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Single-image super-resolution (SR) has achieved remarkable progress with deep learning, yet most approaches rely on distortion-oriented losses or heuristic perceptual priors, which often lead to a trade-off between fidelity and visual…

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Recent work has begun to explore the potential of parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) as general function approximators. In this work, we propose a quantum-classical deep network structure to enhance classical CNN model discriminability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Tong Dou , Guofeng Zhang , Wei Cui

In this study, we propose a novel architecture, the Quantum Pointwise Convolution, which incorporates pointwise convolution within a quantum neural network framework. Our approach leverages the strengths of pointwise convolution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 An Ning , Tai-Yue Li , Nan-Yow Chen

We propose the Quantum Graph Attention Network (QGAT), a hybrid graph neural network that integrates variational quantum circuits into the attention mechanism. At its core, QGAT employs strongly entangling quantum circuits with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 An Ning , Tai Yue Li , Nan Yow Chen

The self-attention mechanism, a cornerstone of Transformer-based state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, is largely heuristic-driven and fundamentally challenging to interpret. Establishing a robust theoretical foundation to explain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Laziz U. Abdullaev , Maksim Tkachenko , Tan M. Nguyen

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing have been predominantly driven by transformer-based architectures, which rely heavily on self-attention mechanisms to model relationships between tokens in a sequence. Similarly, the field of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Nikita Kuznetsov , Niyaz Ismagilov , Ernesto Campos

We demonstrate that quantum vision transformers (QViTs), vision transformers (ViTs) with self-attention (SA) mechanisms replaced by quantum self-attention (QSA) mechanisms, can match state-of-the-art (SOTA) biomedical image classifiers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Thomas Boucher , John Whittle , Evangelos B. Mazomenos

Artificial neural networks have achieved great success in many fields ranging from image recognition to video understanding. However, its high requirements for computing and memory resources have limited further development on processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Yanxuan Lü , Qing Gao , Jinhu Lü , Maciej Ogorzałek , Jin Zheng

In the field of quantum machine learning (QML), parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) -- constructed using a combination of fixed and tunable quantum gates -- provide a promising hybrid framework for tackling complex machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Grier M. Jones , Viki Kumar Prasad , Ulrich Fekl , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Product quantisation (PQ) is a classical method for scalable vector encoding, yet it has seen limited usage for latent representations in high-fidelity image generation. In this work, we introduce PQGAN, a quantised image autoencoder that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Denis Zavadski , Nikita Philip Tatsch , Carsten Rother

The automated design of parameterized quantum circuits for variational algorithms in the NISQ era faces a fundamental limitation, as conventional differentiable architecture search relies on classical models that fail to adequately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Yuxiang Liu , Sixuan Li , Fanxu Meng , Zaichen Zhang , Xutao Yu

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

The resurgence of self-supervised learning, whereby a deep learning model generates its own supervisory signal from the data, promises a scalable way to tackle the dramatically increasing size of real-world data sets without human…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ben Jaderberg , Lewis W. Anderson , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie , Martin Kiffner , Dieter Jaksch

In this work, we aim to learn an unpaired image enhancement model, which can enrich low-quality images with the characteristics of high-quality images provided by users. We propose a quality attention generative adversarial network (QAGAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

In this paper we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) framework to enhance the perceptual quality of compressed videos. Our framework includes attention and adaptation to different quantization parameters (QPs) in a single model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Saiping Zhang , Luis Herranz , Marta Mrak , Marc Gorriz Blanch , Shuai Wan , Fuzheng Yang

We introduce Quantum Graph Attention Networks (QGATs) as trainable quantum encoders for inductive learning on graphs, extending the Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNN) framework. QGATs leverage parameterized quantum circuits to encode node…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Arthur M. Faria , Mehdi Djellabi , Igor O. Sokolov , Savvas Varsamopoulos

The rapid advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) have led to the emergence of quantum machine learning (QML), which integrates the strengths of both fields. Among QML approaches, variational quantum circuits…

Quantum computing crucially relies on the ability to efficiently characterize the quantum states output by quantum hardware. Conventional methods which probe these states through direct measurements and classically computed correlations…

We present a novel hybrid quantum-classical vision transformer architecture incorporating quantum orthogonal neural networks (QONNs) to enhance performance and computational efficiency in high-energy physics applications. Building on…

Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are a leading approach to quantum machine learning on near-term devices, yet it remains unclear which circuit architecture yields the best accuracy-parameter trade-off on classical tabular data. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo