delta_k=|\lambda_k-\lambda_{k+1}|$ and the corresponding midpoint $\mu_k=\frac{\lambda_k+\lambda_{k+1}}{2}$ of an $N\times N$ Hermitian matrix with eigenvalues…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Aleksandros Sobczyk

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a promising quantum algorithm for obtaining molecular ground-state energies with chemical accuracy. However, its computational cost, dominated by the Hamiltonian 1-norm $\lambda$ and the cost of the block…

This work studies the feasibility of applying quantum kernel methods to a real consumer classification task in the NISQ regime. We present a hybrid pipeline that combines a quantum-kernel Support Vector Machine (Q-SVM) with a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Laura Sáez-Ortuño , Santiago Forgas-Coll , Massimiliano Ferrara

This paper presents a federated learning framework secured by quantum key distribution (QKD) for wireless channel estimation and radar spectrum sensing in the next generation networks (NextG or Beyond 6G). A BB84-style protocol abstraction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Jungwon Seo , Umit Cali

Kernel methods are a cornerstone of classical machine learning. The idea of using quantum computers to compute kernels has recently attracted attention. Quantum embedding kernels (QEKs) constructed by embedding data into the Hilbert space…

We perform a detailed resource estimate for the prospect of using deep entanglement renormalization ansatz (DMERA) on a fault-tolerant quantum computer, focusing on the regime in which the target system is large. For probing a relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Joshua Job , Isaac H. Kim , Eric Johnston , Steve Adachi

New quantum computing architectures consider integrating qubits as sensors to provide actionable information useful for decoherence mitigation on neighboring data qubits, but little work has addressed how such schemes may be efficiently…

The rapid progress in quantum computing has opened up new possibilities for tackling complex scientific problems. Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) holds the potential to solve quantum chemistry problems and achieve quantum advantages.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Linghua Zhu , Senwei Liang , Chao Yang , Xiaosong Li

We analyse three KV cache quantization schemes under a fair bit budget: \textbf{KV} (scalar MSE baseline), \textbf{KQV} (WHT + MSE on $K$; WHT + MSE + QJL on $V$), and \textbf{QKQV} (WHT + MSE + QJL on both). Starting from the Beta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Paolo D'Alberto