The paper investigates the use of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) in hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL). It shows that a hybrid HRL agent incorporating a quantum feature extractor can outperform classical baselines with fewer parameters, but using VQCs for option-value estimation hampers learning. The study also explores how different quantum circuit designs influence performance and proposes design principles for efficient hybrid HRL agents.
By Yu-Ting Lee, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Fu-Chieh Chang
arXiv:2406. 07884v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using partial knowledge of a quantum state to control multiqubit entanglement is a largely unexplored paradigm in the emerging field of quantum interactive dynamics with the potential to address outstanding challenges in quantum state preparation and compression, quantum control, and quantum complexity.
By Pavel Tashev, Stefan Petrov, Matthew T. Diaz, Friederike Metz, Alaina M. Green, Norbert M. Linke, Marin Bukov
The paper introduces GenQAS, a tensor‑network‑guided reinforcement learning framework that uses a learned local transition model to generate synthetic circuit transitions for prioritized generative replay. By mixing these synthetic transitions with real experience during Double Deep Q‑Network updates, GenQAS addresses sample starvation in quantum architecture search. Experiments on chemical Hamiltonian benchmarks up to 12 qubits and a 15‑qubit Ising model show significant improvements in success probability and circuit compactness, while a noisy 6‑qubit BeH₂ transfer experiment demonstrates a 92.7% reduction in steps to chemical accuracy.
The paper introduces GenQAS, a tensor network‑guided reinforcement learning framework that uses a learned local transition model to generate synthetic circuit transitions for prioritized generative replay. By mixing these synthetic transitions with real experience during Double Deep Q‑Network updates, GenQAS addresses sample starvation in quantum architecture search. Across benchmarks ranging from 6 to 15 qubits, the method improves success probabilities, identifies compact circuits, and reduces steps to chemical accuracy by up to 92.7%.
By Akash Kundu, Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Sebastian Feld, Prayag Tiwari
arXiv:2510. 12430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translating a general quantum circuit on a specific hardware topology with a reduced set of available gates, also known as transpilation, comes with a substantial increase in the length of the equivalent circuit.
By Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, Christoph Hirche
arXiv:2607. 02292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and scalable framework for approximating quantum many-body wavefunctions.
By Juan Agust\'in Duque, Sergio Garc\'ia Heredia, Vinicius Hernandes, Eli\v{s}ka Greplov\'a, Thomas Spriggs, Aaron Courville, Anna Dawid
Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and scalable framework for approximating quantum many-body wavefunctions. Among NQS parameterizations, autoregressive models are especially attractive because they enable exact, independent sampling from the Born distribution, avoiding the autocorrelation and mixing issues of Markov chain methods.
arXiv:2608. 02826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that studies how an agent interacts with an environment in order to extract as large a reward as possible.
By Joao F. Doriguello
arXiv:2607. 29491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement-learning-based quantum architecture search (RL-QAS) repeatedly optimizes a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) after extending a circuit, although circuit construction and action legality are deterministic and known.
By Jiayang Niu, Yan Wang, Jie Li, Ke Deng, Azadeh Alavi, Muhammad Usman, Yongli Ren
arXiv:2607. 09422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning is well suited to problems with large parameter spaces and exploitable local structure, such as the tuning of electrostatically-defined quantum-dot arrays.
By Edwin De Nicolo, Rahul Marchand, Cornelius Carlsson, Pranav Vaidhyanathan, Natalia Ares
arXiv:2605. 27410v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading approach to exploiting near-term quantum hardware, leveraging parameterized quantum circuits and classical optimization to achieve advantage.
By Tung Dao, Son N. Tran, Huynh Thi Thanh Binh
arXiv:2511. 12482v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum error correction is essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
By Yue Yin, Tailong Xiao, Xiaoyang Deng, Ming He, Jianping Fan, Guihua Zeng