arXiv Machine Learning

A Quantum/Classical Example Oracle Separation for Making Things Up

arXiv:2608. 11648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the power of quantum examples, as compared to classical examples, in the PAC learning framework.

arXiv AI
Jul 8

Provable learning separation for predicting time-evolution of quantum many-body systems

arXiv:2607. 06472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given that quantum computers are naturally suited to simulate the behavior of quantum many-body systems, an immediate question arises: can one formulate physically motivated quantum machine learning (QML) tasks that exhibit learning separations?

By Rahul Bandyopadhyay, Riccardo Molteni, Jens Eisert, Vedran Dunjko, Sofiene Jerbi
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 7

Provable learning separation for predicting time-evolution of quantum many-body systems

Given that quantum computers are naturally suited to simulate the behavior of quantum many-body systems, an immediate question arises: can one formulate physically motivated quantum machine learning (QML) tasks that exhibit learning separations? We address this problem by studying the learnability of quantum many-body dynamics from the perspective of probably approximately correct (PAC)-learning.

arXiv Statistics ML
3d ago

Advantage of Sample Complexity in Quantum PAC Learning Requires Inverse Access to State-Preparation Unitaries

The paper investigates whether having only forward access to a state-preparation unitary—without its inverse—can reduce the number of queries needed for quantum PAC learning. By analyzing worst-case scenarios over all compatible unitaries and finite dimensions, the authors prove that the optimal forward-only query complexities for realizable and agnostic learning are θ((d+log(1/δ))/ε) and θ((d+log(1/δ))/ε²), respectively, matching classical and quantum-copy bounds. These results demonstrate that forward-only access offers no asymptotic advantage over classical data or quantum copies, highlighting the essential role of inverse access for any improvement in the realizable setting.

By Natsuto Isogai, Satoshi Yoshida, Mio Murao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Interactive proofs for verifying (quantum) learning and testing

The paper investigates whether a learner or tester with limited resources can improve performance by interacting with an untrusted, resource‑unconstrained party. It shows that for many scenarios, classical interaction offers no advantage, especially for memory‑constrained quantum algorithms. However, when quantum communication is permitted, interactive proof protocols enable memory‑constrained quantum verifiers to achieve significant gains through delegation.

By Matthias C. Caro, Jens Eisert, Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou, Alexander Nietner, Ryan Sweke
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Optimal Quantum-Classical Separations for Exact Learning

arXiv:2609.38073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study exact learning with membership queries for concept classes $\mathcal C\subseteq\{0,1\}^N$, focusing on the relationships among their determi...

By Srinivasan Arunachalam, Amin Shiraz Gilani, Nikhil S. Mande
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

Is data-efficient learning feasible with quantum models?

arXiv:2508. 19437v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The importance of analyzing nontrivial datasets when testing quantum machine learning (QML) models is becoming increasingly prominent in literature, yet a cohesive framework for understanding dataset characteristics remains elusive.

By Alona Sakhnenko, Christian B. Mendl, Jeanette M. Lorenz
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Bernstein-Vazirani Networks: Quantum Machine Learning by Interference

The paper introduces Bernstein‑Vazirani Networks (BVNs), a non‑variational quantum machine‑learning framework that uses quantum interference for supervised learning. BVNs operate by placing labelled data into superposition and performing interference in the Fourier basis to extract globally informative features, and they can be generalized to use problem‑adapted bases for greater expressiveness. The authors demonstrate that BVNs can achieve universal function approximation with gradient‑free training, and report strong generalisation and competitive performance on synthetic and real‑world classification tasks as well as implicit image representation.

By Natacha Kuete Meli, Tolga Birdal, Prayag Tiwari, Vladislav Golyanik, Michael Moeller
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Higher-Order Token Interactions via Quantum Attention

arXiv:2606. 11673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard dot-product self-attention computes, in a single layer, only pairwise (order-2) interactions between tokens; representing a generic order-$k$ interaction is known to require either super-quadratic resources in one layer or composition across depth.

By Jian Xu, Chao Li, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao