arXiv:2607. 17872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Circuit cutting promises to scale quantum computations beyond current hardware, but variational quantum advantage also requires low cutting overhead, classical hardness, and trainability.
By Maria Gragera Garces, Sabina Dr\u{a}goi, Lirand\"e Pira
arXiv:2607. 16800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading paradigm for near-term quantum computing, yet their training suffers from sensitivity to circuit depth, initialization, and landscape pathologies such as barren plateaus.
By Athanasios Hadjidimoulas, Tirthak Patel, Anastasios Kyrillidis
arXiv:2608. 03962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and generation.
By Srinivasan Arunachalam, Arkopal Dutt, Hari Krovi, Rik Sengupta
Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and generation. We prove unconditional separations between low-depth quantum computation and the corresponding bounded-resource classical language-model architectures in both regimes.
arXiv:2607. 24686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational quantum circuits have been central to many proposed near-term applications of quantum computing, but a growing body of evidence suggests that trainability and quantum advantage are fundamentally at odds: ans\"atze expressive enough to resist efficient classical simulation tend to exhibit barren plateaus, while structures that provably rule out barren plateaus typically render them classically simulable.
By Nikhil Khatri, Stefan Zohren, Gabriel Matos
arXiv:2607. 06230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are increasingly used as policies and value functions in quantum reinforcement learning, yet it remains unclear when and why quantum policies generalize.
By Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
arXiv:2410. 17397v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a framework for seamlessly integrating quantum computing into pretrained large language models (LLMs).
By Borja Aizpurua, Fernando Loren, Saeed S. Jahromi, Sukhbinder Singh, Roman Orus
arXiv:2602. 05541v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in compute-intensive tasks and a key component of modern quantum acceleration frameworks.
By Jiaqi Yao, Tianjian Huang, Tonghe Zhang, Ding Liu
The paper proves that training a binary quantized neural network (2-QNNT) is W[1]-hard when parameterized solely by the sum of input and output dimensions, α+ω. This hardness result holds even for zero training error on a specially constructed dataset where each input equals its target and the examples form a coordinate‑wise prefix chain. The proof reduces from DAG edge‑disjoint paths, employing a one‑flip routing equivalence that links activation transitions to vertex‑disjoint paths in the network.
By Tao Jiang, Minbo Gao, Shaowei Cai
Bridge of Ψ's (BOPS) is a generative model that learns to transform quantum circuits into equivalent, optimized versions using Schr"odinger bridges and a custom denoiser architecture. Trained on data engineered to challenge existing optimizers, BOPS achieves a 2.46× reduction in gate count and a 2.45× reduction in depth on 8‑qubit, 64‑depth Clifford+$T$ circuits, outperforming nine baseline optimizers. This work demonstrates the first successful application of generative machine learning to quantum circuit optimization, expanding the quantum compilation stack with learned techniques.
By Lino S. Hofstetter, Lia Yeh, Prakash Murali
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
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