arXiv Machine Learning

Quantum SEDONet: Spectrally-Embedded Quantum Deep Operator Networks for Partial Differential Equations

Quantum SEDONet is a quantum-enhanced deep operator network that embeds spectral features—Fourier for periodic coordinates and Chebyshev for bounded, non‑periodic coordinates—directly into the trunk network. This coordinate‑wise spectral embedding is achieved without adding qubits or circuit depth under unary amplitude encoding, and it reduces mean relative L2 error by up to 54.1% across four PDE benchmarks compared to the baseline Quantum DeepONet. The method demonstrates that quantum and classical inference paths agree to within 10⁻⁸, and it allows simultaneous use of both spectral bases within a single problem, as shown in a mixed‑boundary Poisson channel example.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Tailor Made Embeddings for Quantum Machine Learning

arXiv:2606. 26312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoencoders transformed classical machine learning by solving the curse of dimensionality, enabling principled weight initialization and learning compact, structured representations.

By Aldo Lamarre, Dominik \v{S}afr\'anek
arXiv AI
Sep 17

QiT: Quantum-Inspired Transformer for Visual Recognition Task

QiT is a Quantum‑Inspired Transformer designed for visual recognition tasks. It replaces quantum neural network concepts with scalable classical operations: angle‑inspired encoding of image tokens, self‑attention over periodic features approximating quantum fidelity kernels, and gated multiplicative emulation of variational circuit interactions. The model achieves competitive performance on image‑classification benchmarks, matching a classical Transformer while avoiding the high runtime costs of simulated quantum models.

By Badri N. Patro, Vijay Agneeswaran
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Edge-Local and Qubit-Efficient Quantum Graph Learning for the NISQ Era

arXiv:2602. 16018v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful framework for learning representations from graph-structured data, but their direct implementation on near-term quantum hardware remains challenging due to circuit depth, multi-qubit interactions, and qubit scalability constraints.

By Armin Ahmadkhaniha, Jake Doliskani
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Trainability-Oriented Hybrid Quantum Regression via Geometric Preconditioning and Curriculum Optimization

The paper introduces a hybrid quantum–classical regression framework that uses a lightweight classical embedding as a learnable geometric preconditioner to improve the conditioning of a downstream variational quantum circuit. It further incorporates a curriculum optimization protocol that gradually increases circuit depth and switches from SPSA-based exploration to Adam-based fine‑tuning. Experiments on PDE‑informed and standard regression datasets show that this approach consistently outperforms pure QNN baselines, yielding more stable convergence and reduced structured errors, especially in data‑limited regimes.

By Qingyu Meng, Yangshuai Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Neural Fourier Surrogates for Data Reuploading Quantum Neural Networks

The paper introduces Neural Fourier Surrogates (NFS), a stochastic classical neural network that learns coefficients over a finite Fourier series support similar to quantum neural networks (QNNs). By testing on tabular benchmark datasets, NFS demonstrates competitive classification performance against established classical baselines and data‑reuploading QNNs. The authors also compare the learned Fourier spectra of QNNs and NFS on synthetic data, positioning NFS as a natural classical baseline for evaluating QNN performance.

By Oliver Knitter, Jonathan Mei, Sang Hyub Kim, Chi Chen, Masako Yamada, Martin Roetteler