The paper investigates how hardware noise influences the generalization ability of quantum circuit Born machines (QCBMs) trained with maximum mean discrepancy. It establishes that the generalization gap is bounded by the complexity of distributions reachable under any noise process, and shows that scrambled local Pauli noise reduces this complexity while biasing the model toward uniformity, thereby acting as a regularizer with an optimal intermediate strength. The authors introduce GENIE, a framework that implements a target noise level with capped error mitigation and dynamically selects the optimal noise during training using held‑out data, achieving provably bounded regret and outperforming fixed‑noise strategies in simulations on synthetic and census datasets.
By Hoang M. Ngo, Quan Nguyen, Jung Taek Seo, Wanli Xing, My T. Thai
arXiv:2607. 11095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial perturbations threaten machine learning classifiers, including variational quantum classifiers.
By Bacui Li, Chandra Thapa, Tansu Alpcan, Udaya Parampalli
Quantum MeanFlow (QMF) is a new quantum generative sampling method that enables single‑step sample generation by learning an average velocity field over a time interval, unlike the multi‑step quantum flow matching (QFM) which requires sequential integration of an ordinary differential equation. Using parameterized quantum circuits, the authors benchmark QMF and QFM on the MNIST dataset, finding that QMF produces lower image quality than multi‑step QFM but outperforms single‑step QFM at every shot count. Both models were executed on IBM quantum computers, and best‑of‑N rejection sampling mitigates device noise without circuit modification, demonstrating QMF’s practicality for efficient single‑step quantum generative sampling.
By Ashish Joshi, Eshaan Mistry, Takahiko Koyama
arXiv:2604. 06135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient data loading remains a bottleneck for near-term quantum machine learning.
By Basil Kyriacou, Viktoria Patapovich, Maniraman Periyasamy, Alexey Melnikov
arXiv:2608.24229v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Quantum noise is expected to degrade quantum machine learning by driving circuits away from their noiseless implementations. Yet recent studies show...
By Ziyu Zhang, Zikang Jia, Xiaosong Li, Yulong Dong
The paper presents two physics-inspired protocols for quantum diffusion models (QDMs) in generative AI. The first protocol employs quantum stochastic walks, combining quantum and classical dynamics to produce MNIST image sets with lower Fréchet Inception Distance than purely classical dynamics. The second protocol uses the intrinsic noise of real IBM quantum hardware with only four qubits to generate images, suggesting that quantum noise can be exploited as a resource rather than mitigated.
By Marco Parigi, Stefano Martina, Francesco Aldo Venturelli, Filippo Caruso
arXiv:2606. 19947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable quantum control in the presence of decoherence requires policies that combat the effect of environmental noise on the controlled dynamics.
By Merijn Moody, Zier Mensch, Miranda C. N. Cheng, Peter G. Bolhuis, Max Welling
arXiv:2401. 07039v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixed quantum states are the native description of many physically important quantum systems, making their generation a fundamental task in quantum information processing.
By Chuangtao Chen, Qinglin Zhao, MengChu Zhou, Zhimin He, Zhili Sun, Haozhen Situ
arXiv:2606. 28833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum kernel estimation on near-term hardware is shot-budgeted: every entry of the kernel Gram matrix is a Bernoulli expectation that must be sampled with a finite number of circuit executions.
By Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, Qibin Zhao
Circuit cutting lets a large quantum neural network (QNN) run as independent subcircuits on small devices, but rebuilding its outputs by reconstruction carries a classical sampling overhead exponential in the number of cuts - the dominant runtime cost in prior work. We ask whether, for machine-learning tasks, this step is necessary, and replace it with late fusion: each subcircuit is trained and measured independently, and a small classical head combines their outputs - a linear-cost, decision-level combination borrowed from multimodal learning.
The paper studies how to allocate a fixed computational budget across the denoising steps of diffusion models to improve sample quality at deployment. It shows that the expected benefit of evaluating multiple candidates at a step can be decomposed into a step‑specific sensitivity and a universal sample‑size factor, and that the optimal allocation follows a water‑filling structure. Experiments demonstrate that this allocation achieves the same quality as a uniform strategy while reducing function evaluations by 20–50%.
By Yuan Cao, Yifu Tang, Hangqi Li, Zeyu Zheng
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