arXiv Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning for Syndrome Extraction

The paper presents a reinforcement learning approach to the subtask of quantum error correction known as syndrome extraction. By combining reinforcement learning with importance sampling, the authors achieve lower logical error rates across all tested scales compared to existing tools AlphaSyndrome and PropHunt. Their method reduces logical error rates by 25.9% and 71.7% on average, reaching a 97.8% reduction for a surface code of distance 15.

arXiv AI
Sep 11

Reinforcement learning for Quantum Tiq-Taq-Toe

Quantum Tiq‑Taq‑Toe is a popular benchmark for quantum computing and machine learning, yet no reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been applied to it. The paper introduces RL techniques for this game, which is simpler than Quantum Chess but still challenging due to partial observability and exponential state complexity. States are represented by a 3×3 measurement matrix and a 9×9 move‑history matrix of entanglement relations, making strategy development difficult because each move can collapse the quantum state.

By Catalin-Viorel Dinu, Thomas Moerland
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Quantum Bayesian Networks Can Speed up Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Environments

arXiv:2507. 18606v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for decision-making in partially observable environments, which can be modeled as Markov decision processes and compactly represented through dynamic decision Bayesian networks.

By Gilberto Cunha, Alexandra Ram\^oa, Andr\'e Sequeira, Michael de Oliveira, Lu\'is Barbosa
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Quantum enhanced rare event discovery and sampling

arXiv:2606. 06316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial crashes, cascading failures in infrastructure, and critical errors in AI systems are frequently triggered by events that occur with extremely small probability.

By Naixu Guo, Po-Wei Huang, Qisheng Wang, Jayne Thompson, Patrick Rebentrost, Mile Gu, Chengran Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

QuantumMind: Constraint-Grounded Agentic Reasoning for Speedup Analysis in Quantum Computing

arXiv:2608. 07743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying a meaningful quantum speedup requires more than matching a classical problem to a familiar quantum primitive: the claim must preserve the task, respect access and output models, expose required promises, and remain within a defensible complexity scope.

By Yijing Zuo, Zhe Fu, Zihan Nie, Zhihui Zhu, Haohan Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 3

DreamQAS: Learning a Decision-Useful World Model for VQE-Efficient Quantum Architecture Search

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